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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:black">Special Issue on </span><b><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:black">Climate Neutral Supply Chains</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:black"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> at <span class="ContentPasted1 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">International
Journal of Logistics Management. </span></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background:white">The special issue aims to extend the focus of supply chain and logistics research from carbon neutrality to climate neutrality.<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background:white">We
invite papers that advance theoretical understanding of how firms of various sizes and sectors can achieve climate neutrality through their logistics operations and supply chain management practices.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background:white">Submission Close Date<span class="ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;margin:0px;padding:0in">: 16th of February, 2023. </span></span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;padding:0in;color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background:white">Submissions
must be made through the Journal's online manuscript management system. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:black"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;padding:0in;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background:white">Guest Editors: <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;padding:0in;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background:white">Emel Aktas: <i class="ContentPasted0">Cranfield University</i><br class="ContentPasted0">
Prabhjot S. Mukandwal: <i class="ContentPasted0">Wayne State University</i><br class="ContentPasted0">
Laharish Guntuka: <i class="ContentPasted0">Rochester Institute of Technology</i><br class="ContentPasted0">
Vamsi Sai Krishna Paluvadi: </span><span lang="DA" class="ContentPasted0" style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;padding:0in;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background:white">Runaya, (ESG Manager)</span><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;padding:0in;color:rgb(51, 51, 51);background:white"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">List of themes and key features of the Special Issue:<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<li style="font-size:12pt"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">Climate neutrality for supply chains: Measurements, data, and information <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li style="font-size:12pt"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">Decarbonization of supply chain operations<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li style="font-size:12pt"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">GHG Scope 1, 2 and 3 Emissions and their implications for supply chain management<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li style="font-size:12pt"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">Energy Conservation and green energy for logistics<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li style="font-size:12pt"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">Zero-carbon freight logistics<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li style="font-size:12pt"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">Performance implications for supply chain management under explicit climate neutrality objective <o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li style="font-size:12pt"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">Consumer behavior – logistics service interface: reducing GHG emissions and packaging waste in the context of home deliveries<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li style="font-size:12pt"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">The role of emissions trading in achieving climate neutral supply chains<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li><li style="font-size:12pt"><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)">Efforts to reduce plastic use, energy consumption, water footprint, biodiversity loss, and waste to operate climate-neutral supply
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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times;margin:0px;color:black">For more information, please refer <a href="https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/climate-neutral-supply-chains" class="ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px"><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;margin:0px;padding:0in;color:blue">https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/climate-neutral-supply-chains</span></a><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></li></ul>
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