The International Post Corporation (IPC) has launched an environmental measurement and monitoringsystem providing a common carbon measurement and reporting framework for the global postal
industry.The launch and formal adoption by IPC member postal operators including Australia, Austria,Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland,Italy, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands, and the UK, tookplace at IPC’s Annual Conference 2008 in La Chapelle en Serval, France on 30 May.
The system provides the postal industry with a transparent, scientific, sector specificcarbon management and measurement system based on the requirements of international best practicestandards such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, DJSI, FTSE4Good, ISO 14001, and current bestpractice from the corporate environment.
It evaluates performance through the application of a scoring system that grades performancein ten carbon management proficiency areas and in key numeric carbon efficiency indicators. Thesystem will be piloted in 2008, with results from the first round of measurement expected to beannounced in November 2009.
“This is the first time that a supply industry has come together to address its impact on theenvironment,” said Herbert-Michael Zapf, CEO of IPC. “The IPC Environmental Measurement andMonitoring System provides our members with a way of measuring and benchmarking their initiativesand optimizing their effectiveness. It can be used by all postal operators, regardless of sizeor what stage they are at in their environmental programs.”
“By working together on this issue and sharing best practice, our members have shown theircommitment to tackling their carbon emissions,” said Jean-Paul Bailly, chairman and CEO of GroupeLa Poste in France and chairman of the IPC Board. “We hope that this initiative will be used as amodel by other industries who want to take action to reduce their carbon footprint.”
