UPS Achieves 2016 Carbon Goal, Adds More NGVs

Global logistics company UPS has released its twelfth annual Sustainability Report announcing that in addition to reducing overall carbon emissions in 2013, the company also met its 2016 goal of reducing its air and ground fleet’s carbon intensity by ten percent three years early. The company is a major user of natural gas vehicles (NGV).

UPS’s current 3,647 alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles worldwide continue to drive GHG reductions and serve as a "rolling laboratory" to test, optimize, and deploy new-generation vehicles. In 2013, UPS ramped up use of natural gas vehicles across the country, adding 249 heavy-duty tractors fueled by liquefied natural gas (LNG) by year’s end. The company is on target to deploy more than 1,000 LNG tractors by the end of 2014. Additionally, UPS’s current natural gas tractor fleet is running more than two million miles per week.

The 2013 report documents UPS’s ongoing efforts to increase sustainability through its "Committed to More" approach. Noting that sustainability is often discussed in terms of doing less, UPS is committed to efficiently providing more – for customers, the environment, and communities around the world. UPS has set a new goal to achieve a twenty percent reduction in carbon intensity from transportation by 2020.

For the second year in a row, successful execution of UPS’s global GHG reduction strategy allowed the company to deliver more goods, while generating fewer emissions. In 2013, absolute carbon emissions decreased 1.5 percent from 2012, even as global shipping volume increased 3.9 percent during the same time frame.