Collaborating for action
Achieving Net-Zero and supporting climate ambitions more broadly will require profound changes across our value chain, as well as industry-wide change through close collaboration and partnerships. Some of the steps the company is taking include:
- Identifying our most significant suppliers based on their Scope 3 materiality and commencing decarbonisation roadmaps.
- Sharing knowledge, best practices and join forces where a standardised industry-wide approach is required.
- Gathering more granular information on suppliers’ emissions and risk areas, to increase the accuracy and transparency of our reporting.
- Equipping our workforce with knowledge about our Net-Zero journey and how they can contribute is critical to its success.
Our Steps to Zero journey
How Royal Mail are delivering for the future
We are the UK’s greenest delivery option for letters and parcels based on average gCO2e emissions per parcel delivered by UK parcel operators, as published by Citizens Advice 2024 Parcels League Table. In 2024-25 we continued to decarbonise our business which has again resulted in a drop in our total emissions and in our CO2e emissions per parcel to 165gCO2e, compared to 206gCO2e in the prior year. This is well below the reported emissions of our main peers.
We operate the UK’s largest electric van delivery fleet, with c.7,000 electric vans.
Yes. Royal Mail has committed to achieving Net-Zero by 2040 and has announced interim (2030) targets that have been externally validated by the Science-based Target Initiative (SBTi).
Please take a look at our ESG Report 2024-25pdf, 7.91 MB.