Ahold Delhaize starts implementing product carbon footprinting
“Every product on our shelves carries a footprint shaped by many decisions — from farming practices to transport and storage."
Ahold Delhaize is shifting from spend-based Scope 3 emissions estimations to product carbon footprinting to improve the granularity of its climate reporting.
The Dutch supermarket chain explains that 95% of its greenhouse gas footprint sits in Scope 3, and 80% of that is linked to the emissions associated with the products it sells. But as a food retailer providing hundreds of thousands of products sourced from thousands of suppliers and farmers around the world, the company felt a need to understand these impacts more precisely to better manage risk.
