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"Climate Change" * Denmark - Global postal industry sets 20% carbon reduction target by 2020
International Post Corporation announces first global services industry target and release of the industry’s first sustainability report
Copenhagen,Denmark -IPC, Press Releases -11 Dec 2009: -- The postal industry today became the first services sector to set a global emissions target for the industry when the International Post Corporation (IPC), which represents the world’s leading post operators, today announced that 20 postal operators will work together to collectively reduce their carbon emissions by 20 percent by 2020, based on 2008 levels... The commitment to an industry-wide carbon reduction target was announced at a panel discussion on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). During the discussion, Jean-Paul Bailly, Chairman of the International Post Corporation and CEO of Groupe La Poste, presented the industry’s first IPC Postal Sector Sustainability Report on the Environment... IPC members manage over 100,000 facilities and 600,000 transport vehicles. The 20 posts that contributed to the Sustainability Report collectively currently emit 8.36 million tonnes of CO2. The target set will reduce that total to 6.69 million tonnes by 2020... The 20 post operators who took part in the EMMS report and have together set the joint emissions reduction target are: An Post, Ireland; Australia Post; Canada Post; Correios de Portugal; Correos y Telégrafos, Spain; Deutsche Post DHL, Germany; Groupe La Poste, France; Hellenic Post, Greece; Itella, Finland; De Post/La Poste, Belgium; Magyar Posta, Hungary; New Zealand Post; Norway Post; Posten Norden, Denmark and Sweden; Postes et Télécommunications Luxembourg; Royal Mail, United Kingdom; Swiss Post; TNT, The Netherlands; and the United States Postal Service... (Picture from wikivisual: Post Office Box)
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