Climate change

It transcends national boundaries, and threatens to affect us all in many different ways: from risks to supply chains, to the direct impact that changes in the climate will have on our customers’ lives and the operation of our stores.

Retail businesses can play a powerful role in tackling climate change. We are determined not only to play our part, but to play a leading role.

On the way to our overall goal of becoming a zero-carbon business by 2050, we have set ourselves a number of targets.

• By 2020, we will halve carbon emissions from our 2006/7 baseline portfolio of stores
• New stores built between 2007 and 2020 to emit half the CO₂ of a 2006 new store
• To reduce the carbon emissions of the products in our supply chain by 30% by 2020
• To find ways to help our customers reduce their own carbon footprints by 50% by 2020
• To reduce the carbon emissions per case of goods delivered by 25% by 2020 against a baseline of 2011/12