Our climate efforts are based on the company’s strategy and climate science. In 2022, Posti became the world’s first logistics company to have its net zero target approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). SBTi is akin to a Paris Agreement for businesses, and Posti is committed to achieving the targets 10 years earlier than required by the Paris Agreement.
Our target is to reduce our own emissions and our value chain emissions to net-zero by 2040. In addition, our targets for 2030 include exclusively using fossil-free energy to power all of our vehicles and our partners’ vehicles and using only fossil-free energy at the properties we use.
Merely setting targets is not enough. One important milestone on the road to fossilfree logistics is the clean vehicle roadmap we published in 2022. It serves as a financially feasible plan to deploy as many as thousands of new electric, biogas and hydrogen vehicles by 2030. In 2023, we began to prepare fleet roadmaps for our contract carriers in close cooperation with them.
By the end of 2023, we had already reduced our own emissions by almost a third from the 2020 baseline. More detailed information on our emissions and transport fleet can be found in our sustainability report.
Climate change mitigation supports the mitigation of biodiversity loss. In the transport sector, significant biodiversity impacts are generated through emissions. Posti's goal is to understand its impact on biodiversity and support the preservation of biodiversity.