Retail giant Walmart announced today that it has achieved its goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 1 billion metric tons across its product supply chain, hitting the milestoIn a post highlighting the achievement, Walmart Chief Sustainability Officer, and President of the Walmart Foundation, Kathleen McLaughlin, said that the company is working to improve and expand Project Gigaton, with targeted actions including enhancing its estimates of its Scope 3 footprint, assessing which elements of its value chain emissions are addressable, and which are out of its control, and identifying emissions reductions that can be achieved through low-cost interventions, as well as those that are expensive or not feasible with current technology.ne accomplishment 6 years ahead of its 2030 target.
The target was initially set by Walmart in 2017, at the launch of the company’s Project, its initiative to engage suppliers, as well as other stakeholders, in climate action to reduce or avoid a gigaton of GHG emissions from Walmart’s global value chain by 2030. Walmart reported that to date, more than 5,900 suppliers have signed on to the initiative.
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