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Linking profitability to sustainability
Corporate responsibility is a key element of our Group’s strategy. It is codied in our
Code of Conduct, which is guided by the principles of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, the United Nations Global Compact, the International Labour
Organisation convention and the guidelines for multinational companies.
We wish to run our business responsibly, develop sustainable solutions for our custom-
ers and also leverage our logistics expertise as well as our global presence to address
social transformation.
In a Group-wide network relating to issues of Responsible Business Practice, we
co-ordinate the on-going dialogue with our stakeholders, which we strengthened in
the reporting year. is dialogue ensures that our stakeholders’ requirements as regards
social and environmental issues are taken into account appropriately and that our busi-
ness is systematically aligned accordingly. e goal is to link protability to sustainability.
As part of our Corporate Citizenship eorts we also transfer our expertise in trans-
port and logistics to our social commitment. We are committed to educational and
professional development, provide logistical support in the wake of natural disasters
and support local environmental protection and aid projects. In the reporting year,
we evaluated all Corporate Citizenship-related investments in accordance with the
model for the rst time and are thus fullling the assessment base for corporate
community investment.
Our Group-wide environmental management is based upon the value proposition of
shared value. With measures to increase
eciency as well as environmentally friendly
GoGreen products we full our responsibility towards the environment and society, and
create added value for our customers whilst strengthening our market position.
Greenhouse gas emissions almost constant
We aim to reduce our dependency upon fossil fuels, improve our eciency and
lower costs. We have anchored these goals throughout the entire Group with our
GoGreen environmental protection programme. Our “green” products and services
also help customers achieve their own environmental targets whilst concurrently open-
ing up new business opportunities for the company. By the year , we intend to
improve the eciency of our own operations and those of our subcontractors by
compared with .
We quantify our greenhouse gas emissions based upon the Protocol Corporate
Standard and ; those for our European air freight activities are also
calculated in accordance with the requirements of the European Union Emissions
Trading System . Pursuant to , all gases that are harmful to the
environment must be disclosed in the form of
equivalents (
e). In , our
direct (Scope) and indirect (Scope ) greenhouse gas emissions amounted to . mil-
lion tonnes of e (previous year, adjusted: . million tonnes of e). is gure
reects the fuel consumption of our eet and energy consumption in our buildings. e
increase in emissions from the above-average performance in our Express division was
oset largely by lower emissions in the other divisions. Overall, emissions increased
slightly by . . As in the previous year, we avoided . million tonnes of e by
using electricity from renewable sources. At the same time, energy consumption in our
buildings and facilities fell by . .
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Total: . million tonnes
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20 % Road transport
13 % Real estate
67 % Air transport
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