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Couriers and Express Delivery Services
Chief Sustainability Officer
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NYSE: FDX
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T: 901-818-7500
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Awards
- Ranked first in its industry on JUST Capital’s 2021 list of “America’s Most Just Companies” in the environment category
- Ranked first in the travel, transport and logistics sector of Newsweek’s “America’s Most Responsible Companies 2021
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Employees
Content source
FedEx Sustainability Report
Evaluation of FedEx
Sustainability Scorecard
FedEx Company Activity
FedEx Corporation was founded in 1971 and is based in Memphis, Tennessee. FedEx is a holding company that provides transportation, e-commerce and business services in the United States and internationally. It operates through the following segments FedEx Express, Ground, Freight, Services and Corporate, Other and Eliminations. The Express segment offers express transportation, small-package ground delivery, and freight transportation service. Through the FedEx Ground segment the company provides day-certain delivery services to businesses and residences.
The company’s FedEx Freight segment offers less-than-truckload freight transportation services using approximately 30,000 vehicles and 400 service centres, as of May 31, 2022. The FedEx Services segment provides sales, marketing, information technology, communications, customer service, technical support, billing and collection, and back-office support services. The company’s Corporate, Other and Eliminations segment offers integrated supply chain management solutions, specialty transportation, customs brokerage, and global ocean and air freight forwarding services.
FedEx Sustainability Activity - As per company declarations
Practical Sustainability philosophy to guide the sustainability strategy that includes the Reduce, Replace, Revolutionise approach to current environmental initiatives. Efforts are put into mitigating environmental impacts, increase efficiency, reduce costs and protect against future risks.
Sustainable Logistics is a pillar of the FedEx Cares program.
Certificate & Labels, Standards and Frameworks
- International Standardization (ISO) 20400
- ISO 14001
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) in the U.S.
- Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) in Europe
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
- Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
- Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
- CDP Questionnaire – Climate Change 2021
FedEx in the news: Press Reviews and Social Media
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Highlights from FedEx Sustainability Report
Achievements
- In 2021 FedEx launched the E-Commerce Learning Lab in collaboration with Accion Opportunity Fund to help women- and minority-owned businesses develop and grow their e-commerce operations. The program includes grants and intensive hands-on learning and coaching opportunities for 150 small-business owners as well as digital learning opportunities to support more than 2,000 small-business owners.
- In 2021, FedEx Express joined the Capital Equipment Coalition, showing commitment to increase circularity by reducing the use of raw materials and extending the lifespan of capital equipment
- In 2021, 67% of reported solid waste in FedEx global facilities was sent to recyclers
- In 2021 FedEx began reporting on the prior year gender, racial and ethnic composition of the U/S workforce
- $2 billion over the next several years to support bold action in three key areas: vehicle electrification, sustainable energy, and carbon sequestration
- In April 2021 issued the first sustainability bond by a North American transportation and logistics company to further commitment to carbon neutrality
- FedEx Ground and FedEx Freight, which avoided nearly 600,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2) in 2021 alone
- Decreased (CO2) emissions intensity—on a revenue basis— by 45% from 2019 through 2021
- In 2021 investments in FedEx Fuel Sense program, saved 146 million gallons of jet fuel from aircraft fleet modernization and alternative fuels
- FedEx Office finalised its LED lighting retrofit in all location
Weaknesses and Setbacks
- In 2011 goal to achieve 30% reduction in aircraft emissions by 2020 from a 2005 baseline fell short due to a global increase in shipping volume by the COVID-19 pandemic which delayed the retirement of certain aircraft
- In 2021 aircraft emissions increased 12% compared to 2020, however overall aircraft emissions intensity reduced by 27% since 2005 because of the Fuel Sense and aircraft modernization
Targets vs Progress Reported
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Transition the entire FedEx parcel pickup and delivery (PUD) fleet to zero emission vehicles by 2040: Stage 1: by 2025, 50% of fleet purchases will be electric - Stage 2: 100% of all purchases will be electric by 2030 | In 2021 an agreement for 500 electric vehicles from BrightDrop for the FedEx Express fleet - In January 2022, expanded the agreement to add 2,000 additional electric vans over the next several years - Plans to add 20,000 more electric vehicles to the fleet, subject to further negotiations and execution of an agreement - Introduced electric pallet, which in a pilot test allowed for handling 25 more packages per day - FedEx Office and FedEx Freight exploring pilot programs to electrify their vehicles fleet - FedEx Ground is developing a strategy to facilitate the electric vehicle transition for a specific portion of their customers - Enhance innovative specialty delivery technologies to reduce the number of vehicles or create low-emissions zones, (e.g. Roxo™, the FedEx SameDay Bot®) - In 2021, FedEx teamed up with Aurora and Paccar to test autonomous driving technology within FedEx linehaul trucking operations - 70 solutions to increase mobility have been deployed in Europe through the Zero Emission City Deliveries Solutions program - FedEx in China is working with Neolix on the evaluation of an autonomous electric delivery vehicle - In London and Toronto, electric bikes are replacing vans - Electrify forklifts and airport ground service equipment - Through 2021, FedEx Express improved vehicle fuel efficiency by 42% from a 2005 baseline through the Last Mile Optimization program (deliver certain FedEx Express packages through FedEx Ground) |
Sustainable energy | - Accelerating sustainable energy plan within its more than 5,000 facilities to achieve zero Scope 2 emissions by 2040 - Solar energy generated at 26 global locations across operating companies - Four (4) FedEx facilities use fuel cell technologies together with on-site solar or battery storage - 30% of the FedEx Freight locations LED lightning has been installed - All other FedEx Freight locations to be converted to LED lightning in the next 5 years - FedEx energy management systems and lightning saved approximately 208 million kilowatt hours of electricity in 2021 - 39 LEED-certified facilities and 13 BREEAM-certified facilities |
Carbon sequestration | - In 2021, FedEx pledged to invest $100 million to help establish the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture, interdisciplinary research to create natural solutions for sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere |
By 2030, 30% of jet fuel from alternative fuels | - FedEx jet fuel accounts for 61% of reported emission footprint - In 2021 50% of the diesel FedEx Ground sold to service providers consisted in various biodiesel blends, resulting in 16,000 metric tons of CO2 avoided - FedEx Fuel Sense program lead to 65 million gallons of jet fuel savings in 2021 |
Fleet modernization | - FedEx global fleet includes 4,100 alternative fuel vehicles, including hybrid, electric, liquefied or compressed natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles - Through aircraft fleet modernization efforts, savings of 146 million gallons of jet fuel and avoided almost 1.5 million metric tons of CO2 in 2021 |