Transport Changes Reduce Carbon Emissions

Even if you don’t have any issue with your current transport solutions, consider thinking about them differently.

What if you could use a transport company that uses electric vehicles, or a transport company that has invested in alternative energy technologies to reduce carbon emissions?

What if you could use bicycle couriers for local deliveries instead of a gas-guzzling, carbon dioxide-producing vehicle?

Eleven years ago an entrepreneur dreamed of delivering beautiful bunches of flowers by bicycle couriers. A romantic notion? Perhaps. Particularly when the Little Flowers business was established in the Inner West of Sydney. 

When the business started and as the reality of parking a van full of bunches of flowers in Sydney CBD and delivering on foot became a logistical nightmare, the dream took hold. A chance meeting in a lift with a bike courier delivering documents paved the way for implementing bike courier deliveries.

A new delivery system was established and a fleet of bike couriers delivering flowers has grown. The bikes are loaded with flowers in a tray at the front with the fragrant smell and pretty flowers bringing smiles to people as they do their deliveries.

When Little Flowers achieved a milestone of 100,000 bunches of flowers delivered by bike couriers, they asked us to undertake an analysis to determine what the impact had been.

We discussed the details of the deliveries and obtained data from Little Flowers to assess their carbon emission savings. Our analysis showed they reduced their carbon footprint by approximately 36.7 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents over the past ten years.

Little Flowers didn’t want a full ESG report detailing every detail of their business. What they were interested to know was the impact of that one initiative.

You might think a small change doesn’t make a big difference, but it can be the small changes that have the biggest impact.

Next time you’re looking for a transport solution think about how you could change what you’re doing to reduce your carbon footprint.

We are seeing more businesses promote their sustainability work which is great news. What we love more than that is analysing the data to show how much they have reduced their carbon footprint. With the overall aim of reducing carbon emissions to zero over the coming years, knowing your carbon numbers and complying with ESG reporting requirements will be a key element of business success.

We are proud to advise that this article was written by the team and not produced by AI.