The transportation sector accounts for 25% of the EU’s total emissions, and the externalities associated with this activity amount to nearly 1 trillion euros. It is therefore of fundamental importance for companies to measure the effects that their activities have on the environment and society in order to intervene, become more sustainable, and reduce costs.
The Green Logistics Emissions & Externalities Calculator (GLEEC) represents a user-friendly toolbox that allows for easy and fast examination of the sustainability level of one’s logistics and distribution model.
The Green Radar project aims to establish a permanent catalogue of best practices in sustainability within logistics. By conducting interviews with best-in-class companies, experts, and providers of green solutions for logistics processes and the supply chain, it will be possible to develop a tool that allows for the collection, cataloguing, classification, and representation of all practices related to “green logistics” across the four areas of logistics: Packaging, Warehousing, Transportation, and Supply Chain.
Through the Green Radar, every company will be able to learn about the most innovative solutions in the market, assess the level of maturity and adoption of these solutions, and evaluate their applicability to their own business reality.
The Green Supply Chain Labs project aims to guide companies on a structured and concrete path to a more sustainable supply chain, in line with corporate sustainability goals and emerging industry trends.
Environmental sustainability has seen a strong growth in interest in recent years, to the point where it has become a fundamental strategic lever and source of competitiveness for companies adopting “green” choices. More and more businesses are aiming to improve their logistics processes in favour of sustainability. On this topic, the Green Transition Hub, in collaboration with the LOGISTICA magazine, aims to analyse the current technological and organizational solutions adopted in the areas of transportation, packaging, warehouses, and supply chain.
The Logistics Real Estate Observatory (OSIL) aims to study the real estate sector for logistics in Italy through targeted investigations and in-depth analyses on various topics related to warehouses, distribution, and transportation. For 2022, the OSIL Observatory has focused on studying the characteristics that make a warehouse environmentally sustainable. The research has analysed the “green” features of warehouses and their importance in evaluating the quality of logistics properties through the VA.LO.RE. rating system.
The results of the research were presented during the “Green Warehousing” conference on October 6, 2022, as part of the Green Logistics Expo in Padua
The Pallet Observatory (OPAL) aims to analyse, from the perspective of economic and environmental sustainability, the operational processes of pallet exchange throughout the various stages of the logistics chain.
The GeTRI–SWITCH (Cross-border Management Transport of Inert Waste Intermodal) project, was funded under the INTERREG 2014-2020 program, Axis 3 Integrated and Sustainable Mobility: Improving Mobility in Cross-Border Areas.
The project, developed in collaboration with Province of Varese (lead partner of the project), Republic and Canton of Ticino, Lombardy Region, Province of Como, LIUC-Università Cattaneo, ARS Ambiente and SBB Cargo, made it possible to verify the technical and economic feasibility of the intermodal transport of aggregates and inert waste between Canton Ticino and Lombardy.
Environmental sustainability represents a crucial element for international freight forwarders as it allows them to maintain competitiveness and meet the expectations of customers and institutions, while also contributing to the efficiency and reduction of the environmental impact of shipping logistics activities.
The Green Forwarding project, carried out in collaboration with Fedespedi (National Federation of International Shipping Companies), aims to provide international freight forwarders with essential tools to assess and enhance their environmental performance. In particular, the project aims to identify sustainability Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with specific reference to the freight forwarding sector in order to establish guidelines for reducing the environmental impact of shipping logistics activities.
The research aims to identify best practices and winning strategies that foster the adoption of ESG criteria by companies in the logistics and transport sector. The research results will provide a clear and practical framework for developing policies, programmes and partnerships that foster sustainable and responsible management of logistics and transport operations, thereby creating shared value for all parties involved.
Hydrogen represents one of the most interesting energy sources to discuss in the context of ecological transition, but it is evident that the discussion around it presents numerous challenges that need to be addressed by the stakeholders involved.
The Hydrogen Lab (H2Lab) aims to scientifically analyze, using an economic management approach, the hydrogen value chain in order to identify its benefits and challenges for different actors in the industry.
The CIRCULAR ECONOMY MONITOR project consists of a periodic observatory for businesses in the Varese-Como-Lecco area. Its aim is to identify priority issues, including managerial practices, drivers, and barriers to the adoption of circular economy principles and sustainability goals, particularly in industrial sectors of interest to the circular economy, with a focus on small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
The objective of the Green and Circular Innovation Patent Index project is to create an overview of investments in “sustainability-oriented” innovation, as they emerge from patent data. The analysis also allows to correlate the investments in sustainability-oriented innovation with the performance of businesses and territories, both in terms of economics and innovation.
The objective of the GREEN MEASUREMENT TOOLBOX project is to create a tool for measuring the maturity of companies about sustainability and circular economy issues, monitoring their progress over time and using the information provided by the measure to identify business improvement areas to intervene on.
Innovation and the development of green patents are at the core of the Sustainability-Oriented Innovation (SOI) paradigm. Therefore, intellectual property management plays a key role in directing creativity towards sustainable solutions, generating economic value and promoting social inclusion and welfare.
The R.I.S.I.CO. project aims to achieve two main objectives: the development of an innovation assessment tool and the PATTERN dashboard.
PATTERN is an intuitive platform that provides information about patents in Italy (green and non-green), exploring crucial indicators for an in-depth understanding of the state of Italian innovation.
