100% Green electricity by 2025.
We will reduce our scope 1 and 2 emissions by 63%
from our 2015 baseline by 2030 – this represents
our direct operational emissions and our emissions
from electricity use. This target has been ratified
by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), an
independent global body formed by the United
Nations Global Compact, CDP, the World Resources
Institute and the World Wildlife Fund for Nature.
The SBTi assesses and approves companies’
targets through a scientific lens, ensuring
alignment with the Paris Agreement goal
of limiting climate change to an increase
of 1.5 degrees above pre‑industrial levels.
To achieve this target globally, it is forecast that
net positive carbon emissions will be required.
This is why we have set our 2050 (or earlier)
goal, encompassing scope 1 and 2 emissions,
to go beyond net zero.
Our ambition is to remove more emissions from
the atmosphere than we are responsible for. Our
strategies to achieve this will continue to evolve
over this time horizon and will be communicated
in our sustainability updates and annual reports.
Our main sources of scope 1 (direct) emissions
include emissions from fugitive synthetic
refrigerants, natural gas, transport fuel, stationary
LPG and diesel for onsite back‑up generators,
while our scope 2 (indirect) emissions are those
associated with electricity use. Purchased electricity
represents 82% of our combined scope 1 and 2
emissions, in F21 accounting for 1.91 million tonnes
of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2
e). The next
most significant category being refrigerant gases.
This year, we emitted over 2.31 million tonnes of
CO2
e from facilities across the Group (scope 1 and
2 emissions). Positively, our current emissions are
27% below our 2015 baseline. This continues our
positive trend on emission reductions on both an
absolute basis as well as an intensity measure.
We intend to reduce our scope 3 emissions by
19% from our 2015 baseline. These represent
the emissions in our value chain. Our scope 3
emissions include fuel consumption by our logistics
transport, business travel and home delivery and
trolley collection services. Our value chains are
complex and we are working to improve our data
to enable us to better understand our scope 3
emissions. Over the coming year, we will define
our approach to addressing our scope 3 emissions
reduction target, in partnership with our suppliers