The DHL Group has set the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 42% by 2030 compared to the base year 2021 for direct and indirect emissions from purchased energy (Scope 1 and 2), as well as by 25% for other indirect emissions (Scope 3). Our mission is to reduce all logistics-related emissions to net zero by 2050. For this reason, company-wide environmental protection programs have been developed, including our nationwide sustainability program in Germany.

With our GoGreen Plus service, we actively reduce CO2e  emissions in shipping, thereby making a positive contribution to climate protection. Together, we support the decarbonization of logistics.

Sustainable shipping with DHL

  • With the new CO2e-Sustainability Report, we provide transparency concerning the carbon emissions generated in your domestic shipments of goods with Deutsche Post and DHL. This enables you to ascertain your company's carbon footprint and produce a company carbon report.1

  • Choosing GoGreen allows you and your company to make an effective contribution to climate protection. With GoGreen, we offset the carbon emissions that arise in transporting your merchandise parcel shipments within Germany and abroad.

  • We are taking the next step towards sustainable shipping with GoGreen Plus. With a selected group of customers we are actively reducing transport-related carbon emissions in national parcel shipping - a measure known as insetting. 

  • And with our sustainable shipping materials (linerless labels and ECO-BAGS) sustainable shipping has never been easier.

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Sustainable delivery by Post and Parcel in Germany

Deliveries made in ~50% of our delivery districts across Germany are already carbon-free: with Streetscooters, e-trikes, e-bikes or on foot.

  • We are consistently converting our delivery fleet by introducing more and more electric vehicles.
  • In conurbations and city centers, furthermore, deliveries of merchandise mail and an increasing number of small-format parcels are now delivered by bike or on foot.
  • This means that one in four DHL parcels and two out of three merchandise mail items are delivered carbon-free.

The vehicle fleet of Deutsche Post & DHL in Germany consists of over 50% electric vehicles.

Sustainable parcel receipt for customers

  • Our DHL recipient services - including preferred drop-off location and Packstation delivery - avoid failed deliveries.
  • Packstations reduce carbon emissions through simultaneous delivery of multiple parcels and pick-up of returns.
  • Digital delivery notifications actively promote paperless processing, doing away with the need for notification cards.

 

 

DPDHL's sustainability offensive

  • By 2030, DHL Group will invest a minimum of EUR7 billion in alternative fuels and in renewing or refurbishing our infrastructure and operating equipment.
  • By 2030, we aim to limit carbon emissions at DHL Group to less than 29 million metric tons - despite expected business growth.
  • Thus we are taking the Science-Based Targets (SBT) approach.
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Our goals for more climate protection

  • Expand carbon-free fleet to 38,000 e-vehicles and 14,000 e-trikes by 2025
  • Parallel expansion of charging station network
  • ~ 30% carbon reduction over the last mile for Packstation deliveries
  • Compared with road freight, each DHL train cuts carbon emissions by between 80% and 100%.
  • A single freight train can carry 100,000 parcels.
  • The DHL & DB Cargo rail transport network includes 60 trains transporting parcels every week.
  • These measures alone avoid approx. 7,000 metric tons of CO2 by 2025.
  • New company-owned sites equipped with photovoltaics, heat pumps and building automation as standard
  • Piloting battery storage at some sites
  • Our GoGreen service has provided sustainable shipping since 2007.
  • Since 2022, we enter the next phase of sustainable shipping with GoGreen Plus.

Climate protection projects at DPDHL

  • Purchase of carbon credits ensures offsetting for customers using our sustainable GoGreen products and services.
  • With our GoGreen solutions, we support quality climate protection projects to offset emissions worldwide - for the benefit of the climate and the people we serve.
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1DHL Paket GmbH and Deutsche Post AG accept no liability for the use of the data provided; responsibility lies solely with customer. For detailed liability regulations, please refer to the current service description for the "Sustainability Report on CO2e-Values", which is part of your business customer contract.