Planet

With over 16,000 locations worldwide, we have a significant role to play, by providing options to our customers in the fuel products we sell, by reducing emissions from our operations and controlled supply chains, and in helping to reduce waste generation by promoting sustainable alternatives. We’re also continuing to work with suppliers to implement more sustainable packaging options, as well as encouraging customers to use refillable beverage containers.

Contributing to the UN Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Priorities

Fuel

Fossil fuel continues to be a necessity in most of our customers’ lives, but we are committed to contribute to future solutions regarding cleaner alternatives and reduced emissions and to support our customers and communities in this transition along the way.

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Energy

We are committed to reducing our environmental footprint and use resources more efficiently. We strive to be recognized as a leading retailer in reducing energy consumption, by improving the energy efficiency of our equipment and operations.

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Packaging & Waste

As a global provider of convenience items, we are continuously reducing the amount of waste through improved processes, working with reusing and recycling as well as introducing more sustainable packaging choices for our products.

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Fuel & Sustainable alternatives

By making it easy for our customers to access more sustainable fuel and transport energy alternatives, we can help everyone contribute to a better world.

Louise Warner

Senior Vice President Global Fuels and Executive Sponsor for Fuel and Net Zero

We meet 9 million customers every day and are committed to supporting their choices. Working together with our customers to reduce the carbon intensity of our mobility offer is how we will meet our 2025 fuel target of reducing our greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Making EV Charging Easy and Convenient for All Making EV Charging Easy and Convenient for All

Our EV charging network now includes over 2,500 charging points in Europe, of which over 1,800 are Circle K branded, 704 partner charging points and over 50 heavy-truck charging points in Sweden. Our European EV network grew 70% in 2024.
We continue to build on our experience and leading market position in Scandinavia to bring North American customers easy and adapted EV charging solutions as well as a compelling customer journey. In 2024, we reached a significant milestone: we now have 100 sites in North America with 131 Circle K-branded chargers, as part of our plan to offer EV charging at 200 sites by the end of 2024. In addition, we also have 285 partner chargers.
Currently, we are working on designing the charging hub of the future, with pilots under way in both Norway and Sweden. Our flagship station in Gothenburg, Sweden, has been named the second best EV hub in the world.

Fuel and Sustainable Alternatives Fuel and Sustainable Alternatives

As a responsible retailer in the mobility space, our goals are straightforward: to commercialize and offer our customers sustainable fuel offers that are available to us as a retailer, to remain competitive, and to make a meaningful difference within our control in the role we play in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To this end, we have been significantly growing the accessibility of our global renewable energy dispensers, with EV charging points, more sustainable fuel blends, and biofuels that have lower greenhouse gas emissions when used.

Reducing Energy Consumption

Across North America, we have replaced 12,000 HVAC units and switched to LED lighting. New energy management systems have been installed, allowing for the remote control of lighting, store temperature, and other equipment. Moreover, our One-Touch program, where all energy reduction initiatives are completed at a store level simultaneously, is over 95% complete. Following the success of this system in North America, we implemented remotely controlled energy management systems at 10 sites in Sweden and Ireland, and a further roll-out is expected in FY25

Aaron Brooks

Senior Vice President Real Estate &Executive Sponsor for Energy

This past year, we took a number of steps to improve the energy efficiency of our equipment and operations. By reducing our energy consumption, we are supporting the transition to a cleaner future not just for our company, but for the communities where we work and live.

As a global supplier of on-the-go food and beverages for immediate consumption, we play a crucial role in helping to reduce waste. As we continue to explore packaging solutions, we are looking for more sustainable options that make it easy for customers and our store teams.

In 2024, driving our work to reach a 25% improvement in our packaging compared to our 2020 baseline, we gathered data globally on current branded packaging specifications, measuring our progress to date. The results show that we have already exceeded our 2025 goal, with 32% of our packaging portfolio by weight meeting our sustainable attributes: recycled content, certified materials, reusability, or compostable materials.

Trey Powell

Senior Vice President, Global Merchandising

As a global provider of on-the-go food and drink items for immediate consumption, we have a significant role to play in improving our own packaging footprint. We are constantly on the lookout for ways to reduce our use of plastic, utilize recycled or certified materials, support local recycling initiatives and make sustainable solutions easy for our customers and our own teams.

First retailer with 100% sustainably-sourced or certified coffee First retailer with 100% sustainably-sourced or certified coffee

We offer 100% sustainably sourced or certified coffee in all our stores through our partnership with Rainforest Alliance in Canada and Europe and we serve 100% sustainably sourced coffee in the U.S.

Recovering and Recycling Water Recovering and Recycling Water

In North America, in 2024, we installed new Water Recycling (Water Reclaim) units at 29 new-to-industry locations. We also recently installed RO Reject Recovery water systems at over 40 locations and are using that water on specific wash cycles in Reload installations. This combined work will lead to an estimated savings of 217.3 million litres of water per year.
In Europe, we installed completely new or upgraded Water Reclaim systems at 24 locations. In Ireland, all new-to-industry car washes include water recycling systems, recycling up to 80% of washing water used, bringing the number of stations with such systems from 20 to 23 (up from 18% to 20% of the network).

Planet

Contributing to the UN Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Priorities