Sustainability – with the largest electric delivery fleet in the country.

Sustainability

We are one of the most sustainable mail and parcel service providers in Germany. Early on, we began investing in sustainable infrastructure and electric mobility to significantly reduce CO2 emissions. The greenhouse gases that we cannot yet reduce today are offset by financially supporting international climate protection projects.

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  • Private Customers

    Reduce the transport emissions of your letters and parcels with our sustainable services.

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  • Business Customers

    Sustainable shipping of business mail and goods.

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  • Public

    DHL Group has company-wide environmental protection programs and ambitious goals for emission reduction.

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  • Insetting – Reducing Emissions

  • The best thing for our climate is to generate as few shipping emissions as possible. That’s why we are investing internally in structural changes to reduce emissions. With insetting, we ensure that fewer emissions are generated in our logistics network. This includes investments in sustainable building infrastructure (e.g., using green electricity or solar energy), the use of biogas, and the deployment of electric vehicles.

  • Offsetting – Compensating Emissions

  • Our goal is to significantly reduce CO2 emissions. Where we have not yet succeeded, we invest in global climate projects to offset the CO2 emissions generated during transport. This compensation of CO2, known as offsetting, ensures that forward-looking climate protection projects are supported. The following projects all carry the Gold Standard certification for emission credits and are exemplary of many others:

With the new stoves, families in Lesotho can save 80% on firewood. This not only reduces greenhouse gases but also protects forests and prevents erosion. People are no longer exposed to harmful smoke and spend less time collecting firewood.

Six wind farms at various locations in New Caledonia generate electricity that is fed into the grid. This replaces grid electricity, which is generated 80% from fossil power plants. The project is implemented on-site by South Pole Carbon Asset Management Ltd.

This project enables the use of solar energy instead of fossil fuels for cooking and water heating. 50,000 solar cookers have been distributed and installed in rural households in the southwestern province of Henan by GLGF PV (SHANGHAI) Co., Ltd. Through the efficient use of solar energy, CO2 emissions are reduced.

Our Sustainable Products

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GoGreen

Sustainable shipping (offsetting) with GoGreen. By investing in global, certified climate protection projects, we compensate for the greenhouse gas emissions generated during the transport of your shipments.

Private Customers

GoGreen for Letters

GoGreen for Parcels

Business Customer

GoGreen for Letters

GoGreen for Parcel

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GoGreen Plus

Emission-reduced shipping (insetting) with GoGreen Plus. Through additional investments in our logistics network in Germany, we reduce greenhouse gas emissions during the transport of your shipments.

Private Customers

GoGreen Plus for Letters

GoGreen Plus for Parcels

Business Customers

GoGreen Plus for Letters

GoGreen Plus for Parcels

Good to Know

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is just one of many climate-damaging emissions. In addition to carbon dioxide, there are other greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, including methane (CH4), fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases), and nitrous oxide (N2O). To compare the effects of different climate gases, the "Global Warming Potential" is determined and converted into so-called CO2 equivalents, or CO2e. For national goods shipping, we support our business customers in creating the CO2e balance with various options for a CO2e sustainability report.