Recently has LabMakelaar a sustainability study conducted among its customers. This resulted in various ideas on what we can do to reduce our footprint. One answer stood out several times; transport. And in the area of transport, great strides can still be made.
Our customers also indicate that they will certainly accept a slightly longer delivery time if we can reduce our footprint. This is important because greenhouse gases are responsible for climate change.
In 2020, the Dutch transport sector emitted 22 billion kilograms of CO2 equivalent greenhouse gases*. That is 11 percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions by the Dutch economy. Within the transport sector, road transport causes 28 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. To give you an idea; a tree that grows for a year stores 20kg of CO2 in its branches and trunk. The 6.16 billion kg emissions from road transport are equivalent to 30 million trees. This is equivalent to 1.3 million hectares of forest.
Since 2010, greenhouse gas emissions from the entire transport sector have fallen by 17 percent, while total emissions from the Dutch economy fell by 19 percent in this period. Emissions from land transport were approximately the same in 2020 as in 2010. So there is still room for improvement here.
We have heard the feedback from our customers and will act accordingly. From September 1st, we will no longer have daily pick-ups of our shipments. From then on, we will use 2 fixed shipping days per week, namely Tuesday and Friday. In this way, pick-ups are combined and this saves 3 days of transport emissions. In this way, we contribute a small part to reducing emissions within the transport sector. This also falls within our objectives of corporate social responsibility, as a leader in CSR Netherlands.
We kindly ask you to take into account a longer delivery time of up to 2 working days from September 1st.
*Source: CBS.
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