CO 2 emissions and logistics performance: a composite index proposal

Mariano, Enzo Barberio; Gobbo, José Alcides; Camioto, Flávia de Castro; Rebelatto, Daisy Aparecida do Nascimento

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.05.084

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“…Khan and Dong () concluded that people health has been compromised due to unsustainable industrialization. Mariano, Gobbo, de Castro Camioto, and do Nascimento Rebelatto () found that logistics operations is primarily responsible for climate change, global warming, and air pollution and confirmed that its volatility to attain “green” agenda that need to be controlled by economic policies to mitigate carbon emissions across the globe through usage of renewable energy and green practices in logistical operations. In addition, Maddala and Lahiri () and Tsoulfas and Pappis () suggest that governmental bodies should tackle the situation and realize their responsibilities to enforce strict environment‐friendly legislation, encourage biofuels and green energy in logistical operations, and impose huge financial and social penalties on polluted manufacturing and/or logistics firms.…”

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A green ideology in Asian emerging economies: From environmental policy and sustainable development

Khan

Sharif

Golpîra

et al. 2019

Sustainable Development

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This panel study investigates the relationship between green logistics indices, economic, environmental, and social factors in the perspective of Asian emerging economies. This study adopted Fully Modified OLS (FMOLS) Model and Dynamic OLS (DOLS) Model methods to test the research hypothesis, catering the problem of endogeneity and serial correlation. The results suggest that logistics operations, particularly LPI2 (efficiency of customs clearance processes), LPI4 (quality of logistics services), and LPI5 (trade and transport‐related infrastructure), are positively and significantly correlated with per capita income, manufacturing value added and trade openness, whereas greater logistics operations are negatively associated with social and environmental problems including, climate change, global warming, carbon emissions, and poisoning atmosphere. In addition, human health is badly affected by heavy smog, acid rainfall, and water pollution. The findings further extend and reveal that political instability, natural disaster, and terrorism are also a primary cause of poor economic growth and environmental sustainability with poor trade and logistics infrastructure. There is very limited empirical work presented in the literature using renewable energy and green ideology to solve macro‐level social and environmental problems, and this study will assist the policy makers and researchers to understand the importance of the green concept in improving countries' social, economic, and environmental performance.

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confidence: 89%

A green ideology in Asian emerging economies: From environmental policy and sustainable development

Khan

Sharif

Golpîra

et al. 2019

Sustainable Development

384

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“…Combined with Tables 1 and 2, it can be preliminarily concluded that the addition of an energy consumption indicator significantly affects the ELPI scores of some countries, such as Venezuela, RB. CO2 emissions from transport are highly correlated with GDP [14]. Due to the large differences in the economic development levels of countries around the world, it is unreasonable to directly use CO2 emissions to reflect the environmental efficiency of transportation.…”

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“…There were different views on the roles of the six components of the LPI in the input-output indicator system. All LPI were regarded as output indicators in some studies [14], while other studies divided LPI into inputs and outputs [13]. In this article, ELPI of the two cases are measured and compared.…”

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Green Transportation and Logistics Performance: An Improved Composite Index

Xie

Chen

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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This article constructs an environmental logistics performance index (ELPI) for assessing the overall performance in green transportation and logistics practices of 112 countries. The index is measured by logistics performance index (LPI), CO2 emissions and oil consumption from the transport sector, using a range-adjusted measure (RAM) of the data envelopment analysis (DEA). ELPI effectively reflects the tradeoff between logistics efficiency and environmental protection in transportation. This article analyzes the impact of income and region on ELPI scores and discusses those countries’ reduction potential in oil consumption intensity and carbon intensity. The main finding of the research work is that ELPI is strongly correlated with LPI, and countries with high performance in LPI generally perform well in ELPI. Similar to the characteristics of LPI, ELPI is also closely related to income and region. During our study period, high income countries performed best, while Sub-Saharan Africa countries performed worst. However, some exceptions such as Venezuela, RB and Benin, indicate that the level of development of logistics performance and green transportation can outperform or lag behind their income or region group peers.

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“…According to [1][2], reverse logistics could effectively address the environmental concerns and at the same time contribute to the increased competitiveness and greater marketing share. [3][4] documented that, despite its enormous burden on the natural resources and the harmful waste, the disposable packaging is still ubiquitous; and that the returnable packaging could reduce the packaging waste and provide the cost savings to businesses.…”

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The Operational, Economic and Environmental Benefits of Returnable Packaging Under Various Reverse Logistics Arrangements

Katephap¹,

Limnararat²

2017

IJIES

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This research investigates the operational, economic and environmental advantages of the returnable packaging under various reverse logistics arrangements, in relation to the disposable packaging. The business under study is a Thai manufacturer and exporter of automotive parts with the trading partners in the Philippines and Vietnam. In the study, a switch was made from the currently disposable packaging to the standardized returnable packaging under three reverse logistics arrangements: the single-, round-and multi-trip arrangements. Due to the large initial investment associated with the returnable packaging, a mathematical model was proposed to calculate the total effective packaging cost. The research findings revealed that the multi-trip reverse logistics arrangement was most operationally and environmentally viable, with the largest total packaging cost reduction and packaging waste reduction of 61% and 68%, relative to the disposable packaging. Meanwhile, the single-trip reverse logistics arrangement was most favorable economically due to its shortest payback period of 0.33 year. Moreover, the life cycle assessment (LCA) was applied to the disposable and returnable packaging to evaluate the environmental impacts throughout their lifetime. The LCA results validate the more environmentally-friendly nature of the returnable packaging.

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CO 2 emissions and logistics performance: a composite index proposal

Cited by 109 publications

References 37 publications

A green ideology in Asian emerging economies: From environmental policy and sustainable development

A green ideology in Asian emerging economies: From environmental policy and sustainable development

Green Transportation and Logistics Performance: An Improved Composite Index

The Operational, Economic and Environmental Benefits of Returnable Packaging Under Various Reverse Logistics Arrangements

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