Tesco has signed up to become the main sponsor of Climate Week in the UK next year. The week, which is dedicated to raising awareness of global warming, is due to take place between 21 and 27 March 2011. David North, Tesco community and government director, commented:
"Business has a critical job to do mobilising customers, suppliers and employees to cut energy use, cut carbon and ensure future growth is sustainable growth. At Tesco we've set ourselves a big target to become a zero-carbon business by 2050. We can only bring about that lasting change by working with others. We're delighted to join forces with Climate Week to inspire, to inform and to lead a revolution in green consumption".
Climate Week is a national event organised over a one week period that offers an annual review of ambitions in the fight to combat climate change in the UK. During the week, businesses, charities, schools, councils and others will run events to demonstrate successes, share ideas and encourage others to act during the rest of the year.
This year Tesco was named the top retailer in the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)'s 2010 UK FTSE 350 report in October. Lucy Neville-Rolfe commented at the time: "We want to work with our suppliers to green our supply chain and help our customers to switch to low-carbon lives".
As part of Tesco's targets, the retailer is aiming to reduce emissions of the products in its supply chain by 30% by 2020. The retailer has said it will achieve this goal through 'genuine, open source collaboration' with its suppliers. Additionally, the retailer is finding ways to help its customers reduce their own carbon footprints by 50% by 2020.
Tesco moving chicken around
回覆刪除Found some real interestin article about unsustainable food chains. This one comes from a very sustainable retailer Tesco. Even for them a long way to go.
http://thewritefuture.typepad.com/the-write-future/2011/03/chicken-2.html