Our Statement:
sgfleet is committed to achieving environmental and social sustainability to aid in the preservation of the Earth’s natural resources. sgfleet remains committed to continually improving our environmental and social sustainability performance. We monitor our emissions and benchmark the data on an annual basis, with our target being a 20% reduction in Co2 emissions by 2020. We measure our output relative to the dimensions of our business, being the number of vehicles managed on behalf of customers.
Our performance to date:
In 2008 the company appointed an external organisation to measure the areas in which sgfleet was having the most adverse impact on natural resources. These were identified as electricity usage, air travel, fuel usage in company vehicles and paper usage. These findings were consistent with most office based organisations.
The footprint reported back to sgfleet amounted to less than 1,500 tonnes of Carbon per year, which is significantly less than the Australian Government reporting threshold.
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Following a number of actions undertaken by the business, the 2009 footprint reported fantastic progress and exceeded the initial reduction target of 5%. The most significant improvement was in Electricity Usage (65% of total output) which was down 26% on 2008. This substantial reduction was largely achieved by the consolidation of our premises in Sydney from 3 locations into 2, as our NSW offices contribute over 60% of all emissions. Due to the great results achieved in 2009, sgfleet is well on track to achieve a 20% reduction over the 2008 measurement by the year 2020.
The annual comparison shown below highlights the improvements made in electricity usage, however it also highlights an increase in emissions due to fuel usage. This is due to an increase in the size of our own company vehicle fleet reflecting a corresponding increase in the size of our sales and customer service teams. 
An Environmental and Sustainable Future:
With 97 percent of our emissions being produced by energy, travel and paper, our reduction strategies are clearly focused in these areas.
Energy: With such a substantial decrease in our Energy usage achieved in 2009, our focus will turn to focused strategies to achieve further marginal improvements in this area. To achieve this we will work towards decreasing the amount of energy used in peak times. A 2011 project has highlighted significant savings can be achieved by ensuring all computers and monitors are switched off outside of office hours. This will be monitored to ensure further improvements and savings in energy use.
Air Travel: Air travel is a focus area for reduction and by the use of video conferencing and forward planning, we are confident of reducing air travel to achieve a reduction in emissions.
Paper: Paper usage has reduced through the introduction of double sided printing and a heightened awareness amongst staff of the impact on the environment when printing documents. Further exploration is being undertaken on document management processes, systems and storage to reduce our ongoing consumption.
Fuel: Our focus will turn to vehicle selection and reducing utilisation by encouraging offsite and flexible working arrangements.