Hi, I'm doing scientific research about "The impacts of green logistics performance on economic growth: Evidence from China". This is my first time doing research, so my idea gets troubles a lot, I want to ask you guys some questions.
Firstly, about my idea, I am having problems collecting logistics activities data. I don't know whether the data I collect is in a country that has applied green logistics or not because it is only written as "logistic performance index".
Secondly, my instructor wondered why I chose China (in my opinion, because China emits a lot of CO2 so it will be easy to evaluate the impact of applying green logistics on the economy), but she told me that it is not the case, so I have to consider about it again.
It would be great if you could answer ( any websites to collect data..) and give me directions for this idea, I'm a freshman in this field :(. Thank you so much
That is a really interesting question and i tries to work on a similar product based problem during my bachelors and here is just an opinion based on my experience-
1) You need to divide the emissions on the basis of Scope 1,Scope 2 and Scope 3 and if we think of this problem not as a logistic proboems but as a supply chain problem.
2) The data for scope 3 emissions firstly is not available, secondly the available one is not reliable, this is the main problem.
3) Even though scope 3 emissions data is not available as a single entity but now lets divide it into categories - air, water and land. Now try to find a country which uses air as its major form of transportation and not water or land because emissions from air logistics can still be tracked and accuntable data can be found, then maybe using that data to somehow figure how much other modes are emitting.
Now the reason why i am suggesting this - Even though countries like China and India emit a lot but remember that these are energy and manufacturing emissions, logistics emissions are extremely small as these countries have already adapted to railwasy which in the case of india are running on 97% electricity only (green logisticcs) and railways accounts for a major chunk of logistics) and compare this with a country like Green land where the only reliable mode of transportation is planes.
I hope i was able to help you