Reducing our impact on the environment

As a transport company, we operate a large number of vehicles, aircraft and buildings so that we inevitably produce emissions. We have made it our aim to invest in mitigating our impact on the environment. Environmental impact is also a prime concern of our stakeholders. One of our initiatives in this respect is a project known as Driving Clean, which is over time enabling a sustainable reduction in our vehicular emissions, specifically particulate matter (PM10), nitrogen oxides (NOx) and CO₂. Driving Clean includes four main projects: cleaning up our existing fleet, purchases related to our new fleet, investigating possibilities for our future fleet and efforts with our partner the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).

To manage our environmental impact we are committed to implement the ISO 14001 standard in all our operations worldwide by the end of 2007. We report on our environmental performance in our Social Responsibility report online.

Social responsibility is an integral part of the way we do business at TNT. This is why we publish our social responsibility report at the same time as our annual report, so our shareholders can discuss our social responsibility performance at the annual general meeting of shareholders.

We have committed ourselves to the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact and are subscribers to the three programmes of work of the Logistics and Transport Corporate Citizen Initiative of the World Economic Forum.

On 30 August 2007, CEO Peter Bakker launched TNT’s strategy to improve transparency on the company’s carbon footprint, to drastically reduce CO₂ emissions from the company’s operations and to stimulate its 159,000 employees to do the same in their private lives. TNT’s program is called “Planet Me”. Read also: Press release.