Green Freight Europe was invited to the 2nd EcoTransIT World Stakeholder Workshop which took place on 18 April 2012 at Hapag-Lloyd Headquarters in Hamburg. Several Green Freight Europe member companies attended the workshop.

The Green Freight Europe programme was represented by Chantal van Schaik from TNT Express. She presented a short introduction to the vision of the Green Freight Europe programme, a list of members, an insight in the governance structure and a short status update on the developments of the programme. The audience was interested to see the programme's intentions for labelling green transport in the near future and seemed positive towards the developments and ambitions.

The main contents of the workshop were:

• Giving insight into latest developments of the online calculator EcoTransIT World
• Showing features as well as best practices
• Opening the floor to a new platform of networking and exchanging experience- a platform across companies and modes searching for alignment of data and methodologies. To this end other initiatives of carbon accounting (such as Green Freight Europe, Clean Cargo Working Group and NTM) presented their activities.

During the workshop it became quite apparent that all initiatives share the opinion there is a need for alignment of methodologies and initiatives. The CEN standards as presented during the workshop covers many aspects of carbon accounting and reporting but will not resolve all issues in alignment. There was also still some debate on the necessity of a regulatory or voluntary approach. The EU representative of DG Move was very interested to hear the opinion of the audience on the role the EU should play in this field. Green Freight Europe is likely to be invited to join further discussions on these topics.

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