Report: Logistics industry agrees on sustainability solutions, but struggles to scale them

Logistics service providers, manufacturers, and retailers largely agree on the measures that cut emissions and promote sustainability in logistics, but they struggle to scale them, according to results of the first Global Sustainable Logistics Survey (GSLS), released this week by Kühne Logistics University (KLU) and the Kuehne Climate Center (KCC).

The survey polled 1,085 professionals from 64 countries about sustainable logistics, covering three topics: sustainability solutions, skills, and adaptation to climate risks.

“Across all three areas, the same pattern emerges: professionals broadly agree on what needs to happen, but progress depends on whether individual companies, or the wider systems they rely on, are actually able to act,” GSLS researchers wrote in the inaugural report, which they say is the first global, longitudinal study on sustainable logistics and sets a baseline for tracking the sector over the United Nations (UN) Decade of Sustainable Transport initiative.

The report also makes recommendations for policymakers and logistics professionals on scaling sustainability solutions, building skills, and adapting to climate risks.

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