Abstract
Credible corporate commitments to environmental and sustainability outcomes build upon reasonable estimates of corporate impacts and realistic plans to ameliorate those impacts. Although many companies have already begun to account for their goods movement emissions, the vast majority of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosures do not. This report creates and critically evaluates two complementary accounting mechanisms for air pollution emissions resulting from local transportation systems—for use in ESG disclosure and impact mitigation planning. These mechanisms are applied to a case study of businesses involved in food freight in Los Angeles: demonstrating the scope of local goods movement impacts on air quality and climate, and paving a path for additional analyses to follow. By quantifying the scope of impact from certain business and supply chain operations, this analysis makes the case for enhanced corporate responsibility by documenting and then reducing transportation system emissions from supply chain and logistics systems.
Highlights
While the Corporate Pollution Accounting (CPA) methodology described in this paper could be applied to any sector in any geographic region, this study focuses on the food sector in Los Angeles
This paper identifies two potential analytical approaches for quantifying the air pollution associated with the transportation choices of companies in the food freight in Los Angeles, with a focus on grocery
Based on the analysis conducted this paper finds that 71.6 million tons of food freight were shipped by truck to the Los Angeles area in 2018, accounting for 17.1% of total truck freight destined for the region
Summary
While the CPA methodology described in this paper could be applied to any sector in any geographic region, this study focuses on the food sector in Los Angeles. Los Angeles is home to a high concentration of truck-based goods movement operations, the largest shipping hub in the U.S at the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach, and one of the largest consumer markets in the world. Serving this market requires an extensive goods movement network that receives freight from domestic and international markets and distributes it across the region. Diesel trucks are the dominant mode of transportation, moving over 500 million tons of that freight [2].
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