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We will help tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions from our business, products and supply chains; and will become Forest Positive, creating more forests than we use by 2025.

Our targets

  • 100% responsibly sourced wood and paper for our products and catalogues by 2025.
  • Become Forest Positive by 2025.
  • Achieve our approved science-based carbon reduction target (scopes 1, 2 and 3) by 2025.
  • Reach net-zero emissions for our operations (scope 1 and 2) by the end of 2040.

Our FY22/23 progress

  • Responsibly sourced 94.5% of wood and paper used in products and 100% of catalogue paper in FY22/23.
  • Founding member of the Rainforest Alliance’s ‘Forest Allies’ initiative and supporting forest projects in tropical regions benefiting over 7,000 people and over 300,000 hectares of forest.
  • B&Q, Castorama France, Castorama Poland and Screwfix established local partnerships to restore, create and protect native woodland and forests.
  • Reduced scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 52.7% since FY16/17 exceeding our FY25/26 target. This is our first step towards achieving net-zero emissions by FY40/41.
  • In FY21/22, we reduced intensity of our scope 3 emissions from the supply chain and customer use of products by 19.7% since FY17/18. Further progress will be reported in our FY22/23 Responsible Business Report, to be published in Q2 2023.

 

Becoming Forest Positive 

Forests are vital for the health of our planet, our communities and our homes. We’ve been working on responsible wood and paper sourcing since the early 1990s and now we’re going further, aiming to become Forest Positive.

Our approach to creating more forest than we use has three elements:

  • 100% responsibly sourced wood and paper across our business.
  • No deforestation through the other materials we use.
  • Protecting and restoring tropical forests.

Helping tackle climate change with ambitious targets

Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. We will support global efforts to reach net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. 

We’ve already cut operational carbon emissions by 52.7% since 2016/17. We are committed to achieve net-zero emissions for our operations (scope 1 and 2) by the end of 2040.

We’re also a founder member of the UN’s Race to Zero Breakthroughs – Retail, a partnership aiming to inspire the world’s largest retailers to take action on climate change.

Low carbon products, low carbon business

To reduce our climate impact, we’re focusing on:

  • In FY22/23 we reduced our carbon footprint for our own operations (scope 1 and 2 emissions) by 52.7%, against a FY16/17 base year. This is our first step towards achieving net zero emissions by FY40/41.
  • Actions during the FY22/23 included continued roll-out of LED lighting in stores, installing or retrofitting air source heat pumps across our Screwfix stores in the UK, and the trialling and deployment of more sustainable fuels and electric vehicles across our delivery fleets. As of 31 January 2023, over 500 of Screwfix’s 872 stores were heated with air source heat pumps, with further roll-out expected this year.
  • Our scope 3 target requires us to achieve a 40% reduction (per £’million turnover) from purchased goods and services and use of sold products by 2025, against a FY17/18 base year. In FY21/22, we have reduced emissions from energy-using products by 1.4 million tonnes of CO2e since 2017/18. This takes account of a product’s estimated lifetime carbon emissions from energy use. This has reduced the intensity of our emissions from the supply chain and customer use of products by 19.7%, meaning we are on track to meet our target of 40% by 2025. Further progress will be reported in our FY22/23 Responsible Business Report, to be published in Q2 2023.

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