Bol.com will be the first company in the Netherlands and Belgium to receive the Climate Neutral Certification label. The marketplace has been given the title for meeting criteria set out by the Climate Neutral Group (CNG), an agency helping to highlight the most sustainable companies.
The CNG and bol.com have mapped the entire CO2 emissions of its processes and set reduction targets according to the rules and guidelines of the Paris Agreement. This means that bol.com will be calculating and recording all emissions from the moment that items arrive in a fulfilment centre until they are delivered to the front door of a customer.
Bol.com tries to reduce CO2 emissions as much as possible and what remains bol.com compensates according to the criteria of CNG. For the 49,000 sales partners who sell through the platform, the operational emissions are calculated, which bol.com also offsets.
To reduce our own CO2 emissions, we have already taken steps to make our buildings, packaging, deliveries and returns more sustainable. In the coming years, our focus will be on further reduction, in line with the conditions of CNG. We also support our sales partners in reducing their emissions, for example by sharing knowledge and offering logistics services that make their processes more sustainable. In addition, we now also offset their operational emissions. Because together with all our sales partners, we can really make an impact.
– Jori Ebskamp, lead CSR & sustainability, bol.com
Bol.com will be assessed each year to ensure they are maintaining the criteria set out by the CNG and can continue to carry the Climate Neutral Certification label.
