Fighting climate change through food and drink: hospitality and brewing industries unite to cut carbon by launching new Carbon Calculator and Toolkit
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22 April 2022, World Earth Day: Following the publication in November last year of the industry’s roadmap to net zero, the Zero Carbon Forum today launched the Hospitality & Brewing Carbon Calculator and Toolkit (see links reference below) developed in collaboration with UKHospitality, BBPA, and powered by Sky.
The toolkit enables hospitality operators and brewers to calculate their carbon footprint and identify achievable key actions to reduce emissions. To support the accuracy of footprint calculations and easy-to-use actions, operators can choose from the groupings of pubs, hotels, restaurants, QSR, brewers, contract catering, nightclubs and visitor attractions.
Forum CEO and Founder, Mark Chapman said: “We want to support operators to quickly identify the actions they can take to help solve the climate crises,” says, “Accurately measuring and understanding your current carbon footprint is critical to starting a meaningful plan to cut carbon and costs. Our new calculator and toolkit shows operators how to take action on reducing emissions in their own business and supply chain rather than offsetting. It is based on the roadmap findings, learnings of all forum members and input from our carbon experts.”
Kate Nicholls, CEO of UKHospitality said: “As a sector, we are fully committed to decarbonisation and are delighted to have played our part in developing the calculator and toolkit. We will be promoting this to our membership and the wider industry, so that businesses are supported to make positive changes to the way they operate. Hospitality is at the forefront of the race to net zero.”
Emma McClarkin, CEO of BBPA said: “Britain’s brewing and pub sector are amongst the oldest and most revered around the world. We are committed to maintaining this reputation and it is now more important than ever for us to brew world class beer and operate in an innovative and sustainable way. We are excited to support this calculator and toolkit which will help our breweries and pubs deliver our carbon zero future as part of the wider, green recovery.”
Damian Saunders, Managing Director of Sky Business said: “At Sky, we’re going net zero carbon by 2030, because the world can’t wait. To get there, we believe that is the responsibility of all of us to make a commitment, which is why we’re delighted to have supported the development of the Hospitality & Brewing Carbon Calculator and Toolkit to help the hospitality sector get to net zero together at pace and help our customers kickstart their journey to #GoZero too”.
Production and consumption of food accounts for around 35% of total UK emissions, so the sector has recognised its responsibility to act and to make the fastest possible impact. This includes exacting change in supply chains, too. The carbon calculator and toolkit enables operators of all sizes across the industry to be part of the movement to net zero together at pace.
The toolkit and calculator can be accessed for brewers and pubs through the BBPA and through UKH for pubs, hotels, restaurants, QSR, nightclubs, contract catering and visitor attractions. It will also be available on Sky’s customer portal, MySkySports.com.
Zero Carbon Forum members will also promote the toolkit and calculator to their franchisees and tenants.
Links to access the Hospitality & Brewing Carbon Calculator and Toolkit:
https://www.ukhospitality.org.uk/page/UKHCarboncalculator
https://brewinggreen.org/net-zero-toolkit-calculator
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Editors notes
The development of the brewing carbon calculator was supported by The Worshipful Company of Brewers via a grant from the Brewers’ Research & Education Fund.
For more details on Forum membership, benefits, or to use the calculator, visit
ZeroCarbonForum.com.
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About the Zero Carbon Forum
The Zero Carbon Forum, is a non-profit organisation which builds on 10 years of carbon reduction collaboration in the UK’s hospitality and Brewing sector. It enables members to reach their decarbonisation targets faster, more efficiently and more cost effectively than acting alone.
The Zero Carbon Forum published its publicly available roadmap to achieve net zero carbon ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in November 2021.
Members pledge to work collaboratively, by sharing carbon reduction plans and initiatives. By combining expertise and resources the forum helps to identify all possible actions to decarbonise operations across tens of thousands of outlets and their supply chains.
The Zero Carbon Forum is endorsed by government and backed by trade associations UK Hospitality and the British Beer and Pub Association. Members include leading UK and global hospitality organisations, including Adnams, Azzurri Group, Boparan Restaurants, Brewdog, Burger King UK, Côte Restaurant Group, Fuller’s, Greene King, Honest Burgers, InterContinental Hotels (IHG) Hotels & Resorts, JD Wetherspoon, KFC, Marston's PLC, McMullen’s Brewery, Mitchells & Butlers PLC (MAB), Nando's UK and IRE, Pizza Express, Pizza Hut Restaurants UK, Revolution Bars, Shepherd-Neame Ltd, St. Austell, Stonegate, The Restaurant Group (including Wagamama), Wadworth Brewery, WSH, and Young & Co. Brewery, PLC.
About UKHospitality
UKHospitality is the authoritative voice for over 730 companies operating around 85,000 venues in a sector that employed 3.2 million people prior to COVID. The body speaks on behalf of a wide range of leisure and ‘out-of-home’ businesses, from FTSE 100 enterprises to niche groups and independent single-site operators, as well as 6,000 affiliated operators from all aspects of hospitality: coffee shops, hotels, serviced apartments, pubs, restaurants, leisure parks, nightclubs, contract caterers, entertainment, wedding venues, holiday homes, bowling alleys and visitor attractions
Prior to COVID, the sector created £130bn in economic activity per year, generating £39bn of tax for the Exchequer, funding vital services. It represented 10% of UK employment, 6% of businesses and 5% of GDP, and was the 3rd largest private sector employer in the UK; double the size of financial services and bigger than automotive, pharmaceuticals and aerospace combined. Read more about UKH’s sustainability work here.
About BBPA
The BBPA champion issues that matter to the beer and pub industry. These are causes our members are passionate about; whether it’s promoting beer as the nation’s drink, or campaigning against increases to beer duty and businesses rates that are so damaging to community pubs. Our members are responsible for 90% of the beer brewed in Britain today and we represent around 20,000 of the country’s pubs. They include international companies, family brewers, managed locals and the nation’s largest tenanted pub estates. We are passionate about representing, supporting and campaigning for the wellbeing of the beer and pub sector. Read more here
About Sky
Sky is the leading provider of entertainment and communication services which is built on over 30 years of market transformation and innovation.
Sky Business is the business-to-business division of Sky, providing a wide variety of commercial premises across the UK and ROI, by connecting and entertaining millions of people every day – from unmissable live sport, unrivalled entertainment and breaking news, to the best drama and comedy, documentaries and films.
