Tesco, the British equivalent to Wal-Mart, has recently decided it, too, needs to go green!

Climare Change Corp. writes

Tesco’s latest corporate responsibility review outlines the key aims of the born-again supermarket. These include adopting a number of measures to become climate-friendly. They have landmark plans, such as building renewables on-site, launching a £100 million climate technologies fund, and carbon labelling goods in store.

Tesco’s new climate friendly policies not only give the supermarket a new look, they also fall neatly in line with recently announced plans by the UK government to include supermarkets in the emissions trading scheme and encourage a carbon labelling scheme into place, which may one day be mandatory. Alongside this sits planned EU legislation to ban HFC fridges.

Tesco outlined goals like cutting energy use by 50% per square foot, investing £500 million into green renovations and research, £100 million to researching and developing low-carbon technologies and £5 million will be used to launch Tesco’s new Institute for Sustainable Consumption.

Climate Change Corp. seems a bit skeptical about these ambitious plans, especially considering they are happening in the wake of huge Tesco expansions.

To read the entire article and decide for yourself go here. While you are at it, check out Tesco’s corporate responsibility review here!

via climate change corp

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