Many of our services – from transport by road and rail, the operation of terminals and logistics centers to the handling of complex intralogistics processes – require energy and thus produce emissions. Despite all our efforts, this will only change to a limited extent in the short term. We are therefore all the more aware that we have a responsibility to leverage our scope for action to the best of our ability with the help of smart measures and to pursue ambitious medium- to long-term goals. In this way we will significantly reduce BLG LOGISTICS’ greenhouse gas emissions as part of our MISSION CLIMATE initiative. And where we cannot avoid emissions entirely, we offset them by investing in carefully selected and certified climate protection projects. Our goal is to become climate-neutral by 2030 and in doing so make a sustainable contribution to the Paris Climate Agreement and play our part in limiting global warming.

In the following sections, we describe our goals, measures and the status quo in our prioritized fields of climate protection and energy management, and additionally in the area of resource conservation and waste management.

This is because we believe that the latter is also a key element of sustainable corporate management. We aim to meet this objective through avoidance and reduction of waste as well as through targeted recycling strategies. With a view to energy efficiency, we have already made significant progress in recent years, such as conversion of extensive areas to LED lighting at a number of sites. When designing new sites, we give consideration to these aspects from the get-go – as the new C3 Bremen testifies, which went into operation in the reporting year and sets new benchmarks for sustainable logistics facilities.

And because environmental sustainability not only concerns our own actions, we are continuing to make sure our standards are applied along the supply chain in dialog with our partners.