Climate change
We aim to make all our UK & Irish operations carbon neutral by 2012. We'll maximise our use of renewable energy and only use offsetting as a last resort. And, we'll be helping our customers and suppliers to cut their carbon emissions too.
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- 16. UK and Republic of Ireland
Sourcing as much food as possible from the UK and Republic of Ireland.
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- 17. Seasonal food
Having launched five Research and Development projects we aim to develop production systems for crops not normally grown in the UK.
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- 18. Supplier logistics
Working with our suppliers to understand how we can improve the efficiency of their deliveries to our distribution centres, including increasing the use of rail transport.
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- 19. Food 'carbon footprint'
Working with the Carbon Trust we will identify carbon ‘hot spots’ in our food supply chain in 2007 and set targets to reduce CO2 emissions.
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- 20. Reducing air freight
Investigating and minimising our use of air freight whilst balancing the need to trade with developing countries and provide nutritional choice.
Climate change progress so far
Since 2007 we've reduced our CO2 emissions by 96,000 tonnes
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