Cleaner atmosphere with less greenhouse gases

For decades, we have been committed to preventing and reducing our direct greenhouse gas emissions (scope 1 of the GHG Protocol). We have reviewed all our activities and identified four areas where we have the highest carbon emissions and thus climate impact. This is what we are trying hardest to reduce. Our biggest CO₂ hotspots are:

• Cooling and coolants
• Heating
• Energy 
• Mobility

We continuously invest in innovative solutions to avoid and reduce our direct greenhouse gas emissions in each of these four areas.

For example, the products on our shelves and the materials we use have an indirect impact on the climate. Using LCA (life cycle assessments) analyses, we look at the entire life cycle of these products and materials: from raw material to production, packaging, transport, use, waste treatment, recycling, etc. The factors with the greatest impact on climate change are tackled first, in close cooperation with our suppliers. 

We also create indirect CO₂ emissions when it comes to mobility: the trips of our customers to our stores, the home-workplace commute of our workers and the transport of goods that we don’t organise ourselves. We also want to make this transport sustainable.

The CO₂ that we still emit (within scope 1 and 2 of the GHG Protocol), is recaptured by planting a large forest. Trees extract CO₂ from the air by storing it in their biomass and are therefore one of the most efficient solutions against climate change.