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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 - 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 - 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

Non-government organisations

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

Department of Transport and Regional Economics, University of  Antwerp
 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/

Interesting articles 

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

Glossary of terms

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
 http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics