we show climate leadership
We are working to reduce our climate footprint – across our own operations, our suppliers, and ultimately our customers’ value chains. Our targets are concrete and measurable, and we are already well on track to achieving them.
Electric trucks are driving PostNord towards a more sustainable future
PostNord is investing in the electrification of heavy transport as an important step towards a fossil-free future. Electric trucks significantly reduce CO₂ emissions and also improve driver working conditions through lower noise levels, greater comfort, and a better driving experience.
We are also investing in charging infrastructure, including dedicated charging stations that will in the future be available for use by other companies.
Read the press release: PostNord sætter strøm til tung transport
Parcels with climate contribution
When you choose PostNord, your business also supports Danish organisations working to protect nature, biodiversity, and the climate.
All domestic parcels – B2C, B2B, C2X, and returns – include a climate contribution that goes directly to the Danish Nature Fund (Klimaskovfonden). The fund’s projects reduce CO₂ in Denmark while also creating more nature, biodiversity, and recreational areas.
This contribution is not included in PostNord’s own carbon footprint reporting, but it supports Denmark’s national goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050.
From diesel to electric in Denmark’s largest cities
PostNord is working towards becoming 100% fossil-free and achieving 80% emissions-free last mile delivery by 2030.
We are replacing diesel vehicles with electric vehicles, primarily in Denmark’s largest cities. In large parts of Copenhagen, Aarhus, Aalborg, and Horsens, delivery is already emissions-free, and with an expected 50% increase in the number of electric vehicles in 2026, we are further expanding this transition.
This shift significantly reduces CO₂ emissions while also improving driver working conditions through lower noise levels and a more comfortable driving experience.
PostNord and NorthSide engage festival guests in the forests of the future
PostNord and NorthSide are both partnering with the Danish Nature Fund (Klimaskovfonden) on a reforestation project at Vilhelmsborg south of Aarhus.
At NorthSide 2025, festival guests also had the opportunity to support the planting of this forest, which helps strengthen biodiversity and contributes to Denmark’s climate targets. By donating a minimum of DKK 25, participants were entered into a prize draw for tickets and merchandise, collected from a dedicated PostNord parcel locker at the festival site.
Fossil-free biodiesel reduces CO₂ emissions by up to 85 percent
The fossil-free HVO biodiesel has played a central role in our green transition, and in 2020, PostNord converted a large part of its trucks to this new type of diesel made from animal by-products such as slaughter waste. HVO biodiesel reduces the CO₂ emissions of vehicles by up to 85%.
The transition to HVO biodiesel is one of the green solutions that provides visible results immediately. The immediate positive impact on the climate is something we need while technological options become more numerous and accessible. We still have trucks running on HVO biodiesel, but today we also have trucks using biogas as well as seven new electric trucks.
PostNord is a European Climate Leader
Given our precise and ambitious climate goals, PostNord is blazing a trail and showing authentic climate leadership. Our initiatives have, for example, qualified us for a prestigious place in the second edition of the list produced by the Financial Times and Statista of Europe’s 400 climate leaders who are paving the way to a green transition and reduced carbon emissions.
We accord sustainability a high place on the agenda and our latest climate goals are:
- 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions by the end of 2025 compared to 2020
- 80 percent emission-free “last mile” in 2030
- Fossil-free in 2030
Our new climate goals have been approved by the Science-Based Targets Initiative as documentation that the work to achieve these goals makes an actual contribution to the crucial green transition.
Environmental reports
We at PostNord are committed to making every link of the supply chain even greener. On this trajectory, shared responsibility, transparency and knowledge sharing are all essential, which is why we are keen to provide our commercial customers with peerless insight into how their shipments travel from point A to point B.
As one of PostNord’s commercial customers, you can access environmental reports directly in our customer portal to find out, for example, how much CO2 your shipments generate, how large a proportion of the energy consumed is sustainable, and much more besides. The calculations are based on a bottom-up process and apply to the products MyPack Home/Collect, Parcel and Return Drop off.
PostNord helps reduce the environmental footprint of dental clinics
PostNord and Plandent have joined forces with a group of students to develop an alternative delivery system which will, in future, reduce carbon emissions by approximately 25 percent while simultaneously improving both air quality and the aquatic environment.
Dental clinics in Denmark receive thousands of goods every day, packed in cardboard boxes. Unfortunately, this packaging has a major impact on the environment. In future, deliveries to Danish dental clinics will be made in reusable bags instead. These bags will then be returned by PostNord to Plandent, where they can be reused between 50 and 80 times before finally being sent for recycling.
This system makes it possible to cut the volume of waste generated and to reduce the dental clinics’ environmental impact.
Click here to find out more: New Danish partnership to reduce the environmental footprint of dental clinics