TransNeutral is an opt-in program offered by TransGroup Worldwide Logistics to its customers. Opting-in to TransNeutral enables you to 'green' your shipments and make a positive difference for our collective environment with every pound you ship. For every ton of CO2 a TransNeutral shipment produces, another ton is taken away, or prevented - permanently and transparently. That's the TransNeutral promise!

First, we use a weight-based calculation to determine the amount of climate-effecting GHG that your shipment emits; then, we help offset those GHGs by contributing to GHG Emission Reduction programs involving reforestation, wind power and biofuel related farm renewal projects.

The projects we support are all listed on the Chicago Climate Exchange. Through stringent oversight and auditing, these projects accumulate exchangeable carbon credits based on the amount of GHGs they reduce or prevent. These credits are then sold on the CCX in the form of Carbon Financial Instruments (CFI). Each CFI is equivalent to 100 metric tons of CO2 that was removed, or prevented from entering into the atmosphere. Corporations subject to emission regulations can use CFIs to satisfy regulatory requirements. For example, a coal burning power plant that is required to reduce emissions by 6%, but only achieves a reduction of 5%, can purchase (and permanently retire) the appropriate amount of CFI’s to achieve (offset) the additional 1% reduction needed to fulfill the requirement.

TransNeutral 'greens' your shipment in the same manner. Through our partnership with Driveneutral.org (an affiliate of the Presidio School of Management – a CCX member) We purchase and permanently retire large blocks of CFIs, then allocate the appropriate portion of those CFI’s to your TransNeutral shipments - thus offsetting the GHGs that shipment produced.

Only CCX members can trade credits on the exchange. That’s where TransNeutral’s partnership with DriveNeutral comes in. Their parent organization, the Presidio School of Management, is an Associate member of CCX. The School buys and permanently retires blocks of carbon credits, which TransNeutral purchases with the dollars collected from each opt-in customer’s shipment.

You can monitor the offsets associated with your shipments by receiving a quarterly TransNeutral Greening Report that details your specific results.

No. TransNeutral is simply a convenient and effective way for our customers to mitigate the climate-effecting impact that their shipments have on the environment.

Yes. As a corporate environmental stewardship initiative, every dollar we collect when our customers opt-in, goes directly toward the purchase and subsequent retirement of CFI’s. The more customers that choose to opt-in, the more CFI’s we retire – thus, the more CO2 we remove from, or prevent from entering into the environment.

Presently, commercial shipping is the world’s third largest source of climate-effecting toxic substances (1), and GHG emissions are expected to increase as global trade expands. As a leader in Transport Logistics, we at TransGroup feel a responsibility to the planet and to our industry. By operating as a not-for-profit venture, TRANSNEUTRAL is not only able to maximize the GHG offset for each of our opt-in customers, but also to work collectively toward preserving the environment and preventing climate change from driving commercial transportation the way of the dinosaur.

1. German journal "Bild der Wissenschaft 1/2006

We use averages and statistics based on our past shipment records and official agencies, such as the USDOT and USEPA to determine a benchmark of CO2 emission per pound shipped. While this is not a perfect calculation for looking at any specific shipment ‘under a microscope’, we feel that it averages out equitably when looking at the aggregate volume of shipments. Therefore, we feel that this method is the best way to help our non-regulated customers proactively offset the CO2 emissions their shipments are responsible for.

Yes. TransNeutral will work with our customers who are required to meet regulated standards, to customize our calculation and reporting method to meet those specific requirements.

TransNeutral only supports projects whose results can be verified by an independent third party - period. Our partnership with DriveNeutral enables us to do just that, by facilitating the purchase of emission reduction credits directly through the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), which supplies the highest quality, third-party-verified and legally accountable emissions reductions credits available.

Yes. Our partnership with DriveNeutral gives us access to experts that can facilitate contributions to non-CCX member projects that are equally monitored to ensure the efficacy of their GHG reduction efforts. Therefore, if you wish to support a project that you think may be appropriate for TransNeutral funds, please contact us.

Not necessarily, but we prefer to ‘act locally’ when possible - especially since the results of CO2 reductions in any given location have a positive impact globally.

We feel that supporting carbon-reducing projects ‘close-to-home’ creates a deeper social connection between our efforts and the contributions of our customers. In other words, when the results are more tangible and evident, it helps to legitimize the value of the collective effort and also ad impact and value to the public relations aspect - which is a side benefit to those who participate.

Neutralizing or offsetting is basically counterbalancing. Encarta describes carbon-neutralizing as: counteracting release of carbon dioxide: relating to the maintenance of a balance between producing and using carbon, especially balancing carbon-dioxide emissions by activities such as growing plants to use as fuel or planting trees in urban areas to offset vehicle emissions.

By opting-in to TransNeutral, you are funding large-scale emissions reductions projects that result in verifiable CO2 reductions. Shipments are carbon-neutralized through the purchase and retirement of CFIs, which represent real, verifiable amounts of carbon emissions that were reduced, or never created, as a result of those projects. In other words, if your shipments resulted in 25,000 lbs. of CO2 emissions last year, your opt-in contributions will purchase 25,000 lbs. pounds of verified CO2 reductions – thereby offsetting, or ‘neutralizing’ the CO2 emissions that your shipments resulted in.