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As part of an ambitious plan to halve its carbon emissions, British grocery giant Tesco has announced that it has deployed software from CA to automate and manage its efforts. The company says it has implemented CA’s ecoSoftware to help track its carbon emissions and to develop strategies to manage its short and long-term goals.
Tesco noted that with 468,000 employees and more than 4,000 locations in 14 countries, the task of accounting for carbon emission is a time-consuming and complex task. It hopes that the ecoSoftware will increase the efficiency and accuracy of its carbon-accounting processes and speed progress.
“When we announced our plan two years ago to reduce our carbon footprint by 50% across all our global operations, we knew we were taking on a big task,” Mike Yorwerth, IT director of Tesco, said in a statement. “Since that time a number of people across the business have been involved in measuring, documenting and reporting on our emissions – a time consuming, largely manual task.”
Yorwerth also noted that the company is involved in hundreds of projects around the world designed to reduce Tesco’s carbon footprint, all of which need to be prioritized and measured.
CA is not alone in going after the market to offer automated solutions to help companies track and manage their carbon footprints. Earlier this year I reported on efforts by enterprise resource planning giant SAP on this front, noting that it had acquired a company called Clear Standards, a privately-held New York firm which developed software to measure and manage greenhouse gas emissions.
SAP said it would integrate the Clear Standards software into its own offerings, as well as use the application to manage its own environmental efforts.
For its part, Tesco says that using 2006 as a baseline, it plans to halve emissions from existing buildings by 2020; halve distribution emissions of each case of goods delivered by 2012; and halve emissions from new stores by 2020.
Terrence Clark, senior vice president of the ecoSoftware unit at CA, said the software fills an important need for corporations not only from a public relations standpoint, but also from a regulatory position. “Rising energy costs, an increasing demand for energy and the expanding scope of carbon regulations mean that these issues have changed from a minor concern to a corporate imperative,” he said.
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