Send your parcel carbon neutral
With Australia Post, parcel postage paid via the Post Office, Online Shop, or MyPost Business account is carbon neutral.1
How we’ll reduce our environmental impact
Australia Post is committed to carbon-neutral parcel delivery, which is why we introduced our Climate Active certified Carbon Neutral Deliveries program. Since 2019, we've sent 200+ million parcels carbon neutral, which is the equivalent of taking 117,000 cars off the road – or roughly 280,000 tonnes of emissions.
What is carbon neutral?
The process of delivering a parcel emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is shown to harm our environment.
To ensure our delivery is carbon neutral we:
How carbon offsetting works
We calculate how much carbon is used when we process, ship and deliver our parcels using trains, planes and trucks.
This calculation is verified as part of the Climate Active program, which provides guidance on measuring, reducing, offsetting and reporting emissions that occur as a result of our operations.
To balance our emissions footprint and to help us achieve carbon neutrality, we buy carbon credits through our partnership with Qantas Future Planet. The number of credits we buy match the calculated emissions for the deliveries provided to our customers.
By sending your parcels with Australia Post, you’re supporting our carbon-offset projects that have positive environmental and social impacts.1
Our partnership with Qantas Future Planet
Carbon neutral parcel delivery
Our carbon neutral parcel delivery is made possible through our partnership with Qantas Future Planet.
This program procures carbon offsets from reputable Australian and overseas projects, to compensate for delivery emissions.
Carbon neutral deliveries for our Parcel Contract customers
In conjunction with Qantas Future Planet, our Parcel Contract customers can purchase carbon credits to offset emissions from their deliveries within Australia and to international delivery hubs.
Carbon Neutral Deliveries Program
To counter the carbon emissions of our parcels, we invest in projects that have a positive impact on the environment in Australia and overseas. Some of the projects we're proud to support include:
Bush regeneration
These carbon farming projects work with landholders to regenerate and protect native vegetation.
By erecting fencing and actively managing invasive species, the project avoids emissions caused by clearing and achieves key environmental and biodiversity benefits.
The projects help improve marginal land, reduce salinity and erosion, and provide income to farmers.
Fighting fire with fire
In the absence of fire management by Aboriginal Traditional Landowners, Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory is prone to extreme, devastating wildfires that damage the landscape, including rock art galleries, cultural sites and biodiversity.
ALFA – Arnhem Land Fire Abatement, is an Aboriginal owned, not-for-profit carbon farming business, that supports Aboriginal Traditional Owners and rangers to utilise customary fire knowledge and skills in tandem with contemporary technology to accomplish highly sophisticated landscape scale fire management.
Their projects deliver significant emissions reductions while supporting environmental, cultural and social outcomes.
Winds of change
Across Asia, wind farms introduce clean energy to the grid which would otherwise be generated by coal-fired power stations. Wind power is clean as it produces no emissions and avoids the local air pollutants associated with fossil fuels. Electricity availability in the regions has been improved, reducing the occurrence of blackouts across the area. These projects support national energy security and strengthen rural electrification coverage.
Rainforest rescue
Projects across South America, Oceania and Africa protect millions of hectares of native forests, which secure wildfire habitat and support local communities. One of these projects protects large, intact expanses of Peru rainforest that would otherwise be cleared, preventing the release of millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions each year. Protecting the forests secures the carbon stored with the organic matter.
We’re committed to helping build a more sustainable future by reducing by reducing our environmental impacts, facilitating a circular economy and ensuring a transparent and traceable supply chain.
Read about our targets, goals and achievements.
1 Carbon offset for international parcel deliveries is to the international hub only.
