When I read articles about carbon footprint labeling, carbon emission measurement tools, and sustainability reporting, the focus tends to be on what the company in question is measuring: what product, which parts of the supply chain, and over what time period. But now that so many are in the game, the rules are starting to change. The new focus is the breadth and depth of the measurement: the breadth of what is being measured (are direct and indirect energy, materials, capital goods, and business travel included?), and the depth to which the footprint is measured (are material extraction, transformation, distribution, use, disposal and recycling all taken into account?) What once looked a fairly straightforward proposal - how much does the vessel emit, how many products on the vessel, divide one by the other - becomes a complicated, long-winded, and expensive prospect.

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Author: Katharine O'Reilly / Editor / Green Logistics News

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Fuel Prices flip airlines belly-up

2008 is not a good year for US-based airlines. A week after Aloha Airlines announced it would cease all passenger operations, ATA Airlines filed for bankruptcy, Skybus Airlines shut its doors and Northwest Airlines announced plans to reduce capacity.

(4/7/2008)

Whilst these are all essentially passenger airlines, they also offer cargo capacity.

After struggling to overcome the combination of rising jet fuel costs and a slowing economic environment, Skybus Airlines ceased all operations, effective Saturday April 5th.

Northwest Airlines' management has announced plans to reduce capacity and the number of aircraft, also citing high fuel costs and economic uncertainties.

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Author: Sharon Gill / News Editor / eyefortransport

Desire to be thought leaders drives green efforts

Forty-one percent of companies that participated in a recent Aberdeen study, Building a Green Supply Chain: Social Responsibility for Fun and Profit, have had green supply chain initiatives in place for 1-2 years, and thirty-nine percent have redesigned key parts of their supply chains to be green.

(4/3/2008)

Against this backdrop, the top four pressures driving companies to focus on green/sustainable supply chain programs today are the desire to be a thought leader for green and sustainability initiatives in their industry and markets (51% of companies), the need to control rising fuel and energy costs (49% of companies), the demands to improve competitive advantage and market differentiation (48% of companies), followed by the requirement to meet current and expected government regulatory and compliance demands (31% of companies).

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Author: Environmental Leader / environmentalleader.com

Transport industry least prepared for climate change

Aviation, healthcare, tourism, transport, oil and gas and the financial services sector all feature in the "danger zone" in a report on climate change risks from KPMG - meaning that they score highly on the risks which face them yet score poorly in terms of their preparedness to face these risks.

(4/8/2008)

The climate change risks that companies should be paying more attention to are physical, regulatory and reputational risks as well as the emerging risk of litigation; yet the scope and potential impact of these risks appears to be under-estimated across all sectors.

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Author: Environmental Leader / environmentalleader.com

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