Smart Freight Centre
For Leadership And Staff Development
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Amount$56,000
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Program
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Date Awarded6/1/2022
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.smartfreightcentre.org
Address
Keizersgracht 560, Amsteredam, 1017 EM, Netherlands
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Smart Freight Centre (SFC) is a global organization on climate action in the freight sector. Its goal is to guide the global logistics industry to track and reduce its GHG emissions by 1 billion tons by 2030 and reach zero emissions by 2050 or earlier. SFC collaborates with global partners to quantify impacts, identify solutions, and advocate logistics decarbonization strategies. (Substrategies: China National Policy and India National Policy)
for the Sustainable Freight Buyers Alliance and Zero Emission Freight Initiative
The Smart Freight Centre’s mission is to make the global freight and logistics sector more efficient, low carbon, and environmentally sustainable. Freight is a major contributor to climate change and reducing its emissions is now a focus of the electrification substrategy. The centre will implement a global strategy that includes working with private sector actors, shippers, and carriers in measuring emissions, and provide trainings to accelerate the procurement of zero-emission freight vehicles. (Substrategy: Electrification)
