New Fuel Tool Provides Fleets Climate Emission Data
The nonprofit network Business for Social Responsibility said it launched an interactive database called Fuel Tool to support the transition to low-carbon commercial road freight.
BSR said the tool provides credible data for fleet owners to measure the average climate emissions for the technology they use, understand the full range of social and environmental impacts and implement practices to get the results they want from their fleet and suppliers.
Several of the nation’s largest fleets and suppliers assisted in its development, including: PepsiCo, Shell Oil, Suncor Energy Inc., The Coca-Cola Co., UPS Inc., Volvo Group, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and Westport Power Inc.
“A full life-cycle assessment of a fuel’s sustainability is an extremely complex task, and this tool gives us directional results at almost the push of a button,” Elizabeth Freithem, Wal-Mart’s director of sustainability, said in a statement. “The tool will help us better understand the footprint of our current fuel supply chain and identify opportunities as well as in the evaluation of new fuels. This will be a valuable asset for the industry.”
UPS ranks No. 1 on the Transport Topics Top 100 list of the largest U.S. and Canadian for-hire carriers.
PepsiCo ranks No. 1 on the Transport Topics Top 100 list of the largest private carriers in North America; Wal-Mart Stores is No. 3 and Coca-Cola is No. 4.
The Fuel Tool is available for download at http://www.bsr.org/fuel-tool.
