Major retailers launch new grocery sector carbon reporting standard

Stuart Stone
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Tesco, M&S, Starbucks, Nando's, and WWF among founders of new industry standard and platform that aims to monitor and promote product carbon footprints

A coalition of the UK's leading food companies has teamed up with a group of green NGOs to launch a new unified standard for product carbon footprinting across the grocery industry. The coalition has...

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