Climate change

We want to play a leadership role in tackling climate change. Evolving scientific evidence tells us that we need to move ever more quickly to reduce emissions. Despite the recession, customers want to be green and expect us to be too.

We employ 470,000 people around the world, and many more people work in firms and businesses supplying our stores. Our aim is to mobilise collective action among customers, suppliers and employees, to help protect the environment, and generate a mass movement in green consumption.

Our climate change programme has three main parts:

• leading by example – reducing our own direct carbon footprint;
• working with our supply chains and partners to reduce emissions more broadly;
• leading a revolution in green consumption.

TARGETS

Leading by example

• Continue to reduce the footprint of our existing buildings by 50% by 2020 (compared with 2006)
• Ensure all new buildings, on average, emit 50% less CO2e by 2020 compared to an equivalent store in 2006
• Continue to map the total direct carbon footprint of the Tesco business across all the countries in which we operate and publish this carbon footprint for all to see
• Seek to restrict air transport to less than 1% of our products

Working with suppliers and partners

• Work with our suppliers to reduce emissions related to products

Leading a revolution in green consumption

• Help customers to understand their own carbon footprint and what they can do to reduce it
• Bring down the cost of going green, including through offering more energy-efficient products throughout our Value range
• Work with the Energy Saving Trust to develop stronger energy-efficiency labelling for our electrical products – from light bulbs to TVs
• Promote and incentivise green behaviour through our Clubcard scheme
• Increase the number of footprinted products to 500 and communicate the findings to customers
• Introduce carbon labels in South Korea