{"title":"Tracking delivery emissions to decarbonize urban couriers","authors":"Mi Gan, Tao Peng","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00426-y","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The rapid expansion of urban logistics networks brings a substantial, yet hidden, environmental cost to our cities. Leveraging smartphone delivery logs from couriers, new research now quantifies the fine-grained greenhouse-gas footprints of last-mile delivery processes, which enables the exploration of actionable strategies for sustainable urban logistics.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 5","pages":"391-392"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3000,"publicationDate":"2026-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Cities","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00426-y","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The rapid expansion of urban logistics networks brings a substantial, yet hidden, environmental cost to our cities. Leveraging smartphone delivery logs from couriers, new research now quantifies the fine-grained greenhouse-gas footprints of last-mile delivery processes, which enables the exploration of actionable strategies for sustainable urban logistics.