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accelerating its target to become Net Zero in its own operations by 2035, five years earlier than its original ambition and aligned to UN’s goal to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees.
The retailer has cut its carbon footprint by 47% in the last 17 years despite its space increasing by over 40%. In the last year, Sainsbury’s has reduced its absolute greenhouse gas emissions from its own operations by 25,580 tCO2
e, year-on-year. To help achieve its target A
sda has opened its first premium ‘Extra Special’ convenience store offering
motorists the opportunity to shop the supermarket’s deluxe product range in a convenient roadside location.
The store, which is located on EG Group’s Oxford Road forecourt in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, stocks 2,500 products including a large selection of Asda’s premium range products. These include an extensive selection of fresh and chilled ‘Extra Special’ products, as well as ready meals and beers, wines and spirits, offering great value and quality compared with rival forecourt grocery formats. Asda previously announced it would open a further 28 AOTM
(Asda On the Move) sites with EG Group in the coming months before extending to 200 locations in 2022, as the supermarket enters into the convenience market in partnership with EG for the first time and executes its strategy of bringing Asda products to existing and new customers in more convenient locations. The first three AOTM stores opened in the Midlands in October 2020. A second premium AOTM store will launch in Hartlebury before the end of the year, with five further locations set to receive an extended range of Extra Special products.
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ainsbury’s has today strengthened its commitment to tackle the climate crisis by
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Sainsbury’s will install 100% LED lighting across its supermarkets by the end of this year, reducing lighting energy consumption by 70% and store energy consumption by 20%. This follows an extensive financial investment of £320 million in the past ten years, funding more than 3,100 sustainable initiatives. By the end of the year the supermarket will be using 100% renewable electricity across its entire estate and has committed to the long-term purchasing of renewable energy from new wind farms and solar projects to be built over the next two years, significantly reducing its reliance on fossil fuels.
The United Nations this year
warned that global warming of 2°C will be exceeded during the 21st century unless emissions are rapidly reduced in the coming decades. Sainsbury’s has moved forward its goal for net zero in its own operations, recognising that we must all act now to protect the planet for generations to come. The retailer has made significant progress in the last two years, reducing its greenhouse gas emissions in its own operations by 14%. However, to meet its ambition target Sainsbury’s acknowledges that it will need to collaborate with government, industry, suppliers and academia to share knowledge and find solutions.
As a retailer sourcing over 30,000 products from over 70 countries Sainsbury’s is also working collaboratively with its suppliers to set their own ambitious net zero commitments, with the goal of reducing Scope 3 emissions in its value chain by 30% by 2030. This includes reducing emissions from purchased goods and services sold, upstream transport and distribution and the direct use of sold products. This year Sainsbury’s has written to 400 of its top suppliers asking them to report and disclose against their carbon reduction targets.
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