Around 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from freight transportation and warehousing. Reducing those emissions is a priority as companies work to meet their sustainability goals, adapt to increasing regulation and reduce costs by improving operational efficiency. In recognition of this fact, Celonis kicked off its 2024 Sustainability Transformation Week webinar series with an examination of how businesses can measure, manage, and optimize their shipping emissions.
Historically, organizations looking to enact these types of sustainability initiatives have often lacked tools, the frameworks or the data to deliver them successfully. Now, with the partnership between Celonis and carbon intelligence provider Climatiq, a solution is available— the Shipping Emissions App. But before we explore the app , let’s set a little context around the commercial importance and legacy challenges to addressing shipping emissions, Celonis reported.
A big carbon reduction opportunity lies in transportation and, as we’ve seen, there’s a clear commercial as well as environmental rationale for doing so. But even businesses keen to address the carbon footprint of their logistics operations, have often struggled with sustainability transformation.
This is because, historically, producing transportation and logistics emissions measurements took a lot of manual, time consuming work. Emissions data is often siloed, requiring separate sustainability teams to manually reach out to all business units to gather the information, run analysis, and generate company-wide buy-in. This last item can be particularly tricky as insights have been limited, unconnected with other business KPIs, retrospective (often gathered only on an annual basis) and not really actionable.