Royal Mail and GLS’ environmental strategies include pathways, targets and mitigating actions that will help us reduce our environmental footprint and play our part in the transition to a low-carbon future while offering a wide range of green solutions to our customers.
Details on Royal Mail's strategy can be found below and details on GLS's strategy, Climate Protect can be found here.
Steps to Zero
Steps to Zero is Royal Mail's environment strategy to achieve net zero by 2040. On the journey to achieving net zero, we will reduce our average emissions per parcel to 50gCO2e.
Royal Mail is already the UK’s greenest option for letters and parcels* but we know we need to go much further and faster in decarbonising our business and driving wider change.
With Steps to Zero, we accelerate our net zero ambition to 2040 and align it to the latest climate science, and a 1.5°C decarbonisation pathway to reduce our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Scopes 1, 2 and 3)
*Based on publicly available reported gCO2e per parcel from other UK parcel operators.