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Call to action

With increasing levels of environmental awareness across our Group, we can take the next step: We ask our employees to integrate CO2 efficiency and other environmental issues into their regular business decisions and daily activities.

Involving employees

An important tool to encourage action for environmental protection is First Choice, the largest and most ambitious initiative to increase customer loyalty in the history of Deutsche Post DHL.

In 2009, DHL Global Forwarding Freight started the roll-out of the GoGreen Dialog Map, a First Choice tool, in the USA, Europe and Asia. The GoGreen Dialog Map involves our employees, who know best how to reduce their environmental impact at work. In workshops, employees from the local facilities brainstorm and evaluate easy-to-implement ways to save energy, water and paper, and to reduce waste. They identify concrete actions and nominate a green champion for each action to be responsible for the implementation. In 2009, about 60 GoGreen Dialog Map workshops were conducted to define green action plans. Some of the implemented measures include:

  • installing motion detectors in washrooms
  • using public transportation
  • using energy-saving light bulbs
  • offering training for web conferences
  • introducing an incentive program to promote environmentally conscious behavior
  • reusing and recycling foil and packaging material
  • setting up battery collection points.

Each station is different. Therefore, we count on our employees to define their own action plans. In the end, they know best what to do to “go green”.

In the UK, DHL Supply Chain rolled out the “Industrial Environmental Improvement Program” in 2009. Focusing on the five areas of transportation, warehouse, office, green travel and engagement, the goal of this program is to reduce our environmental impact across all operating areas and so achieve our CO2 reduction targets. As a result of this program, all 80 contracts within industrial customers now have active and tailor-made Carbon Emission Reduction Action Plans, with awards to recognize performance, and are engaging all employees and drivers with efficiency improvement initiatives. In 2009, carbon emissions decreased by 14 % against our 2008 baseline. To recognize employees and their sites for their efforts, an award was introduced.

Commit to Green

Group-wide engagement with our GoGreen program was demonstrated by employees from all divisions on World Environment Day 2009. More than 4,000 employees submitted green commitments such as cycling to work or switching off appliances when not in use. Our Group planted a tree for every green commitment, rounding the number of trees up to 5,000. The trees were planted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (planting with Prima Klima e.V.) and Costa Rica (with Bauminvest, as part of Plant for the Planet). The winner of the green commitment initiative received a bicycle.

UNite to combat climate change

Our employees also used the occasion to launch a range of green initiatives at a local level. For example, 400 DHL locations ran a “Lights off” campaign, sending a signal for climate protection. The high level of commitment from our employees around the world is also clear from further initiatives. Climate protection campaigns have been organized at the local level in many places.

"We encourage all our employees to take part in environmental campaigns and I am delighted that the first prize has been awarded to Taiwan. This will most definitely provide even more motivation for our staff to carry on supporting GoGreen, and to get involved in the “My Green Commitment” campaign in years to come."

Kenny Mok, Country General Manager, DHL Global Forwarding Freight Taiwan

Giving green guidelines

To supplement employee engagement initiatives, we provide tools and policies that support ecologically sensitive behavior. We also implemented a company car policy in Germany. This involves a CO2 limit for each car category, removing the worst polluting cars from those available for selection, increasing the period of usage and maximum mileage, and encouraging and incentivizing individuals to make choices that minimize their environmental impact.

Winning idea: The automated USB powerplug of Doron Aviman, Key Account Desk, and Brian Boenk, Commercial Controller, DHL Express Denmark

Winning idea: The automated USB powerplug of Doron Aviman, Key Account Desk, and Brian Boenk, Commercial Controller, DHL Express Denmark

Awarding green solutions

DHL Express designed the ThinkGreen–GoGreen initiative to increase employee engagement, asking for employees’ ideas for environmentally sustainable solutions. In 2009, this initiative was piloted in DHL Express Denmark, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Uruguay and Chile, and over a three-month period, around 140 ideas were submitted. The ideas submitted contributed benefits estimated at €350,000.

In 2009, Deutsche Post DHL introduced the Corporate Responsibility Award to recognize and support employee-led charitable projects in local communities. Of the 30 awarded projects, three had a strong focus on environmental protection.

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