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The Fraunhofer institute has published an updated Guide for GHG emissions accounting at logistics hubs. The updated version 2 of the guide covers new terms and requirements set by ISO 14083. The guide provides advice on how to carbon audit logistics hubs with a view to performing logistics chains calculation. Therefore, the guide outlines requirements and options set by the ISO 14083 as well as clarifies new terms and abbreviations used in the ISO document, further detailed with view to logistics hubs and relevant assessment boundaries. It provides guidance on collecting data, definition of hub operation categories (HOCs) as well as calculating GHG emission intensity values, both with and without allocation. Reporting as required by the ISO 14083 is summarised and examples for different tasks within GHG emissions calculation of logistics hubs are given. Additional guidance is given in relation to measuring energy consumption, partitioning electricity use at the level of activity clusters, suppliers’ electricity mixes and on-site generation as well as average GHG emission intensity values for logistics hubs.

For further implementation, reference is made to the online REffTool that supports the data collection and calculation of GHG emissions and related KPIs as described in the guide. More information is available via this link.