Next to energy, transport leaves the biggest carbon footprint on the Earth, whether it be personal or commercial. As well as individuals, organisations therefore have a big responsibility to make their business travel and freight forwarding as sustainable as possible. For business travel, check out Atmosfair, where you can offset the CO2 impact of your flight by making a contribution to environmental projects. For shipping, here are some of the freight forwarders that have a strong sustainability game.
Green Courier bills itself as ‘the UK’s leading environmental courier’, with the largest zero-emissions fleet in the logistics industry and a partnership with the World Land Trust to offset its emissions, while the company’s offices use renewable energy. As well as a speedy courier service (using bicycles, mopeds or vans depending on the size of consignment), the company offers full logistics from international shipping to road haulage and warehousing. Where third-party carbon-producing vehicles are required (such as with air freight), customers can opt to offset this by paying more so that Green Courier can increase its contribution to World Land Trust’s Carbon Balanced Programme.
Elsewhere, Greencarrier also offers international shipping with a conscience from its offices in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and China. The company contributes a percentage of its profits to a fund that supports environmentally focused CSR projects, including: Solvatten – a social enterprise making portable solar-powered jerry cans for heating and treating water in off-grid communities; the installation of floating bins near the company’s ports in Sweden to collect ocean plastic; and contribution to the Universeum in Gothenburg’s Future Transport project encouraging students to find sustainable ways to transport goods.
DHL GoGreen Solutions, meanwhile, offers Green Options for ‘minimising and/or avoiding logistics-related emissions, waste and other environmental impacts along your entire supply chain’. These span air, rail, road and sea-freight services, and the company also has a certified product for customers to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
Likewise, fellow household name UPS is committed to the cause by increasingly using fleets that run on either low-emission or alternative fuel, as well as offering a carbon offsetting scheme.
Next to energy, transport leaves the biggest carbon footprint on the Earth, whether it be personal or commercial. As well as individuals, organisations therefore have a big responsibility to make their business travel and freight forwarding as sustainable as possible. For business travel, check out Atmosfair, where you can offset the CO2 impact of your flight by making a contribution to environmental projects. For shipping, here are some of the freight forwarders that have a strong sustainability game.
Green Courier bills itself as ‘the UK’s leading environmental courier’, with the largest zero-emissions fleet in the logistics industry and a partnership with the World Land Trust to offset its emissions, while the company’s offices use renewable energy. As well as a speedy courier service (using bicycles, mopeds or vans depending on the size of consignment), the company offers full logistics from international shipping to road haulage and warehousing. Where third-party carbon-producing vehicles are required (such as with air freight), customers can opt to offset this by paying more so that Green Courier can increase its contribution to World Land Trust’s Carbon Balanced Programme.
Elsewhere, Greencarrier also offers international shipping with a conscience from its offices in the Nordic and Baltic countries, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and China. The company contributes a percentage of its profits to a fund that supports environmentally focused CSR projects, including: Solvatten – a social enterprise making portable solar-powered jerry cans for heating and treating water in off-grid communities; the installation of floating bins near the company’s ports in Sweden to collect ocean plastic; and contribution to the Universeum in Gothenburg’s Future Transport project encouraging students to find sustainable ways to transport goods.
DHL GoGreen Solutions, meanwhile, offers Green Options for ‘minimising and/or avoiding logistics-related emissions, waste and other environmental impacts along your entire supply chain’. These span air, rail, road and sea-freight services, and the company also has a certified product for customers to offset their greenhouse gas emissions.
Likewise, fellow household name UPS is committed to the cause by increasingly using fleets that run on either low-emission or alternative fuel, as well as offering a carbon offsetting scheme.