How can we reduce our carbon FOOTPRINT around Easter?
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- 02 May 2023
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To reduce the environmental impact and decongest traffic, European cities are implementing a series of innovations in logistics, such as supporting the transition to electric vehicles, implementing urban cargo bikes, urban consolidation centers or installing parcel lockers.
Around the Easter holidays, online shopping increases exponentially. This comes with the need to ensure the transport of purchased goods – the only source of greenhouse gases that increased between 1990 and 2018 (31.8% increase). Freight transport is responsible for 7% of total global CO2 emissions .
If you live in an urban area and have access to the Internet, chances are you've already contributed to the "on-demand" economy. In fact, anyone who has ordered a service or product over the Internet and received it at their chosen location has done so.
In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictive measures have contributed to this trend. As Easter approaches, it's useful to understand what the bunny's gifts mean for our cities and the environment .
Noise pollution and significant greenhouse gas emissions
Although logistics is rarely a hot topic in the public sphere, freight transport has a significant impact on the environment. In Europe, goods are mostly transported by road – with vans (with internal combustion) in cities, and with trucks outside them. This produces noise pollution and significant greenhouse gas emissions, and also has negative impacts on inner-city traffic and road safety. Read More…
