The team is very excited to share an important news announcement with our readers today.  We have announced that Tesco the UK’s biggest retailer and the world’s third largest grocery retailer, has selected CA ecoSoftware to help fulfill its long-term commitment to drive down carbon emissions across its global operations.

With 468,000 Tesco employees working at more than 4,000 locations across 14 countries, the task of accounting for carbon emissions is time-consuming and complex. 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.

“When we announced our plan two years ago to reduce our carbon footprint by 50% across all of our global operations, we knew we were taking on a big task,” said Mike Yorwerth, IT director of Tesco plc. “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. We’re also overseeing hundreds of projects around the world designed to reduce our carbon footprint, all of which need to be prioritized and measured. With CA ecoSoftware, we expect to streamline the process of data management, helping to reduce errors and operational expenses, and improve our ability to communicate major milestones.”
 
Based on ambitious targets announced in 2007 using 2006 as a baseline, Tesco plans to halve emissions from existing buildings by 2020; halve distribution emissions of each case of goods delivered by 2012; and halve emissions from new stores by 2020. The company has already halved its energy use per square foot in its UK stores and is diverting 100 percent of waste from its UK business away from landfill, achieving this target almost a year ahead of schedule. 

Tesco also joined our team in London yesterday for an event focused on how enterprises are responding to the new Carbon Reduction Commitment legislation (check out our posts here, here, and here). 

If you’d like to learn more, you can read the full press release here.  You can also visit our CA ecoSoftware page, or follow us on Twitter at @CAecoSoftware.