德国邮政敦豪集团与致力于可持续货运的非营利组织 Smart Freight Centre 共同倡导货运脱碳的新途径——碳嵌入。一份联合开发的白皮书“物流行业的碳嵌入”推荐了一种为物流行业的脱碳项目分金的创新方法。通过释放这一重要资源，将创造一个重要的杠杆来支持向绿色物流的技术转变。已经存在充足的解决方案，例如可持续燃料、车队更新、发动机改造和效率项目。这些投资不仅是运输部门脱碳的一种高效方式，而且从长远来看，还将导致整个物流供应链的结构改进。
“为了确保物流业能够继续成功地为应对气候变化做出贡献，我们需要一个统一的、针对特定行业的标准来补偿和减少碳排放，”管理委员会成员 Tim Scharwath 说。 Deutsche Post DHL Group, CEO DHL Global Forwarding, Freight。“从长远来看，交通更加脱碳是推动积极变革的关键。面向未来的物流公司现在应该考虑制定严格的插入策略。”
“有机会将与运输排放相关的碳抵消资金用于物流部门的项目——这种做法被称为碳嵌入，”智能货运中心的专家顾问和白皮书的作者 Suzanne Greene 说。“本文为加速货运脱碳的系统奠定了基础。” 货运部门的碳嵌入概念是通过她与麻省理工学院可持续供应链倡议的合作而发展起来的。
背景设定：物流行业的碳排放
货运目前占全球碳排放量的 8%（如果包括物流站点的排放量，则为 11%）。国际运输最近的研究预测，到 2050 年，这些排放量将翻一番，因为在此期间预计需求将增长三倍。企业的气候行动主要是自愿的，缺乏协调，因此货运脱碳步伐太慢。一些货运运营商通过投资碳抵消来减轻部分运输排放，例如林业项目。2018 年，2.68 亿美元的自愿碳抵消市场中只有 0.2% 进入了与交通相关的项目。在运输部门之外花费的资金是有意义的，但无助于推动全球货运网络本身的脱碳。
建议的解决方案：碳镶嵌
碳嵌入，其中抵消资金用于解决物流供应链内部的影响，可以成为加速运输部门脱碳的解决方案的一部分。
可以大规模应用的项目类型有很多：替代性、可持续燃料的规模化、车队更新或发动机改造可以用低碳技术升级交通网络。提高运输效率可以减少燃料消耗并避免过度排放。所有这些方法都显着减少了气候影响，并有益于公共健康和安全，因此不仅有助于实现《巴黎协定》，而且还支持可持续发展目标。
将概念付诸实践：灯塔项目已经在进行中
白皮书重点介绍了为插图提供蓝图的具体示例。对于可持续航空燃料 (SAF)，具有可持续燃料证书的账簿和索赔机制的插入解决方案将消除障碍，例如需要对公司供应链中的这些燃料进行物理可追溯性，同时提供资金以激励进一步发展这些燃料。这个概念类似于 GoodShipping 计划，该计划正在推动生物燃料在海运中的使用。此外，德国邮政敦豪集团 (Deutsche Post DHL Group) 的一项旨在促进可持续公路货运技术的插入计划，即瑞典的 Skicka Gr?nt（“Send Green”）计划也有特色：参与该计划的客户为每个运送的包裹支付固定的附加费，
行动呼吁：需要跨行业的合作
虽然将碳嵌入应用到交通运输部门具有巨大的潜力，但需要一个全行业的倡议来进一步发展、推进和标准化这一概念。麻省理工学院可持续供应链、智能货运中心及其全球物流排放委员会 (GLEC)（德国邮政敦豪集团是其成员）希望在这个问题上有所作为。步是基于 GLEC 框架制定碳插入核算和报告的方法和指南，更广泛地涵盖物流排放，并与公司进行测试。这是采取进一步措施以完全接受碳嵌入作为减少物流行业外包“范围 3”货运排放的可行手段的个先决条件。下一步是让这些机制得到现有和未来的报告和会计标准的认可。承运人、货运代理和托运人需要共同努力以实现这一目标。
Deutsche Post DHL Group together with Smart Freight Centre, a non-profit organization dedicated to sustainable freight, is advocating a new pathway to freight decarbonization – carbon insetting. A jointly developed white paper, “Carbon Insets for the Logistics Sector”, recommends an innovative approach for allocating funds to decarbonization projects in the logistics industry. By unlocking this vital resource, a significant lever would be created to support the technological shift towards greener logistics. Ample solutions already exist, such as sustainable fuel, fleet renewal, engine retrofitting, and efficiency projects. These investments would not only be a highly efficient way to decarbonize the transport sector, but also result in structural improvements of the entire logistics supply chain in the long run. The complete white paper "Carbon Insets for the Logistics Sector" is now available for free download at
“To ensure that the logistics industry can continue to contribute successfully to the fight against climate change, we need a uniform and sector-specific standard for compensating for, and reducing, carbon emissions,” says Tim Scharwath, Member of the Board of Management of Deutsche Post DHL Group, CEO DHL Global Forwarding, Freight. “In the long-term, greater decarbonization of transport is key to driving positive change. Future-proofed logistics companies should think now about developing a stringent insetting strategy.”
