Agenda

In this session, participants heard from the significant and growing number of shippers that needed freight partners to join them in delivering on sustainability. Carriers developed their understanding of what shippers were looking for from their logistics providers to achieve their sustainability targets.
• Developed an understanding of the supply chain sustainability goals, reporting, and strategies that shippers had set.
• Found out ways that shippers could partner with carriers to better understand how to achieve their GHG emission reduction goals.
• Explored how carriers could incorporate sustainability into their service offerings while remaining competitive on pricing.

Getting technology from the pilot phase to scaled commercial deployments proved difficult, but the carriers and 3PLs that made early investments learned valuable lessons. In this panel, participants heard from logistics leaders who were early adopters of sustainability strategies and advanced, clean technology.
• Understood the leading voluntary ESG frameworks used by shippers and their logistics partners to ensure consistent and credible reporting.
• Dug into the importance of continuing vehicle and network efficiency investments to build on a strong foundation for lowering emissions.
• Heard from early adopter shippers and carriers about how they went about adding advanced, clean tech that offered deeper emissions cuts to meet shipper goals despite technological and cost uncertainty.
• Learned lessons on incorporating renewable fuels, compressed and renewable natural gas, electric, and hydrogen-powered vehicles into their strategy.
• Discovered the essential elements of sustainability strategy development, management, and communications that went into creating lasting change in operations.

This short presentation, from a leading shipper, summarized their global emissions action plan, their strategies and goals for reducing their transportation and distribution GHG emissions, their asks of their transportation partners, and how they engaged with their carrier partners.

This short presentation, from a leading carrier, explored how they produced their sustainability and management plan, as well as how they reported on their progress and engaged their shipper customers.

This panel provided an overview of the primary approaches used by the logistics industry for sustainability-related data collection, accounting, and verification.
• Heard from industry leaders about the primary accounting standards used by shippers, including the Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC), SmartWay, and Greenhouse Gas Protocol.
• Learned how to account for the relative emissions reductions, compared to gasoline and diesel, of various advanced transportation technologies and lower carbon and renewable fuels.
• Developed an understanding of ways to plan and build a program for data use in customer sustainability requests, public reporting, and internal management that reduced duplication across these standards.
• Learned how to collect key data on emissions and vehicle usage internally or from transportation partners throughout the supply chain, to verify and achieve real emissions reductions.

This short presentation, from a leading 3PL, explored how they produced their sustainability and management plan, as well as how they reported on their progress and engaged their shipper customers.

This discussion provided a deep dive into a sustainability project with a shipper and their freight partners.
• Explored how the sustainability-focused partnership was formed and the goals that they agreed to collaborate on achieving.
• Discovered the lessons learned and best practices for overcoming challenges in the partnership, in technology adoption, and in aligning the goals of the companies.
• Developed an understanding of how a risk-sharing model was developed and used for this partnership.
• Understood the role of each party in communications, reporting, and tracking progress.
• Heard from the partners themselves about the business and environmental benefits from the partnership, with an eye towards how that partnership might expand.