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