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Sustainability in the postal sector

CLS briefing series from the digital commerce & logistics industry experts

Active in the postal industry for more than 35 years, and with Walter Trezek re-elected Chairman of the UPU's Consultative Committee (UPU CC), the body representing the wider postal stakeholders, CLS is ideally placed to provide concise and accurate summaries about current industry developments, plus our thoughts on future trends and the postal industry as a whole.

With the European Union's dual green and digital transformation, sustainability considerations are now also driving developments in the postal sector. By ensuring universal access globally to all the world's citizens, the postal sector is inevitably a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, developments in the sector include efforts to reduce its environmental impact.

You can access all our LinkedIn postings on sustainability in the postal sector via the links below:

2024

• OSCAR: making the UPU's sustainability tool available to Wider Postal Sector Players (March 2024)

2023

• GUEST POST: Jesper Okkels: Collecting and redistributing B2C circular packaging, Part 1 & 2 (November 2023)
  
• UPU agrees Green Package: 85% reduction in CO2 and GHG emissions by 2050 (October 2023)
  
• New EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation proposal – mandatory requirements on reusability and reduction targets (September 2023)
  
• The postal sector is preparing the next steps to measure and reduce its GHG/CO2 footprint (August 2023)
  
• Climate targets for the postal sector: UPU surveying the energy use, infrastructure, and climate targets of designated operators (April 2023)
• Sustainable postal services: OSCAR for the postal sector as a whole (February 2023)
  

2022

• Explained simply by CLS: The impact of key ecommerce logistics trends on air pollution and CO2 emissions in the EU, Part 1, (November 2022)
  
• Explained simply by CLS: The new model for measuring carbon and GHG emissions in parcel delivery: Part 1, Part 2,   (October 2022)
  
• Environmental sustainability of the postal sector based on ISO and CEN standards (September 2022)
• Allocation of CO2 and greenhouse gas emissions to single parcels (August 2022)
  
• Ever more – ever greener? How standardization makes parcel delivery greener (April 2022)
• Harmonizing measurement of global postal carbon and GHG emissions (March 2022)
  
• Data-driven & ecologically-sound commerce (March 2022)
  
• Data is the decisive factor in ecologically-sound logistics and delivery (February 2022)
  
• Big for 2022: Sustainability and ecologically-sound delivery takes off (February 2022)
  
• Sustainability: Dual Green and Digital Transition of the postal sector (January 2022)

2021

• Commitment to accelerate the green transition in the global postal sector (December 2021)
  
• The dual green and digital transition in the postal sector (November 2021)
  
• UPU: Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the postal sector (September 2021)
  

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