The #climatechange agenda is reshaping the #market and #policy #landscape for #postal stakeholders. This includes #customer #demands for climate-sensitive postal #services, #climate #disruption #risks to core postal operations, increasing #regulatory complexity and #compliance costs, and #financial disincentives for high #emission #assets and related #projects.

Meanwhile, there are growing #green #markets and financial #opportunities for funding #lowemission postal assets and other climate actions.

Following resolution C 17/2021 (Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the postal sector) approved unanimously by #UPU members at the 27th Universal Postal Congress in Abidjan, the UPU is now conducting a #survey of its member countries. The #results will be used to propose #recommendations to the Extraordinary Congress being held in October on the feasibility of adopting #global #voluntary #targets for the postal sector to reduce #greenhousegas (#GHG) emissions.

𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝟭 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝟮 𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀

The #purpose of the survey is to generate a #global #baseline estimate of Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions from designated operators (#DOs) and to understand the main #sources of these #emissions:

· 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝟭—emissions from sources that a #company owns or controls directly, e.g., emissions caused by #operating the company’s fleet of #vehicles.
· 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝟮—emissions a company causes indirectly because of the type of #energy it purchases, e.g., the emissions caused in producing the #diesel/gas/electricity used to #power a company’s vehicle fleet.

The survey covers the #energyconsumption of postal buildings and vehicles, emission-reduction #measures and any #climatetargets that have already been established. The results will be used to #analyze feasible voluntary targets and shape the UPU’s #capacity building activities around #climateaction. It will also improve the ability of DOs to manage their particular climate change-related #risks and #opportunities.

The UPU sees this survey as the first step in launching extensive and #strategic #engagement in climate action for the #sector.

𝗨𝗣𝗨 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹

European #standardisation for the postal sector has been commissioned to develop sector-specific European side #regulation, engaging interested #stakeholder to develop #standards via the national standardisation authorities, over the next 48 months which will be aligned with the UPU’s #global harmonised approach. CLS will report.