UPS Pledges 20% Emissions Reductions from Air Operations by 2020

In its 2008 Corporate Sustainability Report released earlier this week, UPS announced plans to cut emissions from its aircraft operations 20% by 2020. UPS Airlines is the ninth largest airline in the world, and account for 53% of its total emissions.

In 2008, UPS became the first shipping company to join the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leadership Program. Partner companies in the program commit to reducing their environmental footprint by first conducting a comprehensive carbon inventory, setting aggressive emissions reduction goals and then annually reporting their progress back to the EPA.

UPS is also a charter member of the EPA’s SmartWay program, winning the SmartWay Environmental Excellence Award in 2008 for energy conservation and reducing emissions.

So UPS takes their environmental and social corporate responsibility seriously (as we’ve noted on several occasions at TriplePundit here, here, and here for a start), but how do they plan to reduce the emissions from their air operations by 20% in barely more than a decade? That was my first question upon hearing the news, because if the ninth largest airline can do it, why can’t others follow suit?

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