Climate Reporting

From our transport fleet to the manufacturing of products in our global supply chains, our business operations create greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. 

As a responsible retailer we must reduce our emissions and energy consumption wherever we can. We must be even more ambitious by looking at our impact across our entire value chain and taking action. In 2023 we set science-based targets to reduce emissions both in our own business and our global supply chains.

We measure emissions across the areas outlined below. This data enables us to highlight where we can have the greatest impact by putting a strategy and targets in place to reduce emissions. Our next annual reporting will update these KPIs, targets and baselines to align to our science-based targets.

The Partnership Carbon Emissions and Energy Consumption
 

^{1 Figures presented are for approximate calendar year, exact dates are aligned to our trading periods}

^{2 Scope 1: Emissions associated with our direct activities, such as heating our shops and offices and running our fleet of trucks, our agricultural emissions and company cars. These do not include our out of scope biomethane emissions, these are the carbon dioxide GHG emissions related to the use of biomethane within our distribution vehicles. The total for the 2022 calendar year is 36,605tCO2e.}

^{3 Scope 2: Emissions from the electricity we purchase. ‘Location-based’ represents the GHG intensity of the grids where we have sites and ‘Market-based’ reflects the emissions for the electricity we have purchased.}

^{4 Scope 3: Emissions from our indirect activities under our operational control or operations influences e.g business travel not in company owned cars. The categories presented in the table are a subset of, rather than our entire, scope 3 footprint.}

^{5 In February 2020, the Partnership created a new sales measure known as Total Trading Sales. The Partnership restated this measure from 2019 onwards and so it’s not available to calculate the intensity metrics for 2018. Therefore, the table does not include 2018 location-based and market-based intensity metrics.}

^{* This year, KPMG LLP has issued limited assurance opinion over the selected data highlighted in this table with an asterisk (*) using the assurance standards ISAE (UK) 3000 and ISAE 3410. The assurance report and exact KPIs assured can be found on https://www.johnlewispartnership.co.uk/csr/reporting/ reports-policies-standards.html}

The Partnership fully supports the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and its recommendations and is committed to assessing the impacts of climate risks and opportunities across our operations, physical estate and supply chains. 

Our 2022/23 TCFD disclosure (PG 24-31) provides the Partnership’s progress update across each of the TCFD pillars; Governance, Risk Management, Strategy and Metrics and Targets.