CEO Today Global Awards 2024 - 11 - - UNITED KINGDOM - emissions by 2030. To ensure the company leadership is always considering this we introduced our carbon budget in 2023 – that is, how much CO2 we can allow ourselves to emit. Our carbon budget is tracked monthly and reported at every board meeting. All 10 members of our Senior Leadership Team are targeted to find carbon savings every year. You are on track to have a 100% EV final mile collection and delivery fleet by 2030; this would be a remarkable achievement given the scale of DPD’s operation; assuming you reach your target, what will this mean to you personally as a leader who has, forgive the pun, ‘driven’ the green agenda at DPD? I’m incredibly proud of all that we’ve accomplished in electrifying our fleet and being able to see 100% of our final mile collection and delivery go electric would be a huge victory, not just for us, but for the environment. I want DPD to be a leader in sustainability and for us to forge the way in building a more green future. This isn’t just my achievement, though – I want to give credit to all of our teams for being able to make this happen. With several ongoing innovations focused on sustainability, I understand you have also developed an incubator programme to help foster and create new green technologies and initiatives. Could you share how this initiative functions and highlight any innovative projects that have emerged from the programme? Absolutely. It’s called the ‘EcoLaunchpad’ programme, where we reach out to experts in sustainability, technology, and innovation to develop and test new ideas that can help us further reduce our carbon footprint. Our goal was to invite tech startups to present their innovations and show how they could help DPD become more sustainable. We specifically searched for companies specialising in the decarbonisation of buildings, transport, and delivery. We also had a wildcard category where we invited companies to surprise us with technology and robotics that could challenge our thinking in this space and facilitate a digital transformation. We’ve had an overwhelming response since June – 580 applications, narrowed down to a shortlist of 20 companies. We chose five winners who will take part in a ten-week “95% of all of our HGVs are now powered by hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO), a diesel replacement which reduces CO2e by up to 90%”
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