Posti is a company that is almost 400 years old, and sustainability has always been part of our DNA. For example, we have been working for the environment for a long time: we started electric cars in the 80s and started our first environmental program in the late 90s.
Today, sustainability is a key part of our strategy, our values, and the purpose: responsibly delivering what matters to you – on your terms. To continue to transport things sustainably also in the future, we need to operate without emissions and ensure that people are feeling well. That is why the two cornerstones of our sustainability program are the environment and the people.
We are committed to reducing our own emissions to zero and transporting fossil-free by 2030. The Science Based Targets initiative has approved Posti's goals. Our own emissions are, indeed, declining: last year they fell 10,5 percent year over year. In total there’s been 60,2 percent drop since 2011.
Our goal is zero-emission logistics, and we already transport, for example, more than 10 million packages a year completely fossil-free. Last year we drove over 18 million kilometers fossil-free by electricity and renewables. We reach about 50 percent of households with electricity in postal services. In heavy traffic, we have the largest fleet of trucks using biogas in Finland, 30 of them. We had about 200 electric vans at the end of 2022 and this year 2023 there will be one hundred more. All the electricity we use is renewable.
Our sustainability work is among the best globally: EcoVadis, the world's leading corporate sustainability assessment organization, ranked Posti again at the highest possible platinum level in 2022. In October 2021, we were awarded the winner in the carbon reduction category of the World Sustainability Awards 2021.
