What is being described here: 'supply chain management practices and strategies that reduce the environment and energy footprint of freight distribution'?
Freight distribution gives us the clue that the correct answer is 'green logistics'.
One of the learning outcomes (also called 'assessment criteria' or 'indicative content') for this course is 'Defining organisational value for money to include social outcomes -- such as the use of local labour and participation of XXX and / or YYY groups'. Replace XXX and YYY with which words?
Disadvantaged / minority.
It is possible to deliver value for money in a socially responsible way - indeed some advocates sug-gest that business performance can be radically improved by implementing measures such as em-ploying disadvantaged people, as diversity, motivation, retention, etc factors come into play.
'Some food items, such as XXX, might get damaged by vibrations from a truck'.
Soft fruit: peaches, raspberries, strawberries, for example.
Approximately what percentage of costs, of running heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), is accounted for by fuel costs?
The correct answer is roughly one-third, or 33%.
This means that fuel costs are very important to road haulage firms, and alternative means of either transportation or power for trucks would be desirable, both to reduce costs and to aid the environ-ment.
Using your learning and your experience, what do you think the other main costs are of running a heavy goods vehicle fleet? I'll leave you to come up with some of the key areas yourself.
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UNFCCC negotiations led to which protocol in 1997, on the subject of climate change and the re-duction of emissions globally?
Kyoto, 1997.
Most recent global conference on this issue was in Glasgow, Scotland in 2022.
The other answers have no connection: 'The Fourth Protocol' is a novel by Frederick Forsyth.
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