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Fundamentals of Sustainable Logistics
Enrollment in this course is by invitation only
Learn the essentials of sustainable logistics and reducing your logistics emissions.
About This Course
This self-paced e-learning course covers all the essentials of sustainable logistics and reducing your emissions. This includes: calculating logistics emissions, setting science-based targets, implementing low-carbon solutions and how to engage with your logistics partners.
This course is aimed at creating awareness and introducing the key concepts of sustainable logistics. It is targeted at a broad audience of logistics, sustainability and freight stakeholders as it covers all the essentials that any logistics employee needs to know. This training can also serve as an onboarding exercise for any employee that is directly or indirectly linked to a company’s supply chain to better understand the concepts of sustainable logistics.
Course Overview
- Defining sustainable logistics and why it is a critical business focus.
- The key drivers and benefits of sustainable logistics.
- The business case for sustainable logistics and opportunities for action.
- The Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Climate Agreement, ESG, CSRD, SBTi, CDP and more global drivers for sustainability.
- Logistics emissions and logistics emissions accounting.
- The role of emissions accounting and the GLEC Framework.
- The benefits and complexity of multimodality.
- The role of collaborative logistics in logistics decarbonisation.
- Tools and methodologies for logistics emissions reduction.
Earn a Certificate of Completion (Upon completion of the course)
Requirements
No requirements needed to take this course | Level is introductory
Payment options
The course can only be paid via credit card in Euros(€).
Course Delivery
The course format is self-paced
Duration: 5-6 hours
Course providers
Smart Freight Center
The Smart Freight Centre Academy is the education and knowledge-hub of globally recognised NGO Smart Freight Centre, a leader in freight decarbonization practices, standards and frameworks.
International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations
FIATA is a reference source on international policies and regulations governing the freight forwarding and logistics industry. FIATA works at the international level to represent service providers who operate in trade logistics and supply chain management.