How to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Doorstep Deliveries
Hope McGee In 2024, the International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) was asked by government partners to explore how policymakers could help to reduce the carbon emitted during the last mile of a parcel’s delivery journey. As part of this work, the observatory held an exploratory roundtable with cross-departmental academics at UCL to identify areas for policy action. Following this, we hosted a broader roundtable with representatives from across the freight and delivery landscape, which fed into a systems map to guide our thinking on this subject. This paper explores the trends contributing...