Tesco is strengthening its global focus on sustainability, energy and carbon data management in a new contract with Capgemini. The contract uses Capgemini’s global business process outsourcing (BPO) business unit to help Tesco with its programme to reduce its carbon footprint worldwide.

Tesco aims to be zero carbon by 2050, creating a challenging task of accurately measuring and managing energy usage and carbon emissions worldwide. It chose Capgemini to provide a specialist managed service for energy and carbon data management to support its in-house sustainability team.

Capgemini will be responsible for the collection, processing and reporting of energy and carbon emissions data from Tesco operations worldwide. However Tesco will retain control of the overall process.

Ben Day, climate change manager of Tesco, says: "We chose Capgemini because it was able to provide us with a proven, ready-to-run solution. We were attracted by its ability to provide the required support, its understanding of energy and carbon data management issues and its specialist skills with the CA Technologies ecoGovernance sustainability tool set. We expect to see an immediate improvement in the efficiency and capacity of our carbon footprint measurement and reporting process."

By outsourcing regular sustainability data management to Capgemini, Tesco's own sustainability teams expect to have greater freedom to focus on strategic issues.

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