"There is an opportunity to channel carbon offset funds related to transportation emissions to projects within the logistics sector - a practice known as carbon insetting," says Suzanne Greene, Smart Freight Centre's Expert Advisor and author of the white paper. “This paper lays the foundation for a system to accelerate freight decarbonization.” The concept of carbon insetting for the freight sector was developed through her work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sustainable Supply Chains initiative.
Setting the scene: carbon emissions in the logistics sector
Freight transportation is currently responsible for 8% of global carbon emissions (11% if emissions from logistics sites are included). Recent studies by the International Transport Forum forecast these emissions to double by 2050 as demand is anticipated to grow threefold in this period. Climate action by companies is largely voluntary and lacks coordination and thus the pace of freight decarbonization is too slow. Some freight operators mitigate part of their transportation emissions by investing in carbon offsets, such as in forestry projects. In 2018, only 0.2% of the USD 268 million voluntary carbon offset market went into transport-related projects. Funds spent outside the transport sector are meaningful but will not help to advance the decarbonization of the global freight transportation network itself.
Proposed solution: Carbon Insetting
Carbon insetting, where offset funding is directed to address impacts inside the logistics supply chain, can be part of the solution to accelerate decarbonization of the transport sector.
The types of projects that could be applied at scale are numerous: the scaling of alternative, sustainable fuels, fleet renewal or engine retrofits can upgrade transportation networks with lower carbon technologies. Improving the efficiency of shipments leads to reduced fuel consumption and avoids excess emissions. All these approaches provide meaningful reductions in climate impact, as well as benefits for public health and safety and therefore do not only contribute to achieving the Paris Agreement, but also support the Sustainable Development Goals.
Putting the concept into practice: Lighthouse projects already ongoing
The white paper highlights specific examples that provide a blueprint for insets. For sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), an insetting solution with a book and claim mechanism for sustainable fuel certificates would remove barriers, such as the need for physical traceability of those fuels in a company’s supply chain, while providing the funding to incentivize further development of these fuels. This concept is similar to the GoodShipping program, which is advancing the use of biofuels in ocean freight. In addition, Deutsche Post DHL Group’s insetting program to foster sustainable road freight technologies, the Skicka Gr?nt (“Send Green”) program in Sweden is featured: customers participating in the program pay a fixed surcharge for every shipped parcel, which is then fully invested into biofuels and electric vehicles within for the Swedish transport network.
Call for action: Collaboration across the industry needed
While there is vast potential to apply carbon insets to the transportation sector, there is a need for an industry-wide initiative to further develop, advance and standardize the concept. MIT Sustainable Supply Chains, Smart Freight Centre and its Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC), which Deutsche Post DHL Group is a member of, want to move the needle on this issue. The first step is to develop methods and guidelines for carbon inset accounting and reporting, based on the GLEC framework, that covers logistics emissions more broadly, and test this with companies. This is the first prerequisite for taking further steps to fully enable acceptance of carbon insetting as a viable means to reduce outsourced “scope 3” freight transport emissions in the logistics industry. The next step is for these mechanisms to be acknowledged by existing and future reporting and accounting standards. Carriers, forwarders and shippers need to work together to achieve this goal.