On June 1st, Evalena Falck, Director Strategic Account Management at Scania, attended the STHLM+50 Climate Hub to talk about Scania’s work to decarbonize the road transport sector in a keynote and panel along with other actors in the transport supply chain.
At Scania, we have three pillars of sustainable transport: energy efficiency, renewable fuel & electrification, and smart & safe transport. Together with our partners and customers, we are driving the shift in all three of these areas to move faster towards a sustainable transport system.
Evalena Falck, Director Strategic Account Management at Scania, at the STHLM+50 Climate Hub. Photo by We Don’t Have Time
96% of our emissions come from trucks that are already on the roads, so that is where we need to make the biggest effort. In addition to the target to halve the emissions from our operations by 2025, we have set a target to reduce emissions from our products by 20% until 2025, compared to 2015 levels. Fuel efficiency is an important factor in this, and our recently launched new powertrain is able to reduce fuel consumption by 8%. But the majority of our emissions reductions will come from using new types of fuel.
We are using biomethane, hydrated vegetable oil, and biodiesel depending on the availability of infrastructure, but we still have a long way to go in terms of reducing the carbon footprint of our trucks. Evalena Falck says, "We are encouraged to see the progress when it comes to renewable gas availability and especially in Europe, in North Europe, in Netherlands and Germany but also in Brazil, biomethane is now getting possible to drive, and I think this is an excellent way to reduce CO2. We also work, of course, with hydrated vegetable oil and biodiesel, but here we are relying a lot on the infrastructure availability as well."
From left to right: Evalena Falck (Scania), Jimmi Paulsen (Alfa Laval), Massimo D'Alessandro (HAVI), Martin Andersen (Scan Global), Nick Nuttall, (We Don’t Have Time). Photo by We Don’t Have Time.
Electrifying long haul transports is another solution with a lot of potential to reduce emissions. In the coming years, we will have an electric truck that can drive for 4,5 hours on a 45-minute charge. This technology can significantly reduce road transport emissions, but only if the public charging infrastructure is there. Today, we are faced with a significantly higher cost for fast chargers for trucks than for cars. We are doing our share to bridge this gap by working with our competitors to install 1700 charging points on the main roads of Europe, but we need more support from governments to increase the supply of affordable, renewable energy in the grid. As it stands, we could reduce the lifecycle carbon footprint of our trucks by 55% if the European energy mix was entirely renewable when compared to the energy mix of today. If we are to have a truly decarbonized trucking sector, this is imperative. Watch the full panel discussion from STHLM+50 broadcast to hear Evalena Falck, Director Strategic Account Management at Scania, talk about the challenges, opportunities, and the sustainability leadership role of Scania to take on the challenges and relentlessly work on the solutions:
https://youtu.be/Su-0nbufMSc?t=4249
We understand that sustainability has many dimensions and we are focused on embedding sustainability in our products, and above all in our strategy. Andreas Follér, our Head of Sustainability and the Sustainability Manager of the year in Sweden was brief, but clear about our focus. He said, “We were the first company in our industry to set science-based carbon reduction target that ensures that our product development, our strategies are aligned with the Paris Agreement so that we know we are carrying our share.” His panel discussion from STHLM+50 broadcast:
https://youtu.be/HBApGnFtS3o?t=2300
50 years after the very first UN Environment Conference, placing nature and poverty at the forefront of the international agenda, Stockholm welcomed the world again in June 2022. Together with partners, We Don'tHave Time and UNDP hosted a public arena for the entire week of Stockholm+50, leading up to World Environment Day 2022.
The five-day event was broadcast live from SPACE Arena in central Stockholm. On Twitter alone, the broadcasts reached more than 31 million viewers from 160 countries.
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The lack of measures surrounding the reduction of carbon emissions and management rather will ultimately be our downfall unless arrested in due time.
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Pretending we can, should run anything more than a tiny fraction of our transport on any form of bio-fuel is very close to greenwashing! A) we should be producing very little biofuel from waste. We need to cut waste to absolute minimum B) fuel from crops will just destroy environments, and have transport fuel competing with food for the poor C) biofuel should be reserved only for those situations where batteries, hydrogen, fuel cells cannot provide for an indispensable service.
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I agree ..We should decarbonize the transport sector ASAP
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This is a crucial change that needs to happen quickly in order to transports to be decarbonised fast enough. Until this happens, we need to drastically reduce transports as much as possible, while continuing to decarbonise the transports that need to happen as fast as possible.