Decarbonizing strategies of the retail sector following the Paris Agreement

Ana Ferreira, Manuel Duarte Pinheiro, Jorge de Brito and Ricardo Mateus

Energy Policy, 2019, vol. 135, issue C

Abstract: The retail industry is one of the top 10 most carbon-intensive sectors. This paper is original in addressing what has changed in corporate retail with the Paris Agreement, accessing trends to decarbonize the sector. A qualitative comparison was performed regarding the policy, strategy and energy-related building solutions of the top 27 global retailers, ranked according to their revenue, regarding the reporting periods of 2014–2015 and 2016–2017. For each retailer, data were searched on retailers’ sustainability reports was organized in different tables according to the variables policy, strategy and energy-related building practice. A comparison analysis was carried out, in order to identify differentiating decarbonizing measures.

Keywords: Retail; Corporate social responsibility; Energy-related building solutions; Sustainability; Paris Agreement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2019.110999

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