Europa Worldwide, Pledge partner to reduce carbon emissions
Pledge’s platform will allow customers to track, measure, report & reduce carbon footprint
Tom Jenkins, Central Services Director, Europa Worldwide Group
Europa Worldwide Group, U.K.’s largest privately-owned logistics provider, announced a partnership with Pledge, the leading greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions management platform for logistics.
"This marks the next step in Europa’s efforts to reduce GHG emissions in its supply chain. Sustainability in supply chains and logistics is constantly under scrutiny with 11 percent of emissions globally attributed to freight transport, warehousing, and ports," says a release from Europa.
The partnership with Pledge emphasises Europa’s next step to future-proof its operations for customers, the release added. "Pledge’s platform will allow customers to track, measure, report, and reduce carbon footprint, offsetting residual emissions using verified carbon removal and offsetting projects. The platform is accredited by the Smart Freight Centre for its adherence to the Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC) framework, which forms the basis for recent ISO 14083 standards for quantifying and reporting GHG emissions."
Tom Jenkins, Central Services Director, Europa Worldwide Group says: “With increasing regulations and an ethical obligation to understand more about their environmental impact, we wanted to provide our customers with a better way to measure and report their carbon emissions.
“Pledge’s platform is an ideal solution for us because it allows us to meet the demands of our customers and enable them to take action. Their carbon removals and offsetting marketplace is exclusively for verified and vetted projects, meaning that residual GHG emissions, which are offset or removed by Europa’s customers, are fully transparent, trusted, and will help them achieve disclosure requirements. We are keen to see where the partnership with Pledge takes us and are excited to see the difference it makes for our customers.”
David de Picciotto, CEO and Co-Founder, Pledge
David de Picciotto, CEO and Co-Founder, Pledge adds: “Europa Worldwide Group is one of the largest independent logistics operators in the U.K., and we’re thrilled it has chosen Pledge to support its customers on their sustainability journeys.
“The partnership proves that enterprise logistics companies are taking note of customer requirements to report emissions and decarbonise operations. Europa has taken the first step in becoming a leader in this space and we’re excited to watch the partnership grow, with the meaningful reductions in supply chain emissions that it will bring."
Europa Worldwide Group reported a turnover of £302 million for the last 12 months, as of August 2022, the release added.
