Postal Sector Sustainability
Three years ago the International Post Corporation launched its Environmental Measurement and Monitoring System (EMMS), the first ever global approach to carbon reduction for a services industry. In 2009 we set as our goals an ambitious challenge to cut the global postal sector’s carbon emissions by 20%, and to continue our expansion of the global postal sustainability programme to extend its impact as widely as possible across the world.
The 2011 IPC Postal Sector Sustainability Report was published on Thursday 08 December during COP 17 in Durban, South Africa.
In 2010 postal operators under IPC’s global postal sustainability programme collectively reduced CO2 emissions by 329,000 tonnes, equivalent to a cut of 4.2%. Added to the cuts announced last year, this means that in just two years the global postal industry is more than half way to achieving its target of cutting 20% of emissions by 2020.
The initiative was launched with a benchmark report during the global climate change conference (COP 15) at Copenhagen in December 2009.