Tesco's 2026 Sustainability Report, published this month, includes Mondra and the work of the BRC Mondra Coalition.
The more detailed credit appears in the Emissions Data and Climate-related Risks Reporting section of the report. Tesco notes that its Scope 3 inventory now includes work with Mondra, which allocates emission factors at ingredient level in an automated way, rather than at a product line level. The report states that around 68% of food and beverage emission factors used in Tesco's carbon inventory were derived from Mondra.
The report also references the BRC Mondra Coalition, the cross-industry initiative Mondra helped establish with the British Retail Consortium, as part of Tesco's work to improve the consistency and accuracy of carbon reporting across the food retail supply chain.
The difference between ingredient-level and product-line emission factors is meaningful. Product-line approaches mask variation within a range. They also tend to stay static as products, sourcing and suppliers change, which means the reported footprint drifts further from reality over time. Ingredient-level data, allocated automatically and updated dynamically, produces a footprint that moves with the business rather than lagging behind it.
We have loved working with Tesco on this and are looking forward to helping them progress further in the year to come.
Tesco's full 2026 Sustainability Report is available here.
