New service aims to reduce carbon emissions from big business
New service aims to reduce carbon emissions from big business
Sustainability consultants Best Foot Forward are helping Tesco and other retailers to reduce their carbon footprints with its recently launched ‘Product Portfolio Footprinting' service.
The company said its new service would enable businesses with complex supply chains and thousands of different products to quickly measure and manage their carbon footprint.
Early adopter successes
Best Foot Forward has been piloting this approach with organisations including Crown Paints, PepsiCo and Tesco, to help these businesses understand and reduce greenhouse gas emissions across their supply chains.
This is because multinational corporations are increasingly setting ambitious sustainability targets which go beyond their own operations, which thee consultancy said requires a different approach to measurement and reporting.
Simon Miller, director at Best Foot Forward, said: "The traditional ‘lifecycle analysis’ approach to footprinting – looking at the cradle to grave impact of one individual product in detail – can take many weeks for each product. Using Product Portfolio Footprinting, Best Foot Forward analysed over 300 products in less than 10 weeks for Crown Paints."
Supply chain collaboration
Mark Lloyd, sustainability manager at Crown Paints, said: “Our business now has detailed footprints for all of our products manufactured in the UK and we’ve used the findings to set sustainability targets for the business going forward. Crown Paints is working with our supply chain to target high carbon impacts, to see how we can reduce our final product footprints. Product Portfolio Footprinting gives us the ability to do this.”
Andrew Yeo, Tesco head of supply chain carbon reduction, added: “Tesco is committed to reducing the footprint of our full product range by 30%, by 2020. Meeting this target requires rapid action across our business and supply chain and Best Foot Forward is supporting us to measure broadly and to target key hotspots – in any and all of our product categories. We have been really impressed by Best Foot Forward’s portfolio approach to the challenge of carbon reductions at scale.”
