To play our part in mitigating climate change, we are committed to breaking the link between business growth and an increasing carbon footprint by minimising our energy use and investing in renewable sources of energy.
We are also empowering and engaging suppliers and consumers in our carbon reduction journey.
Our pledges made in 2008
- All energy used in PIUK manufacturing and distribution to be from renewable sources within 15 years.
- Increase total share of PIUK electricity from renewable sources from 8% to 14% within 3 years.
- Reduce PIUK energy use by a further 20% per kg of production within 3 years.
- Replace PIUK distribution fleet with the latest low-emissions vehicles, and reduce harmful pollutant by 60% within 10 years.
- Use waste frying oil from Walkers as a 5% mix biofuel in our UK distribution fleet.
- All our British manufacturing sites to be ISO 14001 accredited by the end of 2008.
- Quaker to work towards adopting the Carbon Trust Carbon Reduction Label.
- Walkers to incentivise and engage the public on holidaying in Britain during 2008.
For full details of these and all our pledges, read or download our Environmental Sustainability Report, published in 2008.
Key achievements
In the first year after our pledges we:
- doubled our share of electricity from renewable sources from 8% to 16%, exceeding our 3-year target by 2%
- held our absolute carbon emissions flat, despite a business growth of almost 10%
- reduced our energy use by 11.8%, head of schedule to achieving a 20% reduction by 2011.
For details on progress against all our pledges, read or download our Environmental Sustainability Update, published in 2009.
