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BIFA takes the Pledge to green global supply chains

[ January 25, 2023   //   ]

The British International Freight Association (BIFA) is cooperating with the Pledge carbon measurement and offsetting platform to help its members better understand and address environmental issues affecting international supply chains. Pledge will provide BIFA with resources to guide members on what to do to address the tasks at hand and address what needs to be considered as the main environmental issues, and the challenges they pose.
BIFA director general, Steve Parker, said: “The need to understand and address the environmental impact of freight forwarders’ activities within global supply chains grows by the day. Our members are facing increasing pressure from regulators, business partners, and consumers amongst others, in favour of business initiatives and good practice that are considered to be environmentally friendly.
He said freight firms were increasingly seeing tenders that demand actual evidence of what they are doing to reduce harmful emissions and operate in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable manner.
Pledge co-founder and chief executive, David de Picciotto added: “The pressure on logistics service providers is not going away, but will only continue to grow. They need to take action now, and it all starts with getting thorough visibility of their carbon footprint.”
Parker concluded: “Carbon reduction and the more widely related environmental sustainability agenda are now no longer seen as a ‘nice to have’ or ‘tree hugging’ initiatives, but increasingly mainstream business activities, taking centre stage on the business agenda.
“While some members are already deploying sustainability technologies and strategies to reduce freight emissions, these practices are not yet widely adopted. For the most part this has been seen in larger organisations as part of most tenders and business activities, but the process is filtering down into smaller businesses and it is BIFA’s responsibility to be able to assist all our members, whatever their size, to meet this challenge to their long term viability.”

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