Streamlined Emissions Reporting: DP World selected Watershed to centralize and scale sustainability reporting across Europe, supporting compliance with frameworks like CSRD.
Finance-Sustainability Integration: Cross-functional collaboration between finance and sustainability teams enables data-driven decisions balancing emissions and cost.
Client-Focused Low-Carbon Logistics: Automated emissions tracking will allow DP World to provide customer-level insights and improve low-carbon freight decisions.
DP World has partnered with enterprise climate platform Watershed to modernize and scale its sustainability reporting across European operations. Operating in over 75 countries, the logistics leader faced challenges with fragmented data, rising regulatory demands, and varying levels of sustainability maturity across its regions. Watershed was selected for its speed of deployment, scalability, and ability to operate without costly consulting services.
“Previously, DP World relied on internal data collection methods that did not meet sustainability requirements for detailed analytical data or evolving national and regional disclosure standards,” said Nicholas Mazzei, VP Sustainability Europe at DP World. “Watershed came in as the best partner to help us attain our sustainability goals while allowing us to be flexible and cost-efficient. Regardless of whether disclosure is a legal requirement, understanding our data helps us better understand our business.”
To meet EU regulations such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), DP World will now use Watershed’s platform to collect and analyze emissions data at both site and country levels. This will allow DP World to provide real-time, accurate emissions data to regulators and customers—enhancing transparency and accelerating its climate goals.
Beyond compliance, DP World is embedding emissions data into broader business metrics. The company’s sustainability and finance teams are working in tandem to ensure climate-related decisions are tied to overall performance.
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“We have to align sustainability decisions as much as we can with business decisions, and the challenge for business is to find ways of making them align,” said DP World Europe CFO John Woollacott. “All kinds of stakeholders—clients and suppliers, employees and would-be employees on top of regulators—do want to know where a company stands and having a way of keeping score is important. But it is critical that reporting doesn’t get over complicated and focuses on a small number of the most important KPIs.”
With Watershed, DP World will also be able to calculate customer-level emissions, giving teams the data to evaluate trade-offs—such as comparing the carbon impact and cost of switching freight from road to barge. This capability not only enhances service for clients but also gives the finance team full visibility to assess return on investment and operational value.
The partnership signals DP World’s commitment to integrating sustainability into the core of its logistics strategy—making emissions data both actionable and aligned with business goals.
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