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to reduce our impact was regarding the use of natural resources . We decided that we want to continually increase resource efficiency , to minimise the use of non-renewable resources , reduce total resource consumption and avoid creating waste ,” Glanzmann comments .
“ We ’ re therefore setting goals to take action to reduce energy and water use , and emissions in this area . In the meantime , we realised that our main environmental footprint is not at Migros itself . In many cases it lies in the production of our products – they are much more relevant in terms of energy use or water use than the stores . I think a core point of the strategy is that we look at the whole value chain of products and see then where the biggest impacts are in terms of energy or water use or emissions .”
The setting of strategic goals is key to the plans at Migros for measuring energy consumption – they give the company something to work towards . “ In the end , strategies are one thing , the other is having concrete measures to really reduce it and we have a goal ,” continues Marcus Dredge , Head of Energy Efficiency and Climate Change .
“ There ’ s a lot of detailed work going in there because in the end , the reduction on the energy consumption and climate gas emissions is done within all different little pieces at each individual plant . Of course , it ’ s also in the retail stores and we try to do the same thing there and emphasise energy efficiency as much as possible .”
“ In the end , strategies are one thing , the other is having concrete measures to really reduce it and we have a goal ”
MARCUS DREDGE Head of Energy Efficiency and Climate Chage