Environmental Impact

WORKING WITH CUSTOMERS TO CONSERVE RESOURCES AND ENHANCE SUSTAINABILITY

At no other time in history has there been more concern about the future of the planet. As more governments put environmental plans into action and consumers make more purchasing decisions based upon a company’s sustainability performance, supply chain and logistics operations are tasked to be part of the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Descartes has a wide range of solutions that improve supply chain and logistics productivity and performance and help customers reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other polluting activities.


Significant positive environmental impact can come from taking technology-enabled actions like providing eco-friendly delivery options that minimize distance and fuel consumption, digitizing logistics processes that eliminate paper documents, and reducing wasteful vehicle congestion, idling and speeding. The opportunities go well beyond individual organizations and supply chains to multi-party collaboration that reduces deliveries to malls and shopping areas and “empty miles” due to inefficient matching of shipments to carriers.


We’re focused on helping our customers improve their performance while helping the planet.

Every year we help save:
>693,000

Metric Tons of CO2

WITH ROUTING, MOBILE & TELEMATICS
5% - 25%

Reduction of fuel consumption

1-3

Pages of paper eliminated per delivery

Download our Environmental Impact Guide to learn more about how Descartes’ solutions reduce greenhouse emissions.

By helping to reduce fuel consumption and paper, Descartes helps reduce greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, and other polluting emissions from burning fossil fuels for transportation, paper production and waste decomposition in landfills.

fuel gauge

Transporting goods requires fuel. Descartes helps reduce fuel consumption with technology solutions that consolidate shipments, optimize routes, enhance utilization, improve precision, and steer customers toward greener delivery choices. This cuts drive distances, curbs idle time, and helps best utilize transportation assets.

WITH TRANSPORTATION MANAGEMENT
5% - 10%

Reduction in fuel consumption

1-5

Pages of paper eliminated per delivery

Download our Environmental Impact Guide to learn more about how Descartes’ solutions reduce fuel.
WITH COMMERCIAL & LOGISTICS MESSAGING
1-5

Pages of paper eliminated per transaction

WITH CUSTOMS & REGULATORY COMPLIANCE FILINGS
1-10

Pages of paper eliminated per entry

Download our Environmental Impact Guide to learn more about how Descartes’ solutions eliminate paper.

Moving goods requires documentation. Descartes automates manual processes with solutions that eliminate paper-based shipment manifests, customs filings, driver logs, proof of delivery, invoices, warehouse pick sheets and other logistics and supply chain documents.

IN 2022, WITH THESE METHODS, DESCARTES HELPED ELIMINATE:

>693,000

Metric Tons of CO2

2.4 Billion

Sheets of Paper

>902.8 Million

Liters of Fuel

*INFOGRAPHIC CALCULATIONS WERE MADE USING THE PAPER CALCULATOR FROM ENVIRONMENTAL PAPER NETWORK, THE VEHICLE CO2 EMISSIONS CALCULATOR FROM COMMERCIAL FLEET, FUEL ECONOMY DATA FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, AND IDLING EMISSIONS DATA FROM DIESELNET AND FROST & SULLIVAN

The savings and projections reflected in these infographics are based on a number of assumptions, estimates and calculations. Descartes believes that each of these are reasonable and supportable in the context in which they have been calculated but the numbers and quantities expressed are not the result of actual measured amounts and instead are forecasted amounts. Readers are cautioned to view these infographics in that context and to use them only for informational purposes.

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