Impact Measurement and Performance Analysis of CSR (IMPACT)

The future impact of CSR in the food retail sector on climate change

The goals and research questions for the study are as follows:

Primary goals:

-Identification of CSR efforts/measures with climate change aspects from companies in the German food retail sector.

-Calculation of current global warming potential (GWP) impact resulting from the operation of food stores (Status quo).

-Scenario analysis 2020 regarding development of GHG emissions in German food-retail.

-Derivation of recommendations concerning CSR strategies and methodological aspects by calculating corporate GHG emissions.

Specific goals:

-Market structure assessment of German food-retail sector as the most relevant submar-ket of entire retail sector.

-Identification of CSR topics and different CSR communication strategies in German food-retail.

-Literature research of specific energy consumption data of food stores. Derivation of benchmarks for existing distribution channels.

-Energy saving potential of different measures that are already implemented by some companies.

-Collection of contingencies & counterfactuals in order to answer the question how food retail submarket will develop in the next years.

-Implementation status of CSR measures.

-Reporting standards and discussion of methodological aspects as choice of emission factor.

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