As a company, we recognize our responsibility to mitigate climate change. With our focus on the sales, marketing and distribution of products, a significant part of our environmental impact results from warehousing, transport and logistics, and business-related travel. We are committed to conducting our business in an environmentally sustainable manner and we have reduced our emissions by optimizing transport and energy use over the past years.
Against the 2020 baseline, DKSH targets to reduce 65% of the total greenhouse gas emissions from our own direct operations by 2025, and by 70% by 2027. In the long term, we aim to achieve net-zero operations by improving efficiency and optimizing transport routes and truck loads, installing more energy-saving equipment as well as increasing the share of electric and hybrid vehicles in our fleets.
A strong commitment to bring a positive impact to the local communities we operate in has also always been an integral part of our business. We supported 96 social projects across our markets last year.