G4S
“ By 2025 , we want at least 40 % of our passenger cars to be zero carbon , and all of them by 2030 ”
JON WILLESCROFT CHIEF PROCUREMENT OFFICER , G4S
At present , in the United Kingdom and Ireland ( UK & I ), an important focus of sustainability efforts centre around the decarbonisation of the company ’ s vehicle fleet .
Willescroft says : “ We ’ ve made great progress in the last year with our fleet decarbonisation . More than three-quarters of our new vehicle orders have been lowemission vehicles .”
G4S ’ renewal programme around its vehicle fleet is ambitious . To help it decarbonise its car and light-commercial vehicle fleet , it turned in 2021 to global fleet leasing company LeasePlan , which is helping G4S UK & I decarbonise its fleet , while also working with it on using technology to drive cost savings .
Globally , G4S has about 15,000 vehicles . These include motorcycles and passenger cars , commercial vehicles and heavyarmoured vehicles for the cash business . It has around 2,500 in the UK and Ireland , of which roughly 1,600 are cars and commercial vehicles , and it is these vehicles LeasePlan and G4S are initially prioritising to make carbon neutral .
Under targets set out in its Road to Zero strategy , G4S aims to have all its passenger cars zero carbon by 2030 , followed by light commercial vehicles
in 2035 and its entire fleet by 2040 . It is also making use of telematics and fleet management tools to optimise operations and improve safety .
But in the face of ongoing supply chain issues in the automotive industry – caused by the global shortage of microchips – progress has been far from straightforward ; G4S has been unable to freely move employees into more carbonfriendly vehicles as quickly as it would like , because the supply has not been there .
Most of the company ’ s operational fleet is low- to mid-range vehicles but , on the company car side , it also uses mid-range to premium vehicles .
34 April 2023