Bidfood and CarbonCloud join forces

Bidfood has announced a strategic collaboration with CarbonCloud, a pioneer in climate intelligence technology. The new partnership marks the wholesaler's commitment in supply chain carbon management as it aims to calculate its climate footprint across the value chain.

With a strong commitment to sustainability, Bidfood has set robust climate targets to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2045 across all scopes. To achieve these goals, it recognises the importance of data accuracy in measuring and reducing its full carbon footprint, including the scope three category purchased goods and services, which is traditionally the least visible and hardest to measure element of a food businesses carbon footprint.

With state-of-the-art automation, CarbonCloud's innovative platform streamlines this process, providing Bidfood and its suppliers with the opportunity to connect securely and seamlessly for better climate insights. As a first stage, Bidfood will have the initial climate footprint of its product range calculated swiftly in 2024.

“We’re thrilled to embark on this exciting collaboration with CarbonCloud and start collaborating with our suppliers on a single platform,” said Jim Gouldie, supply chain and technical services director for Bidfood. “Data integrity and scalability for our value chain is an important step towards achieving our sustainability objectives.”

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