Zero Carbon Forum has launched a corporate carbon calculator and toolkit for brewing and hospitality organisations with large estates, chains, and franchises.
Already rolled out by Greene King Pub Partners, the leased, tenanted and franchise business unit of Greene King, to help its pub operators become more sustainable, the new tool will help large operators with multiple sites to understand and calculate their carbon footprint.
An evolution of the forum’s original carbon calculator, it will identify key actions and practical ways to reduce emissions, while improving profitability and business resilience.
The new version has been developed using the forum’s current model, launched in 2022 in collaboration with the British Beer and Pub Association, the British Institute of Innkeeping, UKHospitality, and Sky.
Developed from Zero Carbon Forum’s net zero roadmap findings, learnings from all forum members and insight from carbon experts, the original carbon calculator has been implemented by more than 500 independent pubs, hotels, and restaurants, completing carbon footprints for 5,976 sites, and totalling 1.7m tonnes of measured CO2.
The new version provides three additional features, designed specifically for larger operators to have clear visibility of their supply chain carbon data in Scope 2 for franchisees and Scope 3 for tenants and lessees. Scope 3, which involves reducing emissions within the food and drink supply chain, contains the largest proportion of CO2 emissions, posing the biggest challenge for the industry.
Using the calculator, operators can now review and measure the carbon data of their supply chain, both site by site and as an aggregate. Operators can instantly see which sites are actively using the calculator across their estate, identify any areas that still need to implement the tool, and highlight carbon reduction milestones for operators.
Users on site will receive a personalised toolkit with targeted actions to reduce emissions that align with the corporate sustainability plans of their business.
