The Book and Claim Community took center stage at Climate Week NYC 2025 with three dedicated events: a technical workshop, the annual Community Table, and a Governance Board meeting. These gatherings brought together more than 100 experts and stakeholders.

Now in its fourth consecutive year at Climate Week (and third since its official launch in 2022), the Community has become the key convening space for advancing credible, aligned book and claim systems across all modes of heavy transport.

The week also marked a major milestone: the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) officially joined Smart Freight Centre (SFC) as co-lead of the Book and Claim Community Secretariat. This partnership strengthens the Secretariat’s role in ensuring transparent governance, supporting technical alignment, and accelerating the development of trusted, interoperable market-based solutions.

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Hosted by Smart Freight Centre in partnership with Amazon, Ceres, and CALSTART, this flagship session gathered over 200 leaders from across the trucking value chain to chart the path toward large-scale deployment of zero-emission trucks.

The conversation underscored a new phase in freight decarbonization — one defined by private-sector leadership amid policy uncertainty in the U.S. Participants agreed that buyers and investors cannot wait for perfect policies: voluntary commitments, procurement guarantees, and innovative financing are already reshaping the market. The message was clear: industry must lead.

Demand aggregation is the flywheel. From joint procurement projects such as ZET SCALE to corridor-focused initiatives like I-10, collaboration among shippers, carriers, infrastructure providers, and financiers is unlocking investment, lowering costs, and directing deployment where diesel parity already exists.

Electric trucks are working today. Drivers love them, fleets cite lower maintenance and improved reliability, and software-driven optimization is emerging as a near-term efficiency lever. With charging lead times outpacing truck purchases, shared heavy-duty charging hubs and well-planned depot networks are vital for operational readiness.

Finance is the enabler. Lenders are ready to invest when clear demand signals, risk-sharing mechanisms, and residual value guarantees are in place.

Finally, a strong theme ran through the session: it takes a village. In the face of policy uncertainty, participants recognized the need to roll up their sleeves and work together to accelerate zero-emission trucking.

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SFC and partners officially launched the Electrifying Drayage Alliance, a global collaboration platform to accelerate zero-emission port operations. The launch brought together shippers, port authorities, and logistics leaders to translate ambition into action by electrifying drayage — one of freight’s most impactful segments.

Connecting six priority ports — Los Angeles/Long Beach, Seattle/Tacoma, New York/New Jersey, Rotterdam, London Gateway, and Shanghai — the Alliance channels collective demand into practical implementation. More than ten committed shippers are already helping to aggregate demand and de-risk investments in electric drayage solutions.

The event underscored that port drayage is a natural fit for electrification. Short-haul, return-to-base routes make total cost of ownership increasingly attractive, while shared infrastructure and coordinated procurement enable faster scaling. Through this initiative, SFC and partners aim to convert collaboration into measurable impact, turning aligned intent into on-the-ground zero-emission operations.

• Read more about our work to scale zero-emission drayage operations

SFC represented its Market-Based Measures Accounting Standard work at the VCI Market-Based Mechanisms event, speaking alongside representatives from the GHG Protocol, ISO, and ISEAL — a significant opportunity to position SFC’s standardization leadership within a global context.

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In partnership with BloombergNEF, SFC released the updated Zero-Emission Commercial Vehicles: Accelerating the Transition 2025 Factbook, reaffirming that zero-emission trucks are an investable asset class.

To mark the release, over 20 shippers, OEMs, and NGOs joined a high-level roundtable to discuss tools to unlock investment and accelerate adoption. The session also explored the Dutra Zero Coalition, aiming to create Brazil’s first zero-emission trucking network, with plans to debut its action charter at COP30.

The report shows that the market for medium and heavy trucks with zero tailpipe emissions continues to grow quickly. Technology development, infrastructure expansion, and policy actions mean electric trucks are already cost-competitive in some countries and use cases.

As the market expands, and manufacturers and operators gain more experience, some of the risks holding back wider adoption are increasingly being addressed. Zero-emission truck sales approached 90,000 units globally in the first half of 2025, almost as many as in the whole of 2024. The global share of sales is on track to approach 4% in 2025.

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Hosted by the Center for Green Market Activation (GMA), RMI, and industry partners, Green Markets Day highlighted how partnerships and aggregated demand can de-risk innovation and enable new financing pathways.

The deployment of SFC member company Nevoya’s Class 8 battery-electric trucks in Texas was celebrated as a milestone for clean freight solutions and a proof point for collaborative scaling. SFC is proud to support both Nevoya and GMA in using its accounting, reporting, and assurance methodology to lead with high-quality market-based practices.

In this forward-looking session, SFC joined experts to explore how industrial policy, electrification, and shifting market dynamics are reshaping the U.S. energy and freight landscape. Discussions focused on building resilient and investable systems capable of sustaining long-term decarbonization momentum.