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Climate change mitigation efforts among transportation and manufacturing companies: The current state of efforts in Sweden according to available documentation
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering, Strategic Sustainability Studies.
LTH, Div Risk Management & Societal Safety, Lund, Sweden..
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Real Estate and Construction Management.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1910-5809
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Real Estate and Construction Management.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4394-4020
2018 (English)In: Journal of Cleaner Production, ISSN 0959-6526, E-ISSN 1879-1786, Vol. 196, p. 588-593Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Globally, transportation and manufacturing emit large amount of greenhouse gases that needs to be lowered for reaching agreed upon slim ate goals. In this context evidence of mitigation activities among eighty-five companies and their forty-five parent companies in these two polluting sectors were traced focusing on a country that has committed itself to leading the implementation of ambitious climate mitigation goals worldwide. Documentation from the companies in the transportation and manufacturing sectors was scrutinized (yearly reports, homepages and sustainability reports, if available) for evidence of any mitigation efforts, including emissions reporting and reduction goals. The study's results found that two thirds of the companies seemed to have done nothing to mitigate climate change, while efforts in the remaining companies were modest at best; mitigation activities among the forty-five parent companies were only slightly more ambitious. The implications of these depressing findings are discussed in the light of possible caveats and the possibilities of new policy measures such as gender quotas in company boards. The conclusion is that the study's results most likely reflect reality in the studied sectors and that novel approaches and more sector oriented research is needed in the quest for a carbon-neutral society..

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD , 2018. Vol. 196, p. 588-593
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Transportation sector, Manufacturing, Climate change, Mitigation, Policy Measures
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-235574DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.06.007ISI: 000444364400049Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85049308493OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-235574DiVA, id: diva2:1252243
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Available from: 2018-10-01 Created: 2018-10-01 Last updated: 2024-03-18Bibliographically approved

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