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TNT Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
TNT takes its environmental and social obligations extremely serious and is firmly at the forefront in the fight against climate change and reducing Co2 emissions. The company has also established beneficial partnerships with a range of charitable and relief organisations both in the UK and abroad.
The Environment
Planet Me
In 2007, TNT launched a global strategy called Planet Me to improve transparency on the company's carbon footprint, to drastically reduce CO2 emissions from the company's operations and to stimulate its 159,000 employees to do the same in their private lives.
The Planet Me initiative is a certified system to measure, report and manage its CO2 emissions.
TNT also implemented CO2 reduction initiatives in its eight most important operational areas: aviation, buildings, business travel, company cars, partnering with customers, operational fleet, procurement, and investments. The programme also aimed to stimulate employees to use less energy at home and on the road.
Dow Jones Sustainability Index
In 2007, TNT topped the prestigious Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) for the first time ever.
The DJSI tracks the financial performance of the leading sustainability-driven companies worldwide, organisations that combine business success with an ethical, caring and responsible approach across a variety of areas including economic, environmental and social criteria.
When the DJSI rankings for 2007 were announced today in Zurich Switzerland, TNT had improved its score from 84 in 2006 to 91 in 2007 giving it the highest score of any company on the DJSI.
Contributing to the high ranking, TNT Express Services in the UK pioneered a unique global initiative by deploying the world's first 7.5 tonne high performance zero emission electric vehicle in London as a forerunner to a multi-million pound investment in a fleet of pollution free vehicles. In addition TNT UK recycled 5,425 tonnes of material (including 414 tonnes of paper and cardboard) in 2006 as well as deriving 15% of its total energy requirements from renewable sources.
The world's first 7.5-tonne zero emission vehicle.
TNT Express Services in the UK pioneered a unique global initiative in December 2006 by deploying the world's first 7.5 tonne high performance zero emission electric vehicle in London. The trial was as a forerunner to a multi-million pound investment in a fleet of pollution free vehicles planned for 2008.
Read about the zero emission launch here: http://www.tnt.com/country/en_gb/about/tnt-press-office/news/news_from_2006/the__big_orange_s.html
Charity support - Wooden Spoon
TNT Express Services is a major supporter of Wooden Spoon, a charity that funds projects for children and young people who are physically, mentally or socially disadvantaged within the UK. Wooden Spoon is the official charity of the British Rugby Union and its patron is the Princess Royal.
Since adopting Wooden Spoon as its chosen charity in 1997, TNT is acknowledged as the largest single benefactor having raised well in excess of £2 million on behalf of Wooden Spoon, in cash alone, over the past nine years. In 2007 TNT gave a record-breaking donation of £300,620 - the largest single donation the company has ever generated and the biggest ever received by the children's charity in its 24-year history.
Supporting the Spoon encourages teamwork as employees unite behind a common goal and generates healthy competition between depots, offices and regions. TNT has introduced its 'Seeing is Believing' (SIB) initiative that enables employees to visit Spoon projects and see how the money they generate is used to help children and young people.
By the end of 2007 approximately 1,400 TNT employees participated in a visit - just four years after the launch of the SIB programme.
United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP)
TNT UK supports the partnership that its parent company TNT N.V. has with the United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) entitled 'Moving the World'. TNT in the UK & Ireland participate in an annual global fundraising initiative called 'Walk the World' - a series of sponsored walks in 63 countries, through 24-time zones in one 24-hour period. The inaugural walk in 2004 saw up to 3,000 TNT employees, family and friends in the UK & Ireland, raise £70,000 towards a worldwide total of £500,000.
In 2005, TNT in the UK & Ireland hosted 12 regional Walk the World events on June 12th in support of a TNT N.V. effort to raise more than £1million for the WFP in just one day. 4,000 TNT walkers took part in the UK & Ireland and made a substantial contribution to the TNT N.V. global donation of £1.4 million.
In 2006 and 2007, TNT hosted a nationwide seven-day fundraising festival under the heading 'Fight Hunger Week' where employees at up to company 70 locations helped raise awareness and funding for the WFP - in excess of £65,000 was raised. Up to 4,000 employees wore pedometers to see if they could walk nearly 50 million steps during the week - equivalent to walking the circumference of the world. In reality the TNT employees took 75 million steps!
TNT also provides 'help in kind' support and deploys key personnel as volunteers to assist the WFP in its work. This was evidenced in the wake of the Indian Ocean tsunami in late 2004. TNT Express Services UK & Ireland employees were seconded to Indonesia to help with the WFP aid effort.
Other support - Duke of Edinburgh's Award
Our partnership with the Duke of Edinburgh's Award provides us with an invaluable opportunity to demonstrate the values of our own company and, at the same time, those of the Award. The Award provides an exciting challenge for young people helping develop excellent team working and other leadership skills. They benefit from being involved in a most worthwhile personal development programme.
In 1992 TNT took its place among an elite group of British blue-chip companies as Charter Founder Members, pledging a six figure sum in cash and kind to the Award every year.
"Our support for The Duke of Edinburgh's Award fits perfectly with our commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and to helping both our own staff and young people in the wider community to fulfill their potential," says Tom Bell, Managing Director of TNT Express Services UK and Ireland.
"As well as benefiting our staff, our Charter Founder Membership enables us to use Award events for entertaining and networking. And we highly value this aspect of our relationship," says Bob Black, Chief Operating Officer TNT Express Services UK.
Tom Bell adds: "We encourage our employees to gain new skills and achieve their maximum potential which pays serious business dividends so we were very impressed that The Duke of Edinburgh's Award mirrored that approach amongst young people in the community."
The company uses the Award to help its young employees become enterprising leaders and develop excellent team working skills.
"Much of our success has been achieved by promoting people from within the company under our 'home grown timber' policy and the Award enables us to lay firm foundations for longevity of employment whilst providing a first class method of developing managers," says Tom.
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