The time to be reactive has passed. There can be no delay in addressing the warming climate, deforestation, and pollution around us. At APL Logistics, we are doing our part to be proper stewards while staying at the vanguard of the movement to decarbonize global supply chains.
A huge part of our sustainability reporting and accountability journey has been to calculate our annual Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions footprints. We successfully measured and released these baselines for FY2022 and immediately submitted ambitious emissions reduction goals to the Science-Based Targets initiative. This is just the first part of how APL Logistics is getting aggressive with our internal and external decarbonization plans.
Over the past three years, APL Logistics has committed to developing comprehensive sustainability goals, strategies, and roadmap. We started with a GRI-compliant Materiality Assessment that outlined what issues matter to our company the most. This process helped to identify and prioritize our next ESG steps, culminating in APL Logistics’ first company-specific sustainability report in 2022. These reports are published annually, and you can access the most recent 2023 report and our GRI Index below.
In January 2022, we started to track key environmental indicators across the hundreds of global warehouses and offices where we have operational control. Embarking on this journey helped us set comprehensive Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions baselines that are derived from our site-level fuel and energy usage. Working with an external consulting team, APL Logistics then determined our relevant Scope 3 categories and began collecting the necessary data for these emissions calculations. Our Scope 1, 2, and 3 baselines* for FY2022 are:
Scope 1 & 2: 24,647.93 MT CO2e
Scope 3: 202,027.45 MTCO2e
* We are continually striving to improve the accuracy of our emissions reporting. Several amendments were made to our 2022 Scope 1 figures due to a data unit error, improved data quality, and improvements in calculation methodology.
From our 2022 baselines, we have derived 2030 absolute reduction goals with the help of NSF Consulting Services and an Environmental Defense Fund fellow. In 2023, APL Logistics submitted emissions reduction goals to the Science-Based Targets initiative. In April 2024, the goals were officially accepted by SBTi, and APL Logistics was added to SBTi’s roster of committed companies. (Learn more about the Science-Based Targets initiative.)
These targets and their associated reduction strategies are detailed further in our 2022 Sustainability Report, but a majority of our short-term efforts will focus on energy efficiency projects and fleet electrification. We will be tracking and sharing our year-over-year progress, and each goal will be revisited if achieved before 2030.
Our day-to-day mission is clear: we enable the most efficient movement of our customers’ goods around the world. Recently, the word “efficient” has taken on a whole new meaning for us though. The expansion of our emissions measurement, visibility, and reduction capabilities has allowed APL Logistics to maximize our customer’s operational, economic, and environmental supply chain efficiencies.
APL Logistics seeks to be a premier, profitable provider of global supply-chain services to help enable sustainable trade and commerce in key markets and regions. We will accomplish this by investing in our people, our facilities and in technology. We will continue to build and nurture a culture promoting challenge, inquiry and a continual focus on the customer.
All of APL Logistics’ emissions reports and measurements are supported by EcoTransIT, a 3rd party, Smart Freight Center-verified carbon data aggregator. Our emissions data is in accordance with the GLEC Framework, GHG Protocol (Corporate Standard), and EN 16258. EcoTransIT’s methodology is determined using an energy-based bottom-up approach and methodology.
Connect with our Sustainability teams today to learn more about how APL Logistics is driving our environmental sustainability agenda and green customer solutions
Global Sustainability Lead
Global Data & Analaytics Manager