At the Rencontres Économiques d’Aix-en-Provence, an economic forum attended by many organizations from around the world, 11 international groups have partnered to form an international coalition. AWS, Carrefour Group, CMA CGM Group, Cluster Maritime Français, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Engie, Faurecia, Michelin, Schneider Electric, Total and Wärtsilä are the existing members. The coalition is open to new members.
The 11 existing members aim to achieve three key goals by 2030: One, unlock a more extensive portfolio of clean energy sources, lower energy consumption per kilometer-equivalent of goods transported and eliminate a substantial proportion of emissions linked to transport and logistics.
Over the past few months, the coalition has established nine working groups with several dozen participants to devise nine concrete projects that will help shape the energy sources of the future. These are:
- Develop green hydrogen procurement solutions for the transport sector,
- Develop biofuels for the various modes of transport,
- Expand the use of biogas and synthetic gases in transport,
- Replace fossil fuels with green energy across the supply chain,
- Launch zero-emission vehicle pilot projects by the end of 2021,
- Create a digital door-to-door route planning system that calculates the option with the lowest environmental impact,
- Optimize the operational management and loading to step up the energy efficiency of each ton carried,
- Make multimodal platforms more environmentally friendly for logistics applications,
- Consolidate methods used to measure the impact of energy transition projects in transport and logistics.
The coalition’s initial findings will be officially presented in January 2021 at the IUCN World Conservation Congress.
