Our sustainability strategy
Our sustainability strategy connects the vision of being a sustainability leader with traditional enterprise value drivers of cost and efficiency, brand, and revenue improvement.
Our strategy contains 15 sustainability performance goals across 10 focus areas that will help us demonstrate progress toward achieving this vision.
| Focus Area | USPS Sustainability Goals | |
|---|---|---|
| Greenhouse gas | 1 | Reduce scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions 20% by FY 2020 (FY 2008 baseline). |
| 2 | Reduce select scope 3 GHG emissions 20% by FY 2020 (FY 2008 baseline). | |
| Facility energy | 3 | Reduce total facility energy use 30% by FY 2015 (FY 2003 baseline). |
| Owned-vehicle fuel | 4 | Reduce owned-vehicle petroleum fuel use 20% by FY 2015 (FY 2005 baseline). |
| 5 | Increase owned-vehicle alternative fuel use 10% annually by FY 2015 (FY 2005 baseline). | |
| Waste | 6 | Reduce waste to landfill 50% by FY 2015 (FY 2009 baseline). |
| Materials | 7 | Reduce spend on consumables 30% by FY 2020 (FY 2008 baseline). |
| 8 | Increase % of identified environmentally preferable products (EPP) available for purchase on-catalog by 50% by FY 2015 (FY 2010 baseline). | |
| Water | 9 | Reduce water use 10% by FY 2015 (FY 2007 baseline). |
| Employees | 10 | Deploy “Lean Green Teams”to 100% of USPS districts and network distribution centers by FY 2012 (FY 2009 baseline). |
| Suppliers | 11 | Reduce contract transportation petroleum fuel use 20% by FY 2020(FY 2008 baseline). |
| 12 | Require suppliers with current contract commitments of over $500,000 to provide sustainability data by FY 2015 (FY 2011 baseline). | |
| 13 | Include standard USPS sustainability clauses in new contract actions by FY 2015 (FY 2011 baseline). | |
| Customers | 14 | Offer customers a range of sustainable products and services by FY 2012, including at least two new customer offerings (FY 2009 baseline). |
| Peers | 15 | Outperform the international postal sector’s average annual carbon management performance score, as calculated by the International Post Corporation (IPC). |
All of these goals contribute to USPS scope 1, 2 and select scope 3 GHG emission reduction goals, and are described below.