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This Week in Logistics News (July 30 – August 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

17 states stand by plan to electrify 30% of trucks and buses by 2030. A coalition of 17 states, as well as the District of Columbia and Canadian province of Quebec, plan to electrify 30 percent of new trucks and buses in their jurisdictions by 2030. Cargo begins clogging Port of Los Angeles amid railroad worker shortage.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 11 – 17)

Logistics Viewpoints

To that end, it has set greenhouse gas emissions goals, vowing to limit its Scopes 1 and 2 emissions by 50 percent by 2030, using 2019 as its baseline. Patrick’s Day, the weekend, and the song of the week, The State of Massachusetts by the Dropkick Murphys. The company says it will announce its Scope 3 goals at the end of this year.

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This Week in Logistics News (March 4 – 10)

Logistics Viewpoints

While the Biden administration hopes to see zero-emission trucks make up 30 percent of big rig sales by 2030, California has more ambitious plans. Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and Oregon also are moving to decarbonize drayage.

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Supply chains are key to corporate social value

Proxima

Unilever was among the biggest names to implement rigorous policies on this in 2020, vowing to pay all employees across its value chain at least a living wage by 2030, as well as committing to spending €2bn annually with suppliers consisting of under-represented groups by 2025.

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Globalization? Or Globaloney?

Supply Chain Insights

On his twitter feed this week he dropped the stats that “While Asia will have over half of worlds megacities (city >10m ppl) by 2030, Africa’s urbanization is skyrocketing” and “Of 8,000 British companies, 96% had no foreign-lang speakers. Ghemawat talks about lots of things. 1 st time exporters cite this as barrier to intl mkts.”

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Packaging Comes to the Forefront of Sustainability Efforts

Enterra Insights

Now, nearly a dozen states, including Massachusetts, are on track to follow Maine’s lead.”[3] ”[9] Journalist Lisa Johnston ( @thatljohnston ) reports Procter & Gamble “will launch a trial rollout of paper bottles in Western Europe next year as part of overall plans to cut the use of virgin plastics in half by 2030.

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One Year After U.S. Withdrawal From Paris Agreement

EcoVadis

In Massachusetts, for example, state representative Jennifer Benson wants to establish a fee of $20 per ton on carbon dioxide , which would be paid by the consumer filling up their car at the gas station or getting home heating oil delivered. State-Level Sustainability.