A Greenpeace study is prompting the body to call for more focus on major companies looking to transition to electric trucks
Greenpeace says supermarket customers are calling on major companies including supermarkets like Woolworths and Aldi to transition to electric transport fleets and away from polluting fossil fuels.
A recent survey of more than 500 customers by Greenpeace Australia Pacific has found that 98 per cent of respondents wanted to see major companies switching to electric trucks, while 88 per cent would be more likely to shop with a company that did make this switch.
In addition, 52 per cent had heard that companies like Woolworths and Westpac were switching to electric trucks or cars, while 59 per cent had heard about corporate 100 per cent renewable electricity commitments.
“Major companies have a vital role to play in reducing the climate, health and economic costs of Australia’s rising transport pollution,” Greenpeace Australia Pacific campaigner Violette Snow says.
“But in an era of ‘global boiling’, most retailers, including Coles, Aldi and Bunnings, are simply not moving fast enough to curb their planet-warming transport emissions.
“Community members in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra and Adelaide recently teamed up with Greenpeace Australia Pacific to survey customers at local Bunnings, Coles and Aldi stores about the retailer’s climate ambitions.
Snow says customers want to see retailers step up their climate commitments, and the time to act was yesterday.
“Greenpeace Australia Pacific continues to urge major companies to step up their climate action by committing to switch their cars and trucks to electric, powered by homegrown wind and solar,” Snow says.