FedEx announced today that shipping with its Global Envelope will become carbon-neutral thanksto emission offsetting at no extra charge.
The FedEx Express envelope, which is already made from 100% recycled content and is 100%recyclable, will go CO2-neutral under the new shipping programme for the company’s most widely usedpackaging solution. The programme covers all FedEx Express envelope shipping options, FirstOvernight, Priority Overnight, Standard Overnight, 2Day, Economy 2Day A.M. and ExpressSaver. More than 200 million FedEx Envelopes are shipped around the world every year.
FedEx Express will make an investment in projects around the world that displace or sequestergreenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere, neutralising the impacts of the carbon emissionsemitted during the shipment of all FedEx Express envelopes around the world. The initiative ispart of EarthSmart, the FedEx sustainability programme.
“FedEx is continuously seeking new solutions for our customers’ logistics challenges and thesame is true for the challenges facing our planet,” said Rajesh Subramaniam, senior vice president,Global Marketing, FedEx Services. “By making FedEx Envelope’s shipping carbon-neutral, we areextending our support for renewable energy solutions—innovations today that we hope will bestandards in the future.”
Through the carbon-neutral Fed Ex Envelope shipping programme, FedEx will calculate on an annualbasis the tons of carbon dioxide released through the shipment of all global FedEx Expressenvelopes.
The company will purchase the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide offsets from thenot-for-profit organisation, BP Target Neutral, which will neutralise the equivalent amount of CO2emissions by investing in alternative energy or conservation projects, including biogas facilitieson farms in the Netherlands, a reforestation project in the Tanzanian Southern Highlands that isconverting degraded grassland to commercial forest, and a landfill gas collection system atThailand’s first sanitary landfill.
“FedEx has invested in technologies to directly reduce greenhouse gases from our greatestsources—planes, trucks and facilities—and, as a result, we are well on our way to meeting ambitiousemission reduction goals,” said Mitch Jackson, staff vice president, Environmental Affairs andSustainability, FedEx Corp. “The carbon neutral programme for the FedEx Express envelopeallows us to further contribute to minimising the effects of greenhouse gas emissions from ouroperations by providing more sustainable options for our customers.”
Since 2008, FedEx has set global targets to reduce CO2 emissions from vehicle and airtransport. By the end of FY2011, vehicle fuel efficiencies had improved by more than 16% andaircraft carbon dioxide emissions had declined by 13.8% compared to 2005 levels. In addition, FedExhas six solar installations with a capacity of more than 6 megawatts of clean, renewableenergy.
