by Walther Ploos van Amstel
On 1 January 2018, the municipality of Amsterdam changed the system for the reception of unaddressed mail from presumed consent to explicit consent to reduce paper waste. This policy can be defined as a default nudge. The no-choice population received unaddressed mail in the presumed consent system but not in the new explicit consent system. …
Amazon posted stronger-than-expected sales for the 2022 holiday shopping season. Net sales for Amazon, which has been battling cost-conscious consumers and higher costs, were $142.2bn in the last quarter of 2022, up 9 percent from 2021. Sales events during the holiday season offered glimmers of hope that Amazon’s retail business may be staging a recovery, …
Road transport, shippers, and energy groups in Europe have called for carbon-neutral fuels to be recognized as a long-term decarbonization solution, alongside electrification and hydrogen, for a well-functioning and stable EU logistics sector. In a joint letter sent today to EU Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans, IRU, the European Shippers’ Council, and FuelsEurope – representing road …
The economics of decarbonizing fleets are demonstrably viable. Now commercial transport operators need to identify the best way to capture value. McKinsey reports about it based on US data. These segment-specific dynamics are reflected in McKinsey’s financial projections. On a TCO basis, light-commercial vehicles LCVs are already “in the money,” and they expect medium-duty trucks …
Little progress has been made in recent years toward achieving a fully circular economy by 2050 and halving abiotic resource use (abiotic means non-living and is used to refer to the part of habitat or ecosystems that is not living) by 2030. The use of most resources did not decrease. Only fossil fuel use decreased, …