1. ECR Europe Sustainable
Transport workshop
Brussels – 29 of September 2009
Jan Somers – GS1 ECR
Arnaud Brohé – CO2logic

2. Content
• Origin – motivation
• Common Understanding
• Objective
• Tool
• Scope
• Methodology
• First results – transport & warehouses
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3. Origin - motivation
• Sustainability was identified by ECR members as a
priority (not a surprise!)
• CO2 emissions – risk of tax punishment
• Focus of EU Commission
• Willingness to do something in the ECR community,
but what?
• We want to reduce our carbon footprint, but how?
• Where do we start?
• Logistics (transport) or products (scope?)
• Development of a universal CO2-measurement tool
(with a pilot in Beluxregio)
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4. Common understanding
• One common agreement to measure the carbon
footprint of transport for GS1 members
• Both warehousing and outbound transport to the POS
are in the scope
• Inbound logistics may be in the scope for those
companies that have control over it
• An agreement to measure with one single SAME tool:
ADEME’s Bilan Carbone
• Phase 1 : pilot and implementation of measurement tool
• Phase 2: ECR roadmap
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5. Objective
• Objectives:
 Single common measurement tool for
CO2 emissions of transport
• Pilot project participants (18)
 Alpro - Colruyt – Carrefour - Delhaize
- Dr. Oetker – Ferrero - HJ Heinz
Belgium - Kraft Foods Europe - Lima
Natuurvoeding - Nestlé - Pepsico -
Sara lee - Schenker - Sporalex &
Vosmarques – Reckitt Benckiser -
Unilever - United Biscuits - Van
Genechten Packaging
 Start: June 2009
 End: Dec 2009
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6. Tool
• Bilan Carbone:
 Developed by ADEME (France)
 Widely used and tested by several large organizations
• Pro’s
 Compliant with ISO 14064/65 (various scopes + 6 Kyoto GHGs)
 The method includes a rich database with emission factors
 Training sessions / regular updates / official recognition
 Opportunities: situation analysis, CO2 reduction priorities,
identify quick wins,…
• Con’s
 French standard emissions factors  needs additional research to be
applicable in other countries
 No guidelines on the allocation of GHG emissions between users of a
multi-users platform (particularly complex for milk-runs)
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7. Scope
GS1 Members
Offices /
International Buildings
Optional Scope for the
Freight
measurement
of transport
emissions
Consumption &
Production of Distribution
Stores Disposal of
Goods Centers (DC)
Goods
Truck fleet
Supplier Customer
(owned by
Transport Transport
stores)
Supply chain of FMCGs
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8. Methodology (1/3)
1) Interviews with participants in order to gather specific data
over shipment weights, travel distances and –if available- specific fuel
consumption and types of truck. Collection of data on energy use and
refrigerants leakages in warehouses.
2) For multi-users platform: simulation of milk-runs in order to estimate the rea
travel distances
3) Calculation of transport and warehousing emission for every participant
4) ECR roadmap and carbon footprint tool with a 3-tier approach:
- Level 1: basic calculation using a standard emission factor by ton.km for
transport and by m2 for each warehouse
- Level 2: use of specific fuel data, energy consumption and load factor
- Level 3: level 2 with options to account for upstreams/embodied emissions
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9. Methodology (2/3)
Evehicle = Eempty + [(Efull - Eempty)] * Pload
GVW class Transport w/o Load Transport with Full Load Max load
l/100 gCO2/km l/100km gCO2/km tons
gCO2/km gCO2/km
km (with (with
(w/o (w/o
upstream) upstream)
upstream) upstream)
< 1,5 tonnes diesel 7,2 191,5 212,4 7,2 191,5 212,4 0,4
1,5 - 2,5 tonnes diesel 8,4 223,4 247,8 8,4 223,4 247,8 0,7
2,51 - 3,5 tonnes diesel 10,8 287,3 318,6 10,8 287,3 318,6 1,2
3,5 tonnes 12,4 329,8 365,8 12,4 329,8 365,8 1,4
3,51 - 5 tonnes 13,1 349,6 387,7 18,9 503,4 558,3 2,4
5,1 - 6 tonnes 16,7 444,3 492,7 24,1 639,8 709,6 2,8
6,1 - 10,9 tonnes 19,4 516,3 572,6 28,0 743,5 824,6 4,7
11 - 19 tonnes 25,6 679,7 753,8 36,8 978,8 1085,5 9,8
19,1 - 21 tonnes 29,5 784,3 869,8 42,5 1129,4 1252,5 11,6
21,1 - 32,6 tonnes 37,1 986,9 1094,5 53,4 1421,1 1576,0 16,7
Tractor-trailers 31,0 823,5 913,3 44,6 1185,8 1315,1 25,0
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10. Methodology (3/3)
Simulation of milk-runs in order
to compute real driven distances
for every delivery.
Questionnaire for drivers during
a sample period in order to
estimate real consumption data
and double-check the driven
distances calculated with the
simulation.
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11. First results - transport (1/2)
1)Tisselt  Temse (19 km)
User A: 10.000 kg
User B: 5.000 kg
-Fill rate = 15.000/17.000 = 88%
 8,16 liters diesel
 21,7 kg CO2
2) Temse  Beveren (18 km)
User B: 5.000 kg
Fill rate = 5.000/17.000 = 29%
 6,29 liters diesel
 16 kg CO2
3) Retour Beveren  Tisselt (33 km)
Fill rate = 0% (all goods have been delivered)
10,2 liters diesel
 27 kg CO2
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12. First results - transport (2/2)
Total CO2 emission of the milkrun in the previous example = 64,7 kg CO2
Allocation of the total emission to the different users or drops should be
bassed on actual tonne.km caused by each user in the milkrun:
-User A: 10.000 kg * 19 km = 190 tonne.km = 50.7%
-User B: 5.000 kg * (19km + 18km) = 185 tonne.km = 49,3%
 Allocated emission for User A = 33 kg CO2
 Allocated emission for User B = 31,7 kg CO2
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13. First results - warehouses
Electricity (Electrabel) 2.000.000 kWh
Natural gas 1.500.000 kWh
Heating Oil NA
R407C 2,8 kg/year
Energy benchmark
(kwh/m2 per year)
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14. Contact Details
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