Setting targets for reducing carbon emissions from logistics: Current practice and guiding principles

Carbon Management

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 629-639

  McKinnon, Ac ^a   Piecyk, Mi ^b  

^a KÜHNE LOGISTICS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

CARBON ABATEMENT; CARBON EMISSIONS; CARBON REDUCTION; CARBON SAVING; GUIDING PRINCIPLES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; LOGISTICS OPERATIONS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS;

INDUSTRY;

CARBON;

EID: 84871084094     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.12.62     Document Type: Article

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