Tesco Adopts New Carbon Accounting Software

Thu, 01 Oct 2009

Tesco has announced it has implemented new carbon accounting software to help reduce emissions and prepare for upcoming environmental legislation .

The supermarket chain has signed a deal with carbon accounting technology supplier, CA ecoSoftware, to help it achieve its green target of cutting emissions from 2006 levels in half by 2020 and halving distribution CO2 levels by 2012.

A statement by the company said: "Tesco has implemented CA ecoSoftware to help increase the efficiency, speed, and accuracy of its carbon accounting process, enabling the company to more effectively track progress in pursuit of its ambitious carbon reduction goals."

Mike Yorwerth, IT director of Tesco, added: "We announced our (carbon reduction) plan two years ago to reduce our carbon footprint by 50 per cent across all of our global operations we knew we were taking on a big task."

"Since that time a number of people across the business have been involved in measuring, documenting and reporting on our emissions - a time-consuming, largely manual task."

Terrence Clark, senior vice president of CA’s ecoSoftware group, explained that although Tesco is looking for the software to track and manage the retailer’s carbon footprint, the technology also has applications that apply beyond the supply chain.

Tesco, the UK’s largest retailer, implemented the software over the course of August and has been testing it since the start of September.

The move comes ahead of the government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment, a mandatory carbon trading system that will come into effect next April and affect all large companies in the UK.
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