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Education is key to carbon-cutting says Girteka

[ April 8, 2024   //   ]

Girteka Group, which describes itself as the largest European asset-based transportation company, has launched an educational campaign on sustainability.

It says that today’s main challenge in the logistics and transport sectors is decarbonization. Electric trucks, intermodal transport, hydrogen powered vehicles, and biofuels are the most common solutions currently being discussed to tackle the European Union’s (EU) ambitious emission reduction targets, but this requires deep knowledge of details and technicalities that are hard for a non-expert audience to understand.

Available content is fragmented and lacks an overall perspective on what can be achieved and how, who will stand to gain and who will end up losing in the drastic transition to Net Zero by 2050. Most importantly, what opportunities do today’s goal of decarbonization of road transport present in terms of sustainable solutions for companies?

Girteka’s educational initiative aims to bring insights into decarbonization of road freight transport. The idea behind this campaign is to convey the message that the activities and direction the EU is heading toward should be practical, realistic and beneficial for all stakeholders within the entire supply chain in the long term, as well as for the communities in which it works and lives.

In the next few weeks, Girteka will be sharing insights on battery-electric heavy goods vehicles, their usage, drivers’ experiences, and challenges that many businesses are facing today when it comes to achieving their sustainability goals. The campaign will also explore intermodal rail transport – what is possible today and what plans have been put into place to improve the infrastructure? Later on, Girteka will analyse the possibilities of reducing emissions from existing assets through the implementation of solutions like HVO100 or HVO mass balancing. Also as final part the initiative will also focus on the new requirements of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) in terms of reporting emissions from transport, which can be easily incorporated into the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) approach.

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