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Carrefour Quality Lines
throughout the world
Biodiversity
challenges
Climate change and resource depletion
have a serious impact on biodiversity,
whose preservation is a major issue for the
world’s future. Carrefour plays an active role
in initiatives to reduce the environmental
footprint of its activities.
Inevery country, Carrefour employs concrete actions topromote responsible
supply sources that protect ecosystemsandcontribute to thepreservation
ofnaturalresources.
Promoting agroecology
Through its offer of Carrefour Quality Lines and fair-trade and organic
products,Carrefourencouragesthedevelopmentofagroecology.TheGroup
places particular emphasis on a collaborative approach that involves
Carrefour Quality Lines in order to assist more than 21,000 partner
producers in putting to use innovative practices that contribute directly
to biodiversity preservation: crop rotation to halt soil depletion, shunning
post-harvest chemical treatment of fruit and vegetables, refusing to use
hydroponic food production and sewage sludge as fertiliser, and so on.
For animal product lines (pork, chicken, eggs, salmon), herbal medicine is
preferred over antibiotics, and producers must be extremely mindful of
theanimals’well-being.
Zero deforestation goal
Forests function as exceptional CO2 collectors and are the effective
guardians of biodiversity. Carrefour has been gradually building a supply
approach that implements initiatives in all sectors that make direct or
indirect use of forest resources. In its offer, Carrefour promotes products
thatareFSCandPEFCcertifiedandpackagingmadeofrecycledfibres.Thus,
as part of its membership in the Consumer Goods Forum, the Group
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