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Dixons Carphone plc Annual Report and Accounts 2015/16
Strategic Report
Corporate Responsibility
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Carbon management and legislation
During phase 2, year 2 of the Carbon Reduction Commitment
(‘CRC’) energy efficiency scheme, Dixons Carphone’s
combined reported emissions have reduced over 15% against
the 2014/15 CRC year which represents a reduction in excess
of 20,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Dixons Carphone merged its reporting against the CRC,
energy efficiency scheme for the 2015/16 CRC year under
Dixons Carphone plc, registration number CRC6030144.
The Dixons Retail plc CRC account, registration number
CRC8584817, was selected for and successfully passed
a compliance audit during 2015/16 prior to closure of
this account.
Carbon Disclosure Project (‘CDP’)
We plan to submit our response to the CDP Climate Change
Information Disclosure questionnaire for 2015/16 by the
30 June 2016 deadline.
EU Directive 2012/27/EU, Article 8 (Energy Efficiency)
This EU Directive was transposed into UK & Irish legislation as
the ‘Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme’ and the ‘Energy
Audit Scheme’ respectively. Dixons Carphone complied with
the requirements of this new legislation in advance of the
December 2015 deadline.
Mandatory Greenhouse Gas (‘GHG’)
reporting
This section provides the emission data and supporting
information required by The Companies Act 2006 (Strategic
Report and Directors’ Report) Regulations 2013, Part 7:
Disclosures Concerning Greenhouse Gas Emissions.
This report covers the international operations of the Group,
including the UK & Ireland, the Nordics and Southern Europe.
Operational control has been used to determine organisational
boundary. All scope one and two emissions are included
except where noted.
2015
/
16 2014/15 2014/15
Category / source of
emissions
Tonnes of
CO2e
emitted(1a)
Increase /
(decrease)
%
Tonnes of
CO2e
emitted(1a)
Tonnes of
CO2e
emitted(1b)
Emissions from
combustion of
fuel(2) 20,614 4.3%
19,760 21,077
Emissions from
operation
of any facility(3) 2,797 (23.6)%
3,661 3,680
Emissions from
purchase
of electricity 109,534 (14.2)%
127,607 130,819
132,945 (12.0)% 151,028 155,576
2015
/
16 2014/15 2014/15
Tonnes
of CO2e
emitted per
1,000 sq ft
of floor
area(2)
Tonnes
of CO2e
emitted per
1,000 sq ft
of floor
area(1a,2,4)
Tonnes
of CO2e
emitted per
1,000 sq ft
of floor
area(1b,2,4)
Dixons Retail intensity
measure 5.76 5.73 5.73
Carphone Warehouse
intensity measure 13.75 17.41 17.70
Dixons Carphone intensity
measure 6.36 – –
(1a) Exclusions comprise: franchises as they do not fall directly under
the Group’s operational control; emissions from Carphone
Warehouse’s divested retail operations in Germany and the
Netherlands. The divested operations have been excluded from
2015/16 GHG reporting numbers and a restated number (with the
same exclusions) has been provided for 2014/15 for comparison
on a like-for-like basis.
(1b) Tonnes of CO2e emitted as reported in last year’s (2014/15) report,
including Germany and the Netherlands.
(2) Overall floor area of the Dixons Carphone business is estimated to
be 20,889,357 sq ft. This is split between the Dixons Retail
business which is estimated to be 19,304,134 sq ft (20,659,929 sq
ft restated for 2014/15) and the overall floor area of the Carphone
Warehouse business is estimated to be 1,585,223 sq ft (2,106,753
sq ft estimated for 2014/15). The calculations use the
methodology set out in Defra’s updated greenhouse gas reporting
guidance, Environmental Reporting Guidelines (ref. PB 13944),
issued in June 2013.
(3) Refrigerant data from the Wednesbury Carphone Warehouse site
was not included as the data was not available (although this is
estimated to be less than 1% of total emissions for the Group).
(4) The overall floor area of the Dixons Retail and the Carphone
Warehouse businesses as reported in 2014/15 was found to be in
error owing to issues in data collection and data reliability. These
issues have been addressed and the intensity figures for 2014/15
have been restated using the corrected floor area.
Ethical sourcing
Many of our electrical products are sourced through major
international brands, which have their own strong ethical and
environmental policies in place. The Group operates its own
Ethical Sourcing Policy based on the Social Accountability
8000 and the FTSE4Good criteria and takes into account the
recent introduction of the Modern Slavery Act. We work
closely with organisations such as the Supplier Ethical Data
Exchange (‘Sedex’) and the British Retail Consortium to ensure
our policies and procedures remain relevant.
We have our own social and ethical auditing team and audit
suppliers of our own brand products, prior to selection, against
strict trading terms and operating procedures. Included within
these terms are minimum standards in respect of health and
safety, wages, working hours, equal opportunities, freedom of
association, collective bargaining and disciplinary procedures.
It is also against our terms of operation to employ any forced
or child labour. Once the audits are complete, suppliers are
rated on a traffic light basis. Green status on an audit indicates
that a supplier meets or exceeds all of our standards. Amber
status indicates that some of the standards required have not
been fully met. Red status means that some significant failures
were identified against our Ethical Sourcing Policy standards.
Suppliers are approved if they reach either green or amber
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