C.H. Robinson has unveiled Emissions IQ™, which will be a free, self-serve tool for customers to instantly show a company’s carbon emissions across all forms of transportation globally.
In its pilot phase, Emissions IQ™ has already helped 125 companies reduce their carbon emissions by a total of 350,000 metric tonnes of CO2 equivalents. That is as much carbon as 39m gallons of gasoline would emit.
“You can only change what you can measure,” said, C.H. Robinson’s Chief Human Resources and E.S.G. Officer Angie Freeman. “Even companies committed to sustainability have struggled to capture their emissions across complex, multi-faceted supply chains. By putting useful technology and data at their fingertips, we’re not only increasing the transparency of emissions in our industry, but we’re surfacing the best strategies for customers to make meaningful carbon reductions right now.”
To cut transportation emissions, companies first need to be able to measure them. Most are not equipped to do that easily across truck, rail, air and ocean transportation. For smaller shipments that share a truck with other companies’ goods, a standard for measuring has not even existed. Without the necessary tools and data, many companies have not been able to pursue carbon reduction at all or are investing a lot of time and effort that could be automated and eliminated.
Emissions IQ™, the latest innovation from C.H. Robinson’s tech incubator Robinson Labs, is a tool that automatically calculates emissions and provides easy visualization of a shipper’s carbon output. Emissions analysis across all transportation modes is available from C.H. Robinson now, and all modes will be available within the self-serve tool once ocean and air are added later this year. Accredited to use the Global Logistics Emissions Counsel (GLEC) framework, Emissions IQ™ gives shippers data that is trusted and universally accepted.
To help companies address the emissions of less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments – which have skyrocketed because of the e-commerce boom – C.H. Robinson funded a project with MIT’s Center for Transportation & Logistics. That became the basis for a collaboration with EPA’s SmartWay program to establish a method specific to measuring those emissions. Accounting for the extra miles and higher fuel consumption of a truck making multiple pickups and deliveries, C.H. Robinson is sharing this advanced data model with the EPA to incorporate into its online tools. Companies will be able to instantly get a calculation of their LTL emissions.
Source: C.H.Robinson
