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Sustainable development

  2. Sustainable development

  • Here at Eurotunnel, leader in low-carbon transport to meet the expectations of our customers. Did you know, for example?...

    • Eurotunnel has chosen 100% electric rail traction since the design of the Channel Tunnel  
    • Today, 75% of Eurotunnel’s electrical consumption comes from renewable sources
    • A truck crossing the Channel on our freight service emits 14 times less carbon emissions than by ferry*
    • Thanks to all its activities, Eurotunnel avoids about 1.7 million tons of CO2e1 every year
    • Getlink is rated B at CDP, the international benchmark for carbon performance

     

    Eurotunnel, and more broadly the Getlink Group, committed to an ambitious decarbonization trajectory

     

    Although its greenhouse gas emissions are limited (44 ktCO2e in 2023), the Getlink Group has set reduction commitments, covering its direct emissions and those linked to its electricity consumption (scopes 1 & 2) that are compatible with the objectives of the Paris Agreement:

    • - 30% in 2025 compared with 2019, validated by the Science Based Target Initiative
    • - 54% in 2030 compared with 2019,
    • Contribution to the multi-sector net zero carbon expected in 2050.

    Many powerful actions have already been launched by the Group securing a trend of reduction of about 4% to 5% per year:

    • Development of renewable energies for its electricity consumption (off-site and on-site production), optimization of the number of vehicles per shuttle, electrification of industrial equipment for tunnel maintenance and the fleet of vehicles at terminals…
    • For our Eurotunnel freight customers: provisions of electric charging stations for refrigerated vehicles.

    Assumptions for avoided emissions: JMJ 2024 study with 2023 data and:

     

    • Eurotunnel Truck Shuttles: 100% ferry use; (a journey by ferry is estimated at 130 kg CO2eq, i.e. 14 times greater emissions than a journey in electric Truck Shuttles (9 kg CO2eq) according to the 2024 JMJ Conseil study;
    • Eurotunnel Passenger Shuttles: 100% ferry use (a journey by ferry is estimated at 117 kg CO2eq, i.e. 52 times greater emissions than a journey in electric Truck Shuttles (2 kg CO2eq) according to the 2024 JMJ Conseil study;
    • Eurotunnel’s Rail Freight Services customers: on British soil (approximately 50% of the journey), goods are transported entirely by road; on European soil, 50% are transported by road and 50% by rail links in France, Germany and the Netherlands; and
    • Eurotunnel’s High Speed Passenger Train customers (Eurostar): the shift is considered to be 100% to air traffic, considering that the traffic created by the Tunnel would have been created by low-cost airlines and that other shifts (to other tourist destinations) are negligible.
    • Paris-London, Brussels-London and Amsterdam-London passengers accounted over the period 1st October 2022 - 30 September 2023

    See our Carbon Counter

     

    1 *According to a 2024 study by JMJ Conseil, expert in the cross-Channel segment.