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International environmental "Green"authorities
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change
http://unfccc.int/2860.php
Intergovernmental panel on climate change
http://ipcc.ch/
United Nations Environment Programme
http://www.unep.org/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://epa.gov
National Center for Environmental Economics (EPA)
http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/webpages/homepage
California Climate
Action Registry
http://climateregistry.org
European Commission
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/index_en.htm
European Environmental Agency
http://www.eea.europa.eu/
International transport authorities
International Maritime Organization
http://www.imo.org/
International Civil Aviation Organisation
http://www.icao.int/env/
EUROPE
The European
Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) is an intergovernmental organisation
established by a
Protocol
signed in Brussels on 17 October 1953. It comprises the Ministers of Transport
of 44 full Member countries, 7 Associate countries and 1 Observer country
http://internationaltransportforum.org/home.html
European Commission,
Directorate-General for Energy and Transport
http://ec.europa.eu/transport/logistics/index_en.htm
DENMARK
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Ministry of Transport
http://trm.dk
FINLAND
- Ministry of Transport and Communication
http://mintc.fi
GERMANY
-
Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development
http://bmvbs.de
NETHERLANDS
-
Ministry of Transport Public Works and Water Management
http://minvenw.nl
USA
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US
department of Transportation
http://dot.gov/
Research programs and platforms
Eionet is a partnership network of the European
Environment Agency (EEA) and its member and participating countries involving
approximately 900 experts and more than 300 national institutions. The network
supports the collection and organisation of data and the development and
dissemination of information concerning Europe’s environment.
http://www.eionet.europa.eu/
QUANTIFY, an Integrated Project coordinated by
the DLR-Institute of Atmospheric Physics, was started in March 2005 with a large
kick-off event in Landshut. It deals with the climate impact of transport and is
funded until 2010 by the European Commission within the 6th research framework
programme. QUANTIFY also includes the DLR Institute of Transport Research
(Berlin) and the Research Flight Facility Oberpfaffenhofen. In total, 35
participants and 4 associated members from 16 European countries and the U.S.A.
are cooperating in QUANTIFY
http://www.pa.op.dlr.de/quantify/
The Swedish Network for Transport and
Environment, NTM is a non profit organisation, initiated in 1993 and aiming at
establishing a common base of values on how to calculate the environmental
performance for various modes of transport.
http://www.ntm.a.se/english/eng-index.asp
Green Logistics
is a four year
EPSRC-funded
research project in the UK into the sustainability of logistics systems and
supply chain. The project will be undertaken by a consortium of 6 UK
universities, and will be supported and steered by a range of project partners
including the Department of Transport and CILT.
http://greenlogistics.org
The International council on Clean Transportation
http://www.theicct.org/
ERA-NET TRANSPORT, financed by
the European Commission coordinates Transport Research in the European Union
http://transport-era.net
BESTLOG,
initiated by the European Commission, will establish an exchange platform for
the improvement of supply chain management practice across Europe.
http://bestlog.org
BEST is a Thematic
Network under the European Commission's Fifth Framework Programme for Research,
Technological development and Demonstration, Key Action 2 'Sustainable Mobility
and Intermodality', co-ordinated by the Directorate-General for Transport and
Energy.
http://bestransport.org/cadrebest.html
ECTRI, the European Conference of Transport Research Institutes,
is an international non-profit organisation that was founded in April 2003. Its
members are 20 major transport research institutes or universities from European
countries. Together, they account for more than 3000 European scientific and
research staff in the field of transport.
http://ectri.org/
TRANSPORTNET is
a network of university groups involved in Transport Research and education,
from several European countries, created in March 2003. These groups are located
in schools of Economics and of Engineering, and their activities cover all modes
and geographical ranges of transport.
http://transportnet.org
Research and
Technology for Mobility and Transport, Germany
http://tuvpt.de
Consortium for Research and Development of Technologies for
Innovative Transport, Italy
http://consorziotrain.com
GAVE is programme of the Dutch government to support the
implementation of the European Biofuels Guideline. This guideline aims to
promote the use of biofuels for transport and mobility
http://gave.novem.nl/gave/
The European
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology Platform (HFP) facilitates and accelerates the
development and deployment of cost-competitive, world class European hydrogen
and fuel cell based energy systems and component technologies for applications
in transport, stationary and portable power.
