April 18, 2011
Walmart Behind on Carbon Goal
Walmart is slightly behind on its carbon reduction goal, according to its 2011 Global Responsibility Report.
The two million-employee company is targeting a 20 percent cut in emissions from stores, clubs and distribution centers by 2012, from a 2005 baseline. (The metric counts only those locations that existed in 2005.) By the end of 2009 – the most recent year for which it has such data – Walmart had reduced its GHG emissions by 10.6 percent.
Meanwhile the company’s overall CO2 emissions, including stores constructed since 2005, have increased….
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