The global logistics sector stands to reach $8 trillion in value and supports 10% of global employment, but contributes 11% of global emissions. The sector faces five key challenges hindering sustainability: geopolitical disruptions and rising costs, infrastructure gaps, climate risk, labour shortages and rising consumer expectations.
To tackle these issues, the insight report Green Logistics Innovation for Emerging Markets: Driving Competitiveness and Shared Value identifies strategies for overcoming systemic barriers (e.g. policy and regulatory fragmentation, limited resources and lack of ecosystem alignment) in emerging markets. It proposes: building an integrated policy and regulatory framework, mobilizing green finance, upskilling the workforce, and cultivating ecosystem collaboration.
These efforts are poised to collectively unlock system-wide decarbonization and efficiency. Actors such as governments, industry, financial institutions, academia and civil society, and shippers and cargo owners can collectively establish a shared agenda and scale green logistics.