B&Q’s 2024 accountable enterprise report, its first Construct A Life Undertaking Annual Report, reveals the corporate has decreased its Scope 1 & 2 carbon emissions by 63.5% in below a decade (since 2016/17) and, in the identical interval, seen a 56% discount within the depth of its Scope 3 carbon emissions (per million £ turnover) from its provide chain and in merchandise utilized by clients.
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- B&Q has revealed its first Construct a Life Undertaking Annual Report, highlighting the initiatives it’s taking and the progress being made to enhance its impression and achievements for the Planet and Folks.
- Throughout 2023/24, B&Q decreased absolute greenhouse fuel emissions from their operations – Scope 1 and a pair of emissions – by 63.5%, exceeding their 2025/26 discount goal of 37.8%
- Scope 3 emissions account for round 98% of B&Qs complete carbon emissions. In 2023/24, by providing merchandise with improved vitality effectivity to assist decarbonise houses, collaborating with suppliers to assist sort out manufacturing emissions, and through the use of fewer and completely different manufacturing and packaging supplies, B&Q decreasing the depth of its Scope 3 emissions.
- In 2023/24, B&Qs group programmes helped greater than 718,000 individuals they usually donated greater than £3 million to the B&Q Basis and nationwide associate, Shelter. Since its launch in 2020 the B&Q Basis has given grants totalling £5.5m to over 1075 initiatives, and in 2023/24 B&Q colleagues volunteered over 33,000 hours to help 302 initiatives.
- In February 2024, B&Q launched ‘Our stance on discrimination’, making it clear that B&Q doesn’t tolerate abuse or discrimination of any form by anybody – colleagues, clients, contractors or enterprise companions. Everyone seems to be welcome at B&Q.
- The enterprise additionally enhanced a lot of HR insurance policies, corresponding to for IVF/fertility paid go away, two-weeks paid go away for Reservist and Cadet forces volunteers, and led the best way as the primary main excessive road retailer to develop into a Gold customary Kinship Pleasant Employer.
- B&Q has a long-standing heritage of serving to make sustainable decisions simpler for purchasers, decreasing its operational impression on the setting, and serving to communities.
- Because the Construct A Life Undertaking’s inception in June 2023, the Accountable Enterprise crew has grown in power with the appointment of Joanna Gluzman-Laukkenen as Director.
Joanna Gluzman-Laukkenen, B&Q’s director of accountable enterprise, commented: “I’m excited to have joined B&Q for the chance to assist progress supply of B&Q’s internet zero targets and to assist thousands and thousands of individuals make extra sustainable decisions for his or her houses and to boost B&Q’s optimistic contribution to individuals and planet. There’s all the time rather a lot that we should do for legislative and different causes. Nevertheless, we even have decisions to make about what we wish to do above and past that. We’re at the moment figuring out environmental and social alternatives and dangers in order that we will prioritise our focus for the approaching years, and we’re creating an built-in roadmap to present us a extra holistic view of our Planet and Folks initiatives. There’s tons to do and it’s good to see the progress made this 12 months.”
B&Qs Key Accountable Enterprise Targets and Measures, 2023/24