11Environmental Considerations When Purchasing Transport Services
A Comparison of Management Approaches Between Swedish and French Shippers
Introduction
The transport sector, which accounts for almost a quarter of Europe’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG),1 generates much debate, study and discussion regarding how to decrease this impact. All the countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which meet once a year to evaluate the application of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), continuously refer to its negative effect on the environment. When the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), held in 2015 in Paris, concluded an agreement committing 195 states ...
