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42 2014 Registration Document
Social responsibility
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Action plans
2014
2013
2012
% vs. 12
CO
2
emissions per shipping unit
(kg CO
2
/pallet)
6.4
6.9
6.9
(6.4)%
Like-for-like BUs (scope: 85% of 2014 consolidated sales, excl. VAT) - excluding: HM & SM: BR.
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Improve the performance of vehicle fleets
for transporting merchandise as well as service
vehicles and company cars
In France, Carrefour signed the “CO
2
Objective Charter” (covering its
own fleet) with the ADEME in 2012, and it encourages its carriers to
make the same commitments. In 2014, 383 carrier groups, who handle
70% of the Group’s shipping, have already signed it. Through this charter,
carriers make a three-year commitment to an action plan that involves
improving vehicles’ aerodynamics, choosing a highly energy-efficient
system for refrigerated vehicles, improving consumption monitoring,
setting up eco-friendly driving courses for drivers, and raising awareness
among carriers.
For the 2011-2014 period, CO
2
emissions for flows delivered by the
Group’s own vehicles were reduced by more than 15%. Carrefour has
renewed its commitment to the ADEME for a further three years. Its goal
is to reduce the GHG emissions of its own-vehicle fleets in France by
12% over three years in comparison with 2014 level.
The commitment to offer incentives to transportation service providers
was also renewed, with the aim of identifying areas for cooperation on
sustainable progress, such as new clean transportation technologies,
driver working conditions and information systems. A group called
the “Cercle des Transporteurs” was created to provide a forum for
Carrefour France and public carriers in order to promote collaboration
on transportation techniques and organisation.
In all its countries, Carrefour strives to improve its fleet with cleaner,
quieter lorries. In the most advanced countries, for example:
■
in Belgium, since 2012, 100% of lorries have been Euro 5-compliant;
■
in France, 98.5% of all distance in 2014 was travelled by a dedicated
fleet that is Euro 4 and 5 compliant (compared to 97% at the end
of 2013).
The fleet is renewed regularly. Carrefour France favours vehicles that run
on biomethane fuel generated by recovering the organic waste from its
stores, and has six such vehicles in its fleet.
The fleet of service vehicles and company cars in France has nearly
2,500 vehicles. These are replaced constantly, helping the Group reduce
its environmental footprint every year. In 2014, for example, average CO
2
emissions dropped by more than 14% compared to 2013. Carrefour
France operates an incentive policy to promote the use of hybrid vehicles,
and has chosen to have a fleet made up exclusively of French vehicles
by the 4
th
quarter of 2014.
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Preventing sound pollution
Carrefour store activities generate little to no major noise disturbances.
Generators or compressors that cannot be installed underground are
covered with anti-noise equipment or placed behind insulating walls. Any
obsolescent equipment that produces noise is replaced. In all countries,
maintenance teams ensure respect for noise regulations.
However, the transportation of goods may generate noise, particularly for
local residents during delivery periods. In 2014, Carrefour continued its
policy to reduce noise in France, with the aim of developing the Certibruit
certification for stores located in dense urban areas. One Carrefour
Market store has already been certified in Lyon.
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Warehouse and store deliveries: continuing efforts
toward multimodal solutions
In terms of alternative transport – waterway, rail and multimodal solutions
combining rail/road or barge/road – Carrefour continued its efforts in
the countries where the infrastructure exists.
In France, for upstream shipping - from suppliers to warehouses -
multimodal delivery routes have been developed:
■
2,500 containers were shipped by river, representing 27% of imported
products and nearly 500,000 fewer kilometres by road;
■
3,150 containers were shipped by rail, representing 1.7 million fewer
kilometres by road.
Combined road/rail solutions are also being used for downstream shipping
(from warehouses to stores). 2.7 million kilometres were saved in this
way in 2014.
Pooling shipping resources between upstream and downstream, as well
as with consolidation centres, helps reduce the number of kilometres
travelled empty. After making a delivery to a store, the same lorry goes
to a nearby supplier to reload with merchandise to ship back to the
warehouse. By reusing the downstream transport for upstream shipping,
one lorry is saved with each run.
In Belgium, Brazil, Spain and Italy, Carrefour favours waterway or rail
transport or cabotage (waterway/sea).
2014 KEY FIGURES FOR SHIPPING
IN FRANCE
210
million road kilometres travelled for store deliveries,
i.e.
6% fewer than in 2013
109.9g
of CO
2
per package shipped,
i.e.
13% less than
in 2013
9,454
tonnes of CO
2
avoided thanks to alternative
transport and optimisation,
i.e.
13 million km of road
not travelled