Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Logistics Service Providers: A Case Study at DHL Parcel Benelux

Parcel deliveries have seen a massive grow over the past several years, mainly in the B2C sector due to rise of online shopping. Due to this growing market more transport movements in the last mile are required. These extra driven kilometers add up to an increase in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. In a world where the ask for more sustainable...

Revealing the complexity of reducing GHG emissions in Mexico: Constructing an emission abatement curve to improve comprehension on reducing GHG emissions using the Y-factor

Reducing GHG emissions has become a widely publicized topic to halt future effects of global warming. In an effort to accelerate the energy transition a group of policy-maker from McKinsey developed a tool named marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) capable of illustrating the relationship between the cost-effectiveness of different abatement...

A conceptual design study to prepare a general cargo ship for a refit towards alternative fuels

The shipping industry needs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other pollutants. In order to achieve this reduction, the shipping industry will be faced with stricter regulations that are currently unclear. The lifetime of a ship is about 25 years. As a result, it can be interesting to already take a possible refit to an alternative fuel...

Comparison between a bottom-up and a top-down approach for the compilation of environmental extensions for the Multi-Region Input-Output database EUREGIO

In this thesis two different approaches for the construction of environmental extensions compatible with the MRIO database EUREGIO are compared alongside with the latest liter- ature on consumption-based accounts. To date, few studies have focused on the provision of sub-national accounts at the NUTS2 level of detail and never production-based...

Towards more effective residential retrofit interventions: Exploring an alternative monitoring approach to drive the effectiveness of residential energy efficiency retrofit interventions

Humanity is facing large scale environmental challenges emerging from the anthropogenic climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) are widely considered to be the main driver of the changing climate. With the built environment currently being accountable for about 40% for our total GHG emissions there is a great urgency to act and change our...