'Radical collaboration': How the UK retail industry plans to tackle stubbornly high supply chain emissions

Michael Holder
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The British Retail Consortium - which counts some 200 brands from Aldi and IKEA to McDonald's and eBay UK as members - has published its first temperature check on the sector's progress towards its net zero goals

Britain's biggest retailers are being urged to engage in "radical collaboration" to drive the critical next phase of their climate efforts, after fresh data revealed the sector has largely failed to make...

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