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Title Carbon Footprint of Supply Chains: A Scoping Study
Date Posted 12/9/2013
URL http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/ncfrp/ncfrp_w005.pdf
Description TRB's National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) has developed a study on the carbon footprint of supply chains. This project discusses the assessment of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from the transportation component of supply chains, reviews current GHG analysis methods, and outlines a work plan to develop a tool to estimate a supply chain's carbon footprint.

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