Environmental Mandate |
The “Bucharest World Postal Strategy” was adopted by the Congress of Bucharest 2004. This document of strategic planning over the period 2005-2008 includes Objective 4 “Postal Reform and Sustainable Development”.Program 3 of Objective 4 above mentions various goals:
- Make postal operators more aware the need introduce/speed up changes in their production process
- Taking account of environmental protection issues
- Ensure that as many member countries as possible observe the concept of sustainable development
- Increase cooperation with the governmental and non-governmental organizations responsible for environmental protection issues
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Environmental Activities |
At the 23rd Congress of the UPU in Bucharest 2004, it was decided to create a Task Force “Environment and Sustainable Development” whose 2005-2008 work programme includes:·
- Gathering feedback from national postal services in order to understand their vision, actions and policy regarding sustainable development
- Updating the Guide “Postal services and the environment
- Developing a tool-kit for self-diagnosis of postal services· Implementing a public awareness campaign of postal services and their employees on the benefits implementing sustainable development polices
- Organising an international conference on environment and sustainable development for national postal services in 2006
- Continuing cooperation with UNEP
- Continuing cooperation with the Group “Environment” of PostEurop
- Planning and conducting a 2008 international audit on the sustainable development practices of the national postal services of UPU member states
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