User:Fossil Fuels/FedEx

Contribution to Climate Change:
As FedEx pushes towards its goal to be carbon-neutral by 2040 with its initiative of an electric fleet of ground delivery vans, FedEx currently takes responsibility for contributing to climate change through FedEx Express and FedEx Ground services. Their use of kerosene jet-fuel to power their airplanes and diesel to power their trucks emit carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. FedEx's emissions further the contribution to air pollution from global transportation services which are linked to several health issues such as respiratory and heart diseases as well as cancer. The combustion of jet fuel from airplanes releases carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide as well as different particulate matter, which are all harmful to the environment and are a contributing factor to climate change. Similarly, the combustion of diesel in trucks releases these same hazardous gases into the atmosphere.

FedEx's initiatives to be carbon-neutral by 2040 will allow them to reduce their negative contributions to climate change drastically, however they may fall short of this goal. As mentioned in their 2021 10-K filling, they are at risk of being unable to achieve being carbon neutral by 2040 due to potential inability to execute the business operations as planned. In the result of this happening, FedEx will continue to emit carbon dioxide and other harmful gases into the atmosphere through their use of diesel and kerosene jet-fuel to power their vehicles.

Success of Current Environmental Practices:
FedEx's current practices has allowed them to avoid several amounts of emissions. From their current fleet of electric vehicles and more efficient delivery routes they have avoided roughly 950,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. Through the FedEx Fuel Sense program, FedEx was able to save about 221 million gallons of fuel and avoided nearly 2 million metric tons of carbon dioxide.