It met for the first time in March and will meet twice a year over the next four years.
Other members are:
• David Nussbaum, CEO, WWF UK; • David McCullough, Trading Director; Oxfam GB; • Martha Lane Fox, Non-Executive Director, M&S; • Aron Cramer, President and CEO, Business for Social Responsibility; • Danny Truell, CIO, Wellcome Trust; • Ritu Kumar, CEO, TERI-Europe; • Rebecca Henderson, Prof of Environment Management, Harvard Business School; • Peggy Liu, Chair of Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy; • Gavin Neath, SVP Communications and Sustainability, Unilever.
Other report highlights
• Last year M&S collected three million unwanted garments through the Oxfam Clothes Exchange, raising around £3.3 million for Oxfam; • Last year over £10 million was invested by the Plan A Innovation Fund into projects that support early stage R&D into green products and services; • Reduced carbon emissions by 13% (25% on like-for-like basis) since 2007; • Fuel efficiency on delivery fleets has improved by 20% (clothing, home and gifts) and 22% (food) since 2007; • 28 stores now use more environmentally friendly CO2 refrigeration systems and 355 stores now use a R407a refrigeration gas which has 50% less impact than conventional systems; • The sourcing of renewable energy from small-scale hydro, wind and anaerobic digestion generators increased to over 50 gWhs, equivalent to 5% of M&S' total electricity usage; • Last year operational waste was reduced by over a third compared to 08/09 figures and 94% of the remaining waste was recycled, including all unsold food; • 39% of food waste went to Anaerobic Digestion to generate energy; • 10 million Christmas Cards (up from eight million last year) were collected in stores for recycling in association with the Woodland Trust; • Hit 2012 target to reduce packaging by over 25% a year early (excluding glass); • 90% of the wild fish we sell now meets our sustainability standards; • Launched 35 products made with certified sustainable palm oil and purchased Green Palm certificates to cover entire palm oil usage across M&S products in food and beauty; • Banned a further 20 pesticides including paraquet; • Increased the amount of recycled polyester used to 1,900 tonnes (equivalent to 47 million two-litre plastic bottles); • Introduced calorie labelling in all store cafes.
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