MindsinMotion.net
(MiM) is an online community and learning network on sustainable
mobility. The MiM portal is currently focused on three main themes: Alternative
Fuels, Clean Buses and Hydrogen for Mobility
http://mindsinmotion.net/index.php/mim
SEI Stockhom Environment Institute Sustainable Consumption Web
Site
http://regionalsustainability.org
BESTUFS II
aims to maintain and expand an open European network with respect to City
Logistics Solutions (CLS).
http://bestufs.net/index.html
Transports Concepts of the Future
http://teknologisk.dk/transport/9952
Intelligent Transport Systems
http://its-finland.fi
The mission of
the Japan for Sustainability is to share information on developments and
activities originating in Japan that lead toward sustainability, with the aim of
building momentum toward a sustainable path for the world.
http://www.japanfs.org/index.html
Founded in 1989, T&E is Europe's principal
environmental organisation campaigning on sustainable transport. The primary
focus is on European policy and to promote an environmentally sound approach to
transport.
http://www.transportenvironment.org
The National Council for
Science and the Environment is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
improving the scientific basis for environmental decision making.
http://ncseonline.org
CCAP is an independent, non-profit entity and
believes that market-based approaches to environmental problems offer the
greatest potential to reach common ground.
http://www.ccap.org/
International logistics associations
The Institute
for Supply Management™ (ISM) is one of the largest supply management association
in the world. ISM’s membership base includes more than 40,000 supply management
professionals with a network of domestic and international affiliated
associations
http://www.ism.ws/
The European logistics Association provides a vital forum for
those engaged in logistics in Europe and internationally.
http://www.elalog.org
IWLA is the association of the value-added warehousing and
logistics industry in the USA, representing third-party logistics and
warehousing service providers.
http://www.iwla.com/index.aspx
Founded in
1963, the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) is an
preeminent association for individuals involved in supply chain management.
CSCMP provides educational, career development, and networking opportunities to
its over 9,000 members and to the entire profession.
http://cscmp.org/
APICS, The
Association for Operations Management
http://www.apics.org/default.htm
BELGIUM
http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=*TPR
Transport and Mobility Leuven TML studies the
problems that occur with mobility and logistics. TML research focuses on
traffic management, transport economics, environment, traffic safety and the
consequences for society.
http://www.tmleuven.be/home.htm
DENMARK
Centre for Logistics and Freight Transport, Technical University
of Denmark
http://www.ctt.dtu.dk/projects/clg
FRANCE
INRETS – Institut National de la Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité
http://www.inrets.fr
CERTU – Centre d’Etudes sur les Réseaux, les Transports, L’Urbanisme et les
Constructions Publique
http://www.certu.fr
Université de Lyon 2,
Laboratoire d’Economie des Transports
http://www.let.fr
ITALY
ISFORT High Institute for Transport Education and Research
http://www.isfort.it
NETHERLANDS
CE Delft. Leading Independent Dutch research and
consultancy organisation specialising in developing innovative solutions
environmental problems
http://www.ce.nl/eng/index.html
TRAIL The Netherlands Research School for Transport,
Infrastructure and Logistics
http://www.trail.tudelft.nl
UNITED KINGDOM
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK
http://www.ciltuk.org.uk/pages/home
The Logistics
Research Centre (LRC), based in the School of Management and Languages at Heriot-Watt
University, is one of the main centres in the UK for research on freight
transport and logistics.
