CLAIMING to be the first freight company in Sydney, and possibly Australia, to make the move, Power Docs & Freight achieved a NOC02 accreditation.
According to the company, this was accomplished by consolidating runs, addressing driver behaviour and making a commitment to using green technologies and fuels as they become available in the future.
An NOC02 accreditation indicates that a company has measured, reduced and offset their total greenhouse gas impact and certifies that a company is completely carbon neutral.
Power Docs & Freight is offsetting its non-reducible emissions by purchasing carbon credits through their certifier, the Carbon Reduction Institute.
The company director Mark Power said that with enough investment into green energy and renewable fuels it may be possible to oversee a zero emissions fleet by 2020.
The Total Environment Centre (TEC) says the move is significant, given the carbon intensity of light commercial vehicles (LCVs) carrying relatively small loads. LCVs do not have the advantage of economies of scale of bigger trucks.
A 2008 report by the TEC reveals that carbon emissions from the freight transport sector are on track to grow by almost 100% over 1990 levels by 2020, with the transport sector representing one of Australia's fastest growing source of emissions.
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