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Our sustainability reporting reflects our updated Group purpose and how integral sustainability is to our strategy and success. Our Annual Report includes updates on our most material issues and we provide comprehensive disclosures on a much wider range of sustainability topics here on our Reporting Hub.

Our reporting approach

Materiality & governance

Zero-deforestation soy initiative underway with major UK supermarket backing

UK supermarkets Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose have invested US$ 11 million in the Responsible Commodities Facility.

School’s out and stress is in this summer, as parents battle to entertain kids

Find our handy Summer Hack Pack for helpful holiday ideas

Generous shoppers thanked for food donations

A massive thank you to our customers for their support with our Summer Food Collection.

Kids eat free at Tesco cafes

Tesco has announced it will be offering free kids’ meals to Clubcard holders with any item purchased

Tesco removes plastic from own brand multipack drinks

Shoppers are to be given more freedom of choice when buying multipack drinks as part of a major move by Tesco to save 45 million pieces of plastic a year.

Investing in our colleagues

New partnership agreement with USDAW

Heatwave brings on bumper crops

Bumper cherry and strawberry crops result in kilo boxes of both fruits going on sale for less.

New survey shows untapped potential of pharmacy services

The three leading health charities, in partnership with Tesco, are encouraging people to use their local Tesco pharmacies for information and support on lowering their risk of cancer, type 2 diabetes, and heart and circulatory diseases.

Tesco makes it easier to help local food banks and charities this summer

The Tesco Food Collection is taking place in every large Tesco store across the UK from Thursday, June 30 until Saturday, July 2

Tesco launches partnership with Dame Deborah James

This partnership will reach over six million households in six months to raise awareness of bowel cancer across the UK.

Reusable packaging update

An update to our Loop trial

Tesco thanks Armed Forces with free breakfasts

On the 26th of June, Armed Forces personnel will be offered a free breakfast at Tesco cafes

First Quarter Trading Statement 2022/23

Today we announced our First Quarter Trading Statment

Developing new UK recycling solutions

We prioritise measures to Remove, Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in our 4Rs packaging strategy.

Farming and sustainable agriculture

A boost to British dairy farmers

Colleagues

Supporting 3 major LGBTQ+ charities we have donated almost £100,000.

Innovation winners

Today we announced the winners of our innovation accelerator programme in partnership with WWF

Healthy, sustainable diets

We will continue to help customers eat more healthily and deliver our commitment to make Tesco the easiest place for customers to shop for affordable, healthy, sustainable food.

A better basket

We aim to help customers fill their baskets with better choices.

Farming and sustainable agriculture

How we are helping the farming and agriculture sector

Farming and sustainable agriculture

£10million in extra funding for UK pig farmers

Farming and sustainable agriculture

UK must act now on food security and sustainability

Environment

We've opened up supply chains to sustainability start ups

Environment

Tesco to ban wet wipes containing plastic

Colleagues

Why I’m excited about making change for our LGBTQ+ communities at Tesco.

Community

Tesco becomes first supermarket to join defibrillator network that could save lives

52%

reduction in Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions vs 2015

45%

reduction in food waste vs 2016/17

1.6 billion

pieces of plastic packaging removed since 2019

59 billion

calories removed from our food since 2018

83%

of colleagues agree that there is an inclusive culture at Tesco

3 million +

meals redistributed through our Buy One to Help a Child campaign in 2021

Topic factsheets

Climate change

Download Climate change factsheet

Healthy, sustainable diets

Download Healthy diets factsheet

Diversity & inclusion

Download Diversity & Inclusion factsheet

Food waste and packaging

Download Food waste factsheet Download Packaging factsheet

Sustainability Databook 2021/22

See our progress against our sustainability KPIs, material topic data and our Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB) disclosure here.

Download Databook 2021/22

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Methodologies

View our methodologies and performance statements for some of our KPI's here.

Climate

Tesco carbon footprint 2021/22 - Deloitte Assurance Opinion

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Method for calculating our carbon footprint

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Diversity and Inclusion

Tesco Diversity & Inclusion 2021/22 - Deloitte Assurance Opinion

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Diversity & Inclusion – Gender and Ethnicity methodology

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Food Waste

Food Waste methodology

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Tesco Food Waste 2021/22 - Deloitte Assurance Opinion

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Our Food Waste Recalculation policy

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Healthy, sustainable diets

Percentage of healthy sales methodology

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Tesco healthy sales 2021/22 - Deloitte Assurance Opinion

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Indices and Benchmarks

Indices, benchmarks and scorecards provide us with an external perspective on our sustainability performance and help us track and asses our progress.

See our performance

Access to Nutrition Initiative

Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare

Fashion Transparency Index

MSCI Esg Rating

Planting up progress

World Benchmarking Alliance

Investors

Learn about what Tesco is doing to serve our investors a little better everyday.

Sustainability

Learn about Tesco's approach to sustainability, including planet, colleagues and communities.

Multi-stakeholder

See our list of multi-stakeholder initiatives for responsible sourcing