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Tesco has fared pretty well in being a good corporate citizen. This conclusion is further consolidated from the report 'forum for the future - action for a sustainable world.' The following extract is taken from the above mentioned report - by Peter Madden, the chief executive.

Tesco has had a number of notable achievements over the past 12 months. We are very encouraged to see Tesco reduce the amount of in-store waste going to landfill by one-third in the space of a year. We welcome Tesco's redefining of what constitutes 'local' and its growing support for local products. The commitment to roll out the blueprint from its Cheetham Hill eco-store across all its other new stores is commendable and we urge Tesco to also retrofit all its existing stores. We are also pleased to see Tesco step up its efforts to educate consumers on the carbon footprints of what they buy. And we support the idea of 'Regeneration Partnerships', offering training and employment for the long-term unemployed.

There is still, however, a lot further to go. We would urge Tesco to use its influence to take a bolder position on issues such as healthy eating. Tesco should be leading the industry on radically reducing salt and sugar in foods. We would encourage Tesco to further improve the nutritional content and sustainability profile of its Value range so that it offers healthy, affordable food to the mainstream. We would also like to see consensus between the major supermarkets on universal nutritional labelling.

On climate change, customers driving to its stores generate a major proportion of Tesco's indirect carbon footprint. We would therefore urge Tesco to provide its customers with low-carbon access to its products and services, and to incorporate this into its eco-store blueprint. We would encourage Tesco to accelerate its carbon labelling roll-out, because the process of understanding the carbon footprint of a product can be a very valuable step in helping to drive emissions out of the supply chain. Tesco should also start to apply relevant lessons it has learned on tackling climate change to tackling embedded water.

If Tesco is to truly 'lead by example' on climate change, it must reduce its own absolute carbon emissions year-on-year. The next big challenge for Tesco is to address how it can grow whilst respecting environmental limits. Humankind is already placing intolerable stress on the planet's resources and its ability to deal with our emissions. As Tesco continues to expand its business, it must simultaneously reduce its environmental impact. It has already shown that it can deliver radical environmental improvements in specific areas. Next it needs to look at the whole picture. To do this, it will have to ask some big questions about what a truly sustainable supermarket looks like, develop some new business models and set - and then achieve - some ambitious global sustainability targets.'

9.0 CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY AND FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE

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