Ecologistics

Low carbon freight for sustainable cities

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ICLEI’s “EcoLogistics: Low carbon freight for sustainable cities” project focuses on capacitating governmental and non-governmental actors to build strategies and policies to promote low-carbon and more sustainable urban freight through local action and national support.

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Globally, urban freight represents up to 25 percent of urban vehicles, takes up to 40 percent of motorized road space and contributes to up to 40 percent of urban transport-related CO2 emissions. Urban freight includes a wide variety of services, from waste collection trucks to construction trucks or commercial related trucks. Today, a growing number of cities are including urban freight in their plans to reduce their emissions.

ICLEI’s EcoLogistics project (2017-2022) is supported by the German The project received support from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) through the International Climate Initiative (IKI) involving 9 cities in Argentina, Colombia, and India. The project focuses on capacitating governmental and non-governmental actors to build strategies and policies to promote low-carbon and more sustainable urban freight through local action and national support.

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Project approach

The goal of this project is to promote low carbon urban freight (EcoLogistics) policies and practices contributing to climate change mitigation and towards meeting the ambitions of NDCs in Argentina, Colombia and India.

“EcoLogistics” promotes transportation of goods by giving priority to health, safety, people-centered urban development and low-emission and will encourage circular and regional economies to limit the growth of freight transport. It follows the strategy to Avoid (and reduce) the freight volume and haul distance, Shift (and maintain) to more sustainable modes of freight transportation, Improve the logistics operations by use of technologies and better operation.

Project outputs

Knowledge products

Comprehensive city profile on urban freight

EcoLogistics Project City Profiles

Project experience documented in a “EcoLogistics Handbook” and disseminated globally

Handbook

Tools, plans & policies

Low Carbon Action Plan for Urban Freight (LCAP-UF) for project cities

Low Carbon Action Plans for Urban Freight (LCAPs-UF)

Self-monitoring tool to measure the existing performance of urban freight emissions

Ecologistics Self-monitoring tool

Low Carbon Action Plan for Urban Freight (LCAP-UF) A guide to developing an LCAP-UF

Low Carbon Action Plans for Urban Freight (LCAP-UF) – A guide to developing an LCAP-UF

National EcoLogistics Policy Recommendation (NELPR) for each country

Argentina National EcoLogistics Policy Recomendations

Colombia National EcoLogistics Policy Recomendations

India National EcoLogistics Policy Recomendations

Demonstration projects

Low-carbon urban freight demonstration projects

EcoLogistics Demonstration Projects

EcoLogistics lessons learned

Project activities

Consultation & capacity development

Establishing a multi-stakeholder working group at each project city comprising all identified key actors

Capacity building workshops in each country with relevant stakeholders

Project scenarios

Setting GHG emission baseline for urban freight for each project city

EcoLogistics Report 2021

Establishing urban freight targets for each project city

EcoLogistics GHG targets

Project scenarios for future implementation of mitigation measures in urban freight

EcoLogistics future trends

Outreach

International reporting of project cities on urban freight emissions in the carbonn Climate Registry (cCR)

https://carbonn.org/

Project results are shared at national and international events e.g. COP 2020, International transport forums.

Project cities

All

Argentina

Colombia

India

Project partners

IKI EcoLogistics is a project implemented by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability. The ICLEI World Secretariat is responsible for project management and coordination. ICLEI South America Secretariat and ICLEI South Asia Secretariat are the implementing partners. Despacio, the Smart Freight Centre and the Zaragoza Logistics Center are technical partners for this project.

The project is supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) through the International Climate Initiative (IKI).

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