Carbon has become a performance metric
Jonathan estimates that the automation in Emitwise cuts the time it normally takes him to submit to the CDP by 50%.
“Compared to the last time I manually worked on Thomas Food’s application to the CDP, using Emitwise has helped me do it in half the time,” he says. “Obviously that’s significant ROI in terms of my labour and productivity.”
Jonathan is now using Emitwise to align with Walmart’s Project Gigaton, where they must set emission reduction targets and report on them over time:
“Project Gigaton requires a lot of information internally from Thomas Foods, which has been fairly easy to gather, but also external information from our suppliers, which is more challenging. Being able to centralise all this fragmented data in one platform has been really helpful for the company’s oversight.”
Now that Jonathan has aggregated this data and visualised it in the Emitwise platform, Thomas Foods is taking action to tackle carbon hotspots.
“We’re taking this emissions data and turning it into performance metrics that we can target,” he explains. “Whether it’s energy efficiency or waste reduction, the fact that we can see where those hotspots are allows us to develop strategies with the appropriate individuals to improve those metrics.”