In an effort to measure, manage, and minimize its global environmental impact, Super Group, Ltd., has implemented the Acco2unt solution, offered by London-based Greenstone Carbon Management.

In essence, Super Group likes to say that it integrates supply and demand: With headquarters in Sandton, South Africa, it is a supply chain management business that leaves an international footprint.

From sourcing to procurement, to transport, warehousing, and distribution of goods and services, Super Group offers improved efficiencies, reduced risk, and cost savings to its clients. This is facilitated through coordination and collaboration with Super Group’s channel partners, including suppliers, intermediaries, third-party service providers, and customers.

According to the group’s 2011 Sustainability Report, its total carbon emissions (tCO2E) for the period from July 1, 2009, through June 30, 2010, in its two major markets, South Africa and Australia, totaled 152,992 tons (calculated according to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol). Travel and transport accounted for 88 percent of emissions, primarily due to Super Group’s large fleet of company vehicles. In the report, the company vowed to do whatever would be necessary “to control and mitigate this.”

Now, implementing the Acco2unt solution from Greenstone Carbon Management “signals another significant step in Super Group’s drive to improve its environmental performance across its [three operational divisions—Supply Chain, Fleet Solutions, and Dealerships],” the firm said in a press release.

The carbon accounting software enables Super Group to:

• Identify opportunities to reduce its environmental impact,
• Set specific targets for business activities or regions, and
• Monitor performance over time to ensure that the associated financial savings are achieved. This will allow Super Group to track and manage the carbon emissions across its three operational divisions.

“Greenstone's Acco2unt solution makes the whole process of tracking our emissions quicker, easier, and more cost-effective. We are able to track and monitor our carbon emissions in each of our divisions and set focused reduction targets. The software allows us to review the impact of carbon emissions during current operations and also model and forecast emissions for any planned business growth,” said Group Company Secretary Nigel Redford.

Greenstone’s Acco2unt implementation partner in South Africa — Cleaner Climate, a climate change consultancy — is now working with Super Group to develop a carbon emissions reduction program.

Greenstone’s CEO, Matthew de Villiers, said, “We are delighted that Super Group has selected Greenstone’s Acco2unt solution and, together with our South African partner, Cleaner Climate, we look forward to helping Super Group deliver on their commitment to becoming recognized as a leader in environmental performance. We are seeing increasing interest in companies taking a proactive approach to carbon management in South Africa — and companies like Super Group are setting the example.”

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