by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Scope 3 emissions are indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across a company’s value chain and typically account for the largest share of corporate carbon footprints. Yet they remain the least consistently reported. In their recent longitudinal study, Bauer et al. (2026) examine how Scope 3 reporting has developed among 469 global logistics companies between 2020 …
On behalf of the Austrian Post, the Federal Environment Agency analyzed the climate effects of online and stationary retail purchases. In addition, the economic impact of national and international online retailing was examined. The result: climate-friendly parcel delivery offers potential savings in greenhouse gas emissions. If customers also use domestic online retailers, this positively affects …
Delivery shame? Delivery pride! Anyone concerned about the environment will order online from now on. This is two to three times less harmful to the environment than going to the store yourself. Reports on the environmental impact of e-commerce are based on solid research. Researchers agree that there is no reason for concern from a …
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the growth of e-commerce and automated warehouses, vehicles, and robots and has created new options for grocery supply chains. As shoppers searched for safe and convenient ways to get essential items, grocers adapted to meet increased e-commerce demand. Micro-fulfillment center enabled grocers to quickly fill pickup orders, sometimes within an …
The burning of fossil fuels (coal, petrol, diesel, and wood) is a major source of airborne fine particulate matter (PM2.5), and a key contributor to the global burden of premature mortality and disease. Global Burden of Disease (GBD) reports only the health impacts of total PM2.5 and does not distinguish mortality from fossil-fuel derived PM2.5 and that …
Lots of attention has been given in recent years to the “massive” increase in delivery traffic in cities and residential districts. Web stores and the vans that deliver their parcels often get the blame for that. My neighbors wonder if it really can’t all just fit into one delivery van. They see PostNL, DHL, Albert …