Carbon Benchmarking

Client Profile

Established International Cosmetics Retailer

Situation

In the rush to find the best path, retailers have adopted numerous sustainability strategies aimed at reducing and validating their environmental impact. Retailer sought common metrics to enable cohesive, integrated strategies and to benchmark retail store performance for enterprise-wide decision making.

Ecoxera Solution

Ecoxera’s Sustainability Experts identified a carbon-based platform as an appropriate path for the Retailer. Ecoxera implemented a web-based carbon management system and performed a scope 1, 2, and partial scope 3 GHG impact assessment based on international standards. The carbon management system allowed for ease of entry of energy, waste, and water inputs and outputs by facility managers and enabled real-time tracking and comparison of environmental performance across the portfolio, including different regions, store types, pilots, and various programs. The carbon assessment gave a snapshot-in-time of Retailer’s carbon footprint, highlighted the largest impact areas, and recommended reduction strategies.

End Result

- A carbon footprint assessment that verified Retailer’s environmental performance, created a benchmark for measuring future reductions, and highlighted unrealized opportunities for improved performance.
- A real-time, web-based carbon management system that allows for portfolio wide comparison of prototype vs. prototype, store format vs. store format, certified stores vs. traditional stores pilots, region vs. region, urban/inline vs. freestanding, etc.
- A measurement and validation of a Retailer’s environmental performance based on internationally recognized metrics that allow for transparent and compelling green storytelling, enhanced brand equity to shareholders, and credibility in the sustainability space.