Postal industry is first to commit to CO2 reductions

Postal industry is first to commit to CO2 reductions

The international postal sector is the first services industry worldwide to commit to reducing its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to the International Post Corporation (IPC).
The US Postal Service and 21 other postal operators in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region – all members of IPC – have pledged to measure CO2 emissions and collectively reduce them by 20% by 2020, under IPC's Environmental Measurement and Monitoring system (EMMS).
“The US Postal Service continues to build on our long history of green innovation, and we’re proud to work with our global postal partners to reduce the size of our industry’s carbon footprint,” said Sam Pulcrano, vice president of sustainability. “Collectively, the 21 EMMS participating posts manage more than 100,000 facilities, 600,000 vehicles and deliver more than 80% of the world’s mail. Our joint effort to reduce CO2 emissions will have a major positive effect on the environment.”
The Postal Sector Sustainability Report 2010 recently published by the IPC announced that the global postal industry has already cut CO2 emissions by greater than a half million metric tons – more than one-third the goal – since 2008.
The IPC developed EMMS to provide a common carbon measurement and reporting framework. The EMMS tool measures carbon management proficiency (CMP) across 10 areas, including management and strategy, employee engagement and measurement and verification.
In 2009, the global postal sector had an average CMP score of 61%. One of USPS’s goals for this initiative was to improve its score and exceed the industry average, according to Pulcrano. The postal service met this objective by increasing its score from 53 to 73, a 38% improvement, and 18% higher than the industry average.

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