Implémentation d'un outil de suivi des rejets de CO2 des expéditions de Magotteaux Liège S.A.

Abstract

This project-dissertation aims at supporting the Belgian company, Magotteaux Liège S.A., dealing with an environmental namely its carbon dioxide emissions. The scope of the project is limited to the shipments of Vaux-Sous-Chèvremont’s plant. Indeed, nowadays, companies are progressively including environmental concerns in their day-to-day management by implementing Environmental Management Systems. Theoretical research has shown that the level of CO2 in the atmosphere has risen since the beginning of the industrial era. It has been proven, up to 95%, that this rise was due to human activities and transportation activities are not negligible. In fact, these activities are responsible for a quarter of all the European emissions. That is the reason why helping companies decreasing their transportation activities’ environmental footprint is a key challenge. To help the companies evaluating their environmental impact, several tools have been developed. In the case of Magotteaux, the “Bilan Carbone®” method is used. The results of this CO2 emissions’ evaluation showed that, environmentally speaking, the use of two means of transport, road and air transports, should be reduced and that the sea and rail transports should be favoured. This could be achieved thanks to the combination of different means of transport, which is called the multimodal transport. Two different tools, still in development, will be considered in the future. On the one hand, the first one will help the company tracking all the CO2 of its transportation activities in real time and, on the other hand, the second one will help the employees in the decision making process of the transportation companies’ choice. However, in the development of this project, I have been confronted to some limitations in the research and sharing of environmental data.