http://www.sml.hw.ac.uk/logistics/
Institute for transport studies, University of Leeds
http://www.its.leeds.ac.uk/
USA
The MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
http://ctl.mit.edu
The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems
Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
http://www.isye.gatech.edu/
Alliance for Transportation
Research Institute,
University of New Mexico
www.unm.edu/~atr/index.html
Center for Urban
Transportation Research (CUTR),
University of South Florida
www.cutr.usf.edu/
Environmetal Law
Commission on
Environmental Law of the World Conservation Union CEL advances
environmental law by developing new legal concepts and instruments, and by
building the capacity of societies to employ environmental law for conservation
and sustainable development
http://www.iucn.org/themes/law/
The International Network for Environmental
Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) is a network of government and non-government
enforcement and compliance practitioners from more than 150 countries
http://www.inece.org/
PACE Law School
http://appserv.pace.edu
International Conventions
International Convention for the Prevention of
Pollution from Ships, 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto
(MARPOL 73/78)
http://www.imo.org/Conventions/contents.asp?doc_id=678&topic_id=258
Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution
from Land-based Sources (1974)
http://www.opcw.org/html/db/cwc/more/marine1974.html
Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (1999)
http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html
Emission charges and subsidies
Environmental Tax Policy Institute, The Vermont Law School
http://www.vermontlaw.edu/elc/envirotax/index.cfm
Environmental Taxation Worldwide Website. The
purpose of this website is to disseminate information on environmental taxation
issues which exist around the world.
http://www.greentaxes.org/
Impact on the
environment of increased production and consumption are growing. Sustainable
consumption and production (SCP) has become more prominent on the policy agenda
although few substantive results have yet emerged. The impacts on the
environment of increased production and consumption are growing. The challenge
for all countries is to break the link between economic growth and environmental
impacts from consumption, resource use and waste generation. The fourth
Environmental Assessment Report for Europe has just been published by the
European Environment Agency.
http://reports.eea.europa.eu/state_of_environment_report_2007_1/en/chapter6.pdf
Environmental Valuation & Cost Benefit News covers legal, academic, and
regulatory developments pertaining to the valuation of environmental amenities
and disamenities, such as clean air, trees, parks, congestion, and noise.
http://envirovaluation.org/index.php
The paradoxes of Green Logistics, Jean-Paul Rodrigue, Brian Slack, Claude
Comtois
http://people.hofstra.edu/Jean-paul_Rodrigue/downloads/Green%20Logistics.pdf
Centre for Air transport and the Environment
Aviation and shipping emissions. Historical and future scenarios and their
radiative impacts,
A
logistical Perspective on the Fuel Efficiency of Road Freight Transport,
Professor Alan C. McKinnon, School of Management, Heriot – Watt University, UK
http://www.sml.hw.ac.uk/logistics/pdf/IEA-ECMT.pdf
Greenhouse gas emissions from Heavy Duty Vehicles
in the EU
http://www.theicct.org/documents/GuenterHoermandinger-1.pdf
Clean gasoline and diesel. The foundation for
modern vehicles and clean air
http://www.theicct.org/documents/Sulfur_policymaker_brief_ICCT_2004.pdf
ICAO Environmental Report 2007
http://www.icao.int/icao/en/env/pubs/Env_Report_07.pdf
Measurement and
Benchmarking of Key Performance Indicators in the Food Supply Chain (Vehicle
Utilisation and Energy Efficiency in the Food Supply Chain, Professor Alan C.
McKinnon, School of Management, Heriot – Watt University, UK
http://www.sml.hw.ac.uk/logistics/pdf/KPI98.pdf
To shift of not to shift, that's the question.
The environmental performance for freight and passanger transport modes in the
light of policy making, CE Delft, RIVM
http://www.rapportsysteem.nl/artikel/index.php?id=66&action=read#
Industry Research and Technical Development on Vehicles and Energy, L.G.
Rosengren, AB Volvo
http://www.ertrac.org/pdf/news/Rosengren.pdf
Research and Technical Development on
Infrastructure and ITS, G. Zimmermeyer, Robert Bosch
http://www.ertrac.org/pdf/news/Zimmermeyer.pdf
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics