Aldi’s biggest emission source is transport at c. 64% and therefore represents the biggest opportunity for reductions.  The business found that the solution to this, after assessments and research, was to use alternative fuels with less carbon emissions. This approach could deliver a reduction in emissions but would also be feasible for HGVs and operations.

Aldi South Group has pledged to reduce absolute operational greenhouse gas emissions by 26% by the end of 2025 (against a 2016 baseline). To achieve this, Aldi has committed to transitioning its HGV fleet from diesel to alternative fuels which will achieve an 80-90% emissions reduction. Aldi’s target is to have more than 200 HGVs running on Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) and Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) by the end of 2025.

A 15-year fuel strategy has since been developed by Aldi’s Warehouse Operations and Sustainability Teams to determine how best to move to alternative fuels, with HVO and CNG as an interim solution until a zero-carbon solution viable for HGVs is developed.

To help achieve this, the business is also transitioning to an all-electric company car fleet to reduce emissions with c. 25% of company cars now electric or hybrid. Since implementing the 15-year strategy, the distance travelled by Aldi’s regional company car fleet decreased by 2.9% while emissions fell 18.2%. Aldi GB has also started to phase out diesel vehicles, replacing with Battery Electric Vehicles (BEV), which now account for 27.1% of the regional company car fleet.

Aldi is committed to reducing its transport and fuel emissions and is continually seeking innovative ways to achieve this.

Dunelm are the UK’s leading homewares retailer with a growing presence in the furniture market, with over 175 stores in the UK. ‘Sustainable in everything we do’ is one of our foundations and highlights the importance we place on building sustainability into every aspect of our business. We are committed to products, services and experiences that are: better for the planet, better for the home and better for people.

The Problem: Dunelm have set near term targets to reduce emissions from Scope 1,2 and 3 by 50% by 2030, against a 2019 baseline. In FY22, our Home Delivery Network (HDN) fleet made up 54% of our Scope 1 carbon footprint. We already have plans to decarbonise the other areas of scope 1, such as heating (switching to renewable electricity), and company car fleet (switching to electric options only). HDN is the area within our own operations with the largest emissions but the hardest to decarbonise, yet we need to decarbonise this area to meet our near-term targets, and ultimately net zero.

Our Actions and Outcome: We initially trialled three LNG tractor units. Although this was successful, we made the decision to use BIO-CNG vehicles. Starting with nine 44t tractor units, as this produced 40% of the emissions within the whole fleet, which we reduced by around 85% by switching to BIO-CNG. We now intend on switching out the rest of our fleet (7.5t and 3.5t vans) to CNG in the short term. In the long-term we intend to use electric or hydrogen vehicles to meet our net zero targets, as such we are currently trailing an electric tractor unit HGV for operational and charging feasibility.

The INGKA value chains climate footprint is estimated to be 0.04% of the worlds GHG emissions. This gives all INGKA companies – responsibility – but also opportunity – to make a positive difference on climate change.

We know our colleagues and customers want us to take decisive action. IKEA UK has the ambition to reduce actual GHG emissions from our operations by 80% from Fiscal Year 2016 by 2030.

Our organisation has committed to the EV100 initiative, 100% of the last delivery being undertaken by electric vehicles by 2025. The journey to Net Zero emissions deliveries started in 2020 prioritising the transition of the delivery fleet to EV. IKEA works with a range of 3rd party transport service providers, with whom the transformation to EV has been agreed. Key challenges remain around the lack of charging infrastructure.

A project team was established in the UK that also connected into the global INGKA group.

Under the commitments of the John Lewis Partnership to be a net zero carbon operation by 2035, the Waitrose Ltd division has a Central Transport commitment to be zero fossil fuel fleet by 2030. To support this goal the transport team have been installing shore power at our distribution centres. In Autumn 2022 Waitrose completed the electrification of docks at it’s Bracknell distribution centre (100 shore power sockets) in support of this decarbonisation programme. The docks now allow our refrigerated trailers to be connected electrically rather than running on diesel. This results in reduced carbon emission, yard noise, heat and dirt, this improved Partner working condition is evident particularly during the summer months since we no longer have diesel engines running producing incremental heat and pollution in our yards. The successful business benefit at Bracknell has reduced diesel fuel use producing a cost saving of £30k and 64tCO2e per month on average. The project overall supports the Partnership purpose which is for Happy People, Happy Business and Happy World.