The DHL Fulfillment Network Goes Above and Beyond to Be a Sustainable Partner
We are innovators in sustainable growth, and our goal is simple – to radically reduce our carbon footprint while setting the highest social and governance standards.
Are you interested in scalable fulfillment? Then let’s get to business.
Sustainability guides our overall strategy, and it helps shape the solutions we bring to our customers.
Our programs started way back in 2003, so we’ve spent two decades thinking and acting as advocates for positive change.
24,200
vehicles with alternative driving systems
94%
electricity from renewable sources
60%
e-vehicles in pick-up and delivery by 2025
Creating value for tomorrow, today
Our ESG Sustainability Roadmap can help empower your own journey.
With our focus on creating value for tomorrow, today, you can rest assured you’re working with a responsible logistics partner that will help you to:
Achieve your environmental targets.
Work alongside our active workforce where colleagues feel successful in their lives and careers, with passion for delivery and pride in what they do.
Protect brand integrity for you and your customers, ensuring transparent and compliant business practices to create long term value.
Acting responsibly towards the environment
Every product has a waste, energy and CO2e footprint – and so does yours. The proportion that is contributed by logistics can be significant.
That's why we work together with you to design, implement and scale solutions to reduce our environmental impact.
Our goals on the path to achieve net zero GHG emissions by 2050
>30%
share of sustainable fuels in road transport
60%
e-vehicles for pick-up and delivery
Sustainable warehousing
design for all our own new buildings
We involve you too…
Sustainable business practices need to be spread.
So, if you’re a DHL customer, we can work with you to ensure that your transport and packaging meets all your requirements while using minimal resources.
What are we doing about sustainability?
We’re taking immediate steps to target carbon emissions, cut waste and recycle wherever we can.
Installing solar panels (1) and heat pumps (2) reduces our usage of mains electricity. We also recycle cardboard extensively (3) and cut down on plastics.
We’re installing smart lighting systems (4) in our warehouses, with sensors that ensure lights are only switched on when they’re actually needed.
Waste reduction is also a priority, so we recycle as much spent materials as possible (5) to eliminate going to landfill.
We help support a sustainable supply chain
By helping our suppliers lower their last-mile carbon emissions.
We target transport
By supporting innovation in low/no-carbon alternatives to fossil fuels.
We offer training and define standards
To help our partners adopt more responsible transport practices
A great company to work for all
We continuously strive to provide a safe, inclusive and purpose-driven workplace rooted in our guiding principles of Respect and Results.
We deliver on our goals in a focused and disciplined way without compromising our integrity and compliance.
Our aims and objectives
95,000+
employees trained in supply chain excellence
Top employer
award five years in a row
>11,000
supervisors trained through our Certified Supervisory Academy
23.4%
women in management roles at DHL Supply Chain
Diversity and inclusion are our strengths…
We have a truly diverse workforce, with 179 different nationalities represented in our German locations alone. What’s more, we strive to build a culture that welcomes people on their ability, with zero tolerance for discrimination by gender, ethnicity, disability or sexual orientation/identity.
We promote an inclusive work environment, guided by mutual respect, openness, honesty and a spirit of trust and cooperation.
We promote our female colleagues
We have initiatives aligned to our 2025 target of 30% of our senior leadership globally filled by women.
We win awards for inclusive working
And we’re proud to have won the 2021 Inclusion for Business Award.
We support diversity worldwide
By providing a diversity and inclusion hub full of information and best practices.
A highly trusted company
Trust, transparency and compliance are integral to your business.
A robust ESG governance underpins our licence to operate and sets our foundation of integrity and compliant business practices to protect our shareholder's investments and your brand reputation.
Respect for human rights worldwide
Our Human Rights Policy Statement and management system ensure responsible business practices in our daily work as well as operations for our customers.
We aim for responsible governance
Through our aspiration to build stable relationships using our Supplier Code of Conduct.
We respect local rights...
With our focus on supporting fair pay and collective bargaining.
Corporate citizenship
We strive for a consistent balance between ecology, economy and society, and our GoPrograms help us to do exactly that. Each region has its own programs. For example, in Germany we have worked hard to integrate refugees into the workplace, and have so far hired 17,000 refugees.
Go Help: Disaster management
We work in cooperation with the United Nations to optimize logistics at airports in the wake of national disasters, all free of charge. We also offer aid and support, collaborating with the Red Cross and the World Food programme.
Go Teach: Improving employability
Our employees support disadvantaged young people, giving them the skills they need to compete in the jobs market. In 2021, our program helped 15,700 young people in 62 countries.
Go Green: emission-reduced logistics
Around the world, we work alongside our partners on ambitious environmental programs. We certify employees as Go Green Specialists, and engage in projects to promote reforestation and protect biodiversity.
Go Trade: Facilitating global trade
We share our commercial expertise with smaller companies in emerging economies. Our Go Trade program has now trained more than 600 employees in logistics, e-commerce and regulation to promote growth in countries where it’s needed most.
