One of the significant challenges to achieveing the Green Supply Chain Management objectives is the ecological footprint associated with several logistics operations. In this study, we examine the impact of countries' logistics performance on environmental quality. For this purpose, the study collected data from a panel of 43 global economies over the period of 2010–2016. We used a composite index of logistics performance (LPI) to evaluate logistics performance and the ecological footprint (EFP) to assess environmental quality across diverse countries. Our results indicate that improvements in logistics performance are significantly associated with reductions in ecological footprints after controlling the effects of GDP, imports, exports, and adjusted net national income. These results are promising, and our findings highlight that although LPI initially intends to track the logistics performance without any consideration to the environmental concerns, most of its dimensions are indirectly capturing these concerns. These results compel policymakers to pay special attention to logistics performance, which is undoubtedly one of the most significant segments of global supply chains and may have the potential to make these supply chains greener and more environmentally friendly.

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解锁更绿色的供应链：关于物流绩效在减少生态足迹中的作用的全球创新视角


实现绿色供应链管理目标的重大挑战之一是与多种物流运营相关的生态足迹。在这项研究中，我们研究了各国物流绩效对环境质量的影响。为此，该研究收集了 2010 年至 2016 年期间由 43 个全球经济体组成的小组的数据。我们使用物流绩效综合指数 （LPI） 来评估物流绩效，使用生态足迹 （EFP） 来评估不同国家/地区的环境质量。我们的结果表明，在控制了 GDP、进口、出口和调整后的国民净收入的影响后，物流绩效的改善与生态足迹的减少显着相关这些结果是有希望的，我们的研究结果强调，尽管 LPI 最初打算在不考虑环境问题的情况下跟踪物流绩效，但其大部分维度都间接捕捉到了这些问题。这些结果迫使政策制定者特别关注物流绩效，这无疑是全球供应链中最重要的部分之一，并可能使这些供应链更环保、更环保。