Guide for Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting at Logistics Hubs

Sustainable warehousing and transhipment of goods have achieved increasing attention among academics and practitioners in logistics operations. This trend will be further supported by the new international standard ISO 14083:2023. This provides an aligned framework for the quantification and reporting of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for logistics chains and replaces the current EN 16258. The ISO’s scope encompasses all transport modes and logistics hubs, the latter playing a connecting role within global logistics chains. This guide provides advice on how to carbon audit logistics hubs with a view to performing logistics chains calculation.
Therefore, the guide outlines requirements and options set by the ISO 14083 as well as clarifies new terms and abbreviations used in the ISO document, further detailed with view to logistics hubs and relevant assessment boundaries. It provides guidance on collecting data, definition of hub operation categories (HOCs) as well as calculating GHG emission intensity values, both without and with allocation. Reporting as required by the ISO 14083 is summarised and examples for different tasks within GHG emissions calculation of logistics hubs are given. Additional guidance is given in relation to measuring energy consumption, partitioning electricity use at the level of activity clusters, suppliers’ electricity mixes and on-site generation as well as average greenhouse gas emission intensity values for logistics hubs.