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bidfood.co.uk/sustainability
Baseline emissions are based on our organisational
boundary, i.e. they include emissions for Bidfood UK and its
subsidiary businesses over which we have financial and/
or operational control, e.g. South Lincs Foodservice, Yarde
Farm, Simply Food Solutions, Caterfood, Cimandis, etc. They
do however exclude Bidfresh, but as a supplier to us they
will be expected to align with our net zero ambitions and
our SBTi-aligned reduction pathway. This means that these
baseline emissions won't match what we reported in our
2019 sustainability report, as the latter were only for Bidfood.
The table below shows the baseline data against which
all our SBTi targets will be set. We have an overall
ambition to achieve net zero emissions by 2045.
Our principles
Our communities Awards
Areas of focus for
emissions reduction.
Scope 1 - how we're progressing
Fleet decarbonisation
We currently run only one electric vehicle; this is
used at our Battersea depot, with further trials of
other vehicles imminent. As it stands, EV technology
hasn't sufficiently evolved for the batteries to be
able to cope with the demands of our operation,
other than where there is a very small radial
distribution area such as central London. For large
HGV fleets, it's currently unclear as to whether the
key to decarbonisation lies in electric or hydrogen
technology, for which we continually monitor
developments. All our vehicle fridges are electric
however, meaning that we generate no additional
emissions from mobile refrigeration units. Whilst
waiting for technological innovation around EVs and
hydrogen, we are running an HVO (hydro-treated
vegetable oil) trial, to see if HVO could be a viable
stepping stone for us on our journey towards
net zero.
Baseline emissions
Where in chain? Scope Source Emissions (t) CO2e % of total
Direct operations Scope 1 Diesel, refrigerants, natural gas 75619 4%
Indirect operations Scope 2 Electricity (market based calcs) 33,233 2%
Upstream
Scope 3
Purchased Goods and Services 1,913,287 92%
Capital Goods 22094 1%
Fuel-and-energy related activity 24,854 1%
Upstream logistics 4,145 0.2%
Waste generated in operations 193 0.0%
Business Travel 328 0.0%
Employee commuting 9,695 0.5%
Downstream
Downstream logistics 20 0.0%
End of life treatment of solid products 8 0.0%
Total emissions 2,083,472 100%
nb. Total doesn't match exactly due to roundings in the calculation process