Varuna Group, a leading logistics provider in India, recognises the growing importance of sustainability within the industry. Committed to taking a proactive approach, Varuna embarked on its journey towards a sustainable future by building with Climes, an innovative carbon emissions calculator. This crucial first step empowers Varuna to measure its environmental impact, laying a strong foundation for the development of effective sustainability strategies.
Embracing sustainability within the logistics industry presented unique challenges for Varuna.
Their diverse fleet, with various capacities and numerous use cases, created a multitude of emission calculation scenarios. Accurately accounting for emissions further requires consideration of other factors like load capacity and unladen weight, as well as increasing complexity.
Compounding these issues, the lack of readily available and transparent industry tools or datasets made calculating emissions a hurdle.
Effectively communicating Varuna's environmental impact to their clients remained a task. The lack of real-time data and a user-friendly tool hampered Varuna's ability to translate its sustainability efforts into clear and actionable information for clients.
Quantifying Carbon Emissions
Leveraging our experience in both technological and carbon accounting, we crafted a formula to address the complexities Varuna faced.
STEP 1 /
Building the Calculator
We delved into Varuna’s specific requirements such as its diverse fleet, with its varying capacities and routes to develop a solution best suited for their needs. This calculator addressed the multifaceted problem, going beyond load capacity, and recorded specific trip details.
STEP 2 /
Seamless Integration
Climes' user-friendly tool seamlessly integrated with Varuna's existing system, eliminating the need for additional software downloads. This ensures effortless adoption by both Varuna and their clients. Data for each client is readily accessible on their Go Green Dashboard, a dedicated portal for clear visualization and convenient use.
STEP 3 /
Data Reporting
The tool enables granular, per-fleet emissions measurement directly on the Go Green Dashboard. This data allowed clients to not only access their real-time shipment carbon emission data and gain clear insights but also identify areas for improvement.
STEP 4 /
Planning Next Steps
Historical data access allows the clients to analyse the plan for emission reduction, and the next steps in their sustainability journey. Clients, further, can purchase carbon credits from Climes to neutralise the residual emissions.
Working towards a sustainable future
About Varuna Group
It was founded in 1996 by Vikas Juneja and Vivek Juneja on the principles of customer-centricity, operational excellence and transparency. Over the years, it has established itself as one of India’s leading providers of technology-enabled logistics services through three business verticals - Varuna Logistics, Varuna Warehousing and Varuna Integrated Services. Powered by the resolve and devotion of 1500+ employees, the organisation has successfully reduced the effective landed cost of products for 300+ clients, coupled with accelerated growth. Setting the standard for efficiency, predictability and reliability across 15+ industries, Varuna Group owns one of India’s largest fleet of 2000+ trucks and one of the largest warehousing space spread across 1.72 million sq. ft. - offering both dedicated and multi-user formats.
About Climes
Climes is India’s leading climate finance company (backed by Sequoia India, now Peak XV), facilitating large-scale financing for building and restoring natural carbon sinks in the global south. Their vision of closing the climate finance gap has led them to service both sides of the carbon market. On one side, Climes originates and aggregates high-quality NbS projects that prioritise permanent carbon removal. Beyond these projects, their suite of proprietary tech products simplify climate action for brands and enterprises and enable the financing of carbon avoidance and removal projects in India. With a strong community of over 200,000 consumers, 70 brand partners, 100K farmers in pipeline, and 375 acres designated for these projects, Climes has enabled avoidance and removal of 3.1 Million Kgs of carbon emissions and is building a pipeline of 500k+ carbon-credits annually.
