Identifying Carbon Reduction Potentials in Road Transportation: Creating a Carbon-Tracking Tool for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Groschopf, Wolfram; Fuerst, Elmar; Kummer, Sebastian; Herold, David

Identifying Carbon Reduction Potentials in Road Transportation: Creating a Carbon-Tracking Tool for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

Environmental and Climate Technologies

Volume 23 (2019): Issue 1 (March 2019)

By: Wolfram Groschopf, Elmar Fuerst, Sebastian Kummer and David Herold

Open Access

|Jul 2019

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rtuect-2019-0007 | Journal eISSN: 2255-8837 | Journal ISSN: 1691-5208

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Language: English

Page range: 98 - 110

Published on: Jul 19, 2019

Published by: Riga Technical University

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Keywords:

Carbon reduction,

CO₂,

carbon tracking tool,

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