GoGreen Plus* - your contribution to sustainable shipping in Germany

Private customers can find information about receiving parcels with GoGreen Plus* here.

By using GoGreen Plus*, you actively enable CO2e-reduced shipping of your goods and contribute to climate protection in Germany.

The reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) is achieved through additional investments in appropriate measures within the German logistics network of Deutsche Post and DHL, known as "insetting." Examples include the use of alternative fuels or the deployment of electric trucks.

The CO2e reductions generated through insetting are allocated to our GoGreen Plus* customers based on a "book-and-claim" mechanism.

The benefits of GoGreen Plus*

  • Actual CO2e reduction: Transport-related emissions from your shipments are proportionally accounted for and directly reduced within our own logistics network in Germany - depending on the measures implemented - by approximately 95%.
  • Reliable verification: You receive an annual certificate, independently audited, confirming your reduced CO2e emissions.

  • Visible commitment: References in shipment information make your climate protection efforts transparent and understandable to customers and the general public.

Climate protection through carbon reduction

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"We're delighted to be working together with DHL and the GoGreen Plus* pilot to set a new market standard. By effectively avoiding carbon emissions, we're tackling the carbon footprint problem at the source and thus rendering transport itself sustainable in a far more meaningful way."

Karl Trautmann, Executive Board Member at ElectronicPartner

"We at Sky have been championing sustainability for years now. Given our company's history, we couldn't be more pleased to be part of such an innovative pilot project, and to be working together with DHL and GoGreen Plus* to imagine new and better paths forward in carbon neutrality."

Christian Patz, Senior Vice President Customer Operations Sky Deutschland

"By deploying specific strategies to avoid and reduce emissions, we at dm are consistently reducing our environmental impact. We are very pleased to be working together with our partner DHL to drive sustainable parcel shipping and in doing so make an important contribution to climate protection in goods transport as part of the GoGreen Plus* pilot project."

Christian Bodi, Managing Director for Logistics at dm

FAQs about DHL GoGreen Plus*

Due to the limited availability of the GoGreen Plus* service, please talk to us directly to find out whether you can use the service. If you are already a business customer, please contact your sales representative if you are interested. If you are not yet a business customer, please mention that you would like to use GoGreen Plus* when your customer account is activated. You can find out how to become a business customer here.

GoGreen Plus* is a service solution for our customers who have ambitious sustainability targets and are willing to cooperate with us to bring a transformation of the logistics network you use to send your shipments. 

You can find more information at www.GoGreenPlus.de.

Insetting involves investing in carbon reduction measures within the company's own value chain to reduce carbon emissions at source.

With GoGreen Plus*, we make targeted investments in alternative fuels and energy sources as well as the associated infrastructure. In this way, we reduce greenhouse gas emissions directly within our transport and logistics chain. For the implementation of these measures within the GoGreen Plus* service, we follow the framework of the Smart Freight Centre, the so-called MBM Framework.

  • Alternative fuels in transport (trucks): For collection and linehaul operations, we use biogas or bio CNG (CNG = Compressed Natural Gas) as an alternative to diesel. For long-distance transport, particularly between sorting centers, we deploy bio LNG (LNG = Liquefied Natural Gas). In addition, we use HVO100 (hydrotreated vegetable oil) as a synthetic diesel substitute produced from waste and residual materials (e.g. used cooking oil), as well as electric trucks powered by renewable electricity as a direct replacement for diesel-powered vehicles.

  • Sustainable last-mile delivery: Our electrically powered delivery vehicles are charged with renewable electricity at delivery depots. Compared to diesel-powered delivery vehicles, this results in no greenhouse gas emissions during delivery operations (CO2e-free delivery).

  • More sustainable energy for buildings and sites: We procure biogas certificates corresponding to the injection of a defined amount of biogas into the German natural gas grid. In addition, we equip further delivery depots in newly built, owned facilities with air-source heat pumps to replace fossil energy sources previously used for heating. Around 95% of our electricity consumption is already covered by renewable electricity-through power purchase agreements as well as certificates. This electricity is used to supply our electric vehicles, heat pumps, and overall building operations.

Yes, insetting is verified by the external auditor SGS (Société Générale de Surveillance). After that, a GoGreen Plus* certificate is issued once a year. You will also have the opportunity to receive confirmation of your participation in GoGreen Plus* at any time.

In your GoGreen Plus* certificate, we will also certify your improvement in CO2e emission intensity. The "improvement in CO2e emission intensity" (= CO2e emissions per shipment) provides additional information on the extent to which a CO2e reduction measure actually reduces emissions.

Our statement on the improvement in CO2e emission intensity states the percentage by which greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by our emission-reducing technology in comparison with standard technology.

For example, the CO2e emission intensity of a CNG truck that runs on biogas is approximately 90% lower than that of a diesel truck, so using a biogas truck instead of diesel truck would be said to improve CO2e emission intensity by 90%.

In this way, CO2e emission intensity can be used to provide comparability in the environmental impact of different process performances (for example, using different fuels) for the same service or activity (for example, transporting a shipment), thereby highlighting the sustainability of using alternative technologies.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol specifies "emission intensity" as an important unit of measurement in enabling comparability between different ways of performing the same process.

Previously, sustainability services in the logistics market have been based on the compensation principle (offsetting). With GoGreen Plus*, our innovative, insetting-based service, we make it possible for you to reduce CO2e emissions in our logistics network altogether. Together with you, we are contributing to the development of new approaches in the market. By using GoGreen Plus*, you become a first mover - someone who genuinely reduce CO2e emissions. And by communicating your active environmental commitment, you are also creating an opportunity to gain a competitive edge in the market.

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*GoGreen Plus is a value-added service to a Deutsche Post and DHL shipment contributing to decarbonization measures within Deutsche Post and DHL's logistics network. By using alternative fuels and technologies, Deutsche Post and DHL reduces the usage of fossil fuels in the mode of transport and in buildings used for GoGreen Plus shipments. This does not necessarily mean that the specific shipment is physically transported with vehicles or handled via facilities using these fuels or technologies. Further information, e.g. on concrete decarbonization measures, is available at www.GoGreenPlus.de.