Lean and Green: Six companies join the second round
After a first successful programme that awarded the first four companies in Luxembourg, the Cluster for Logistics has launched the the second edition of the LEAN and GREEN programme and sixcompanies are participating. A Luxembourg-based company which can demonstrate through an action plan that it will be able to reduce its CO2 emissions by 20% in five years’ time becomes eligible for the LEAN and GREEN Award. We will disclose the names of the participants at a later date. Stay in touch.
LEAN and GREEN is an international stimulation programme by non-governemental organisation Connekt for companies and organizations aiming to encourage businesses and public bodies to move to a higher level of sustainability, by taking measures that yield cost savings and reduce the impact on the environment at the same time. The Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure collaborated with the Cluster for Logistics in order to implement the Label for transport & logistics companies in Luxembourg.
Like in 2014 and 2015 the Cluster and Logistics in Wallonia will orgainze workshops in order to help the companies to develop sound action plans. These action plans will be evaluated by an independent third party.
The first winners in 2015
Arthur Welter, CFL multimodal, Luxair CARGO and POST have been awarded the LEAN and GREEN for Logistics Label on May 18th jointly by the Secretary of State of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure, Camille Gira, and Nico Anten, Managing Director of Connekt. From then on, they use the official logo on their trucks and other vehicles.
Initiated in the Netherlands in 2007 by the agency Connekt, the LEAN and GREEN programme now concerns more than 350 companies in the Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg. This label is becoming an essential European recognition model for frontrunner companies in their quest to reduce CO2 emissions and thereby protect the environment. The project is continually growing in Europe. In Luxembourg the Ministry of Sustainable Development started to implement this program in 2014 with the help of the Cluster for Logistics. The Cluster for Logistics Luxembourg with the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Infrastructure is the fifth chapter allowed to award the ecological label LEAN and GREEN across Europe.
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