The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport signed a Joint Declaration of Intent with the Federal Republic of Germany last week to “advance and expand the frontiers of green logistics and mobility”, departmental MEC, Ismail Vadi announced.
The objective is to enhance collaboration between Gauteng and Germany by improving the freight sector through the joint development of a Greener Logistics indicator (GLI-X) system.
“The idea is to get the freight and logistic sector in Gauteng to be safer, to move faster and to be more conscious of the environment,” said Vadi.
According to him, this will be accomplished through seminars and workshops of business, experts, regulators, civil society and other relevant stakeholders, as well as by encouraging cooperation among freight companies, the public sector and private organisations.
State secretary to the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Gunther Adler, said Germany had chosen South Africa, and Gauteng in particular, as the first country and region on the African continent to develop and implement the GLI-X Project.
According to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) South Africa, “the transport of people and goods in South Africa is heavily dependent on fossil fuels, making the transport sector the second-highest contributor to the country’s greenhouse gas (’carbon’) emissions after the energy sector”.
World Wildlife Fund SA said that finding ways to reduce emissions from transport would go a long way to towards solving the country’s emissions challenge.
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