Planet

With over 14,400 locations worldwide, we have an opportunity to make a powerful contribution toward a cleaner future. Although many of our customers still depend on fossil fuels, we are committed to enabling a low-carbon future by expanding our offering of renewable fuels and electric vehicle charging, while reducing our own emissions, use of energy and water. We continue to introduce more sustainable packaging for our food items and other products in close collaboration with our suppliers.

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.

Ambition 2030

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.

Charging Networks — More, Faster, Easier Charging Networks — More, Faster, Easier

Our EV charger deployment continues at a fast pace across Europe. Over the past year, we expanded our Circle K-branded charging network from 450 chargers in FY22 to more than 850 by the end of FY23. Also, we added 690 partner chargers, distributed across 324 operational EV sites in Europe.
Guarantee of Origin (GoO) certificates are purchased for all electricity sold in our own network.

In the U.S., we activated our first company-branded site with high-power DC fast charging at a new prototype store in South Carolina, and extended the network to 29 sites, in service or waiting to be powered up.

In Sweden, we opened our very first speed chargers for heavy trucks — the first company in the country to do so. Our plan is to expand to 90 trucks chargers in 22 stations in Sweden in the next year, and to increase charging capacity from 360kW to 1000kW.

Reducing Emissions from Our Supply Chain Reducing Emissions from Our Supply Chain

Across our company-owned fuel delivery tanker fleet, we monitor vehicle performance and encourage energy-efficient driving behaviours to help lower CO2 emissions. In Ireland, we are converting our fleet of delivery vehicles to be fueled exclusively by milesBIO HVO100—a fossil-free biofuel made from waste, by-products, and derived products from the food industry not intended for human consumption. Anticipated emission reductions across our Irish operations equate to the emissions from more than 2,000 cars.

Reducing Energy Consumption

In FY23, we continued rolling out an energy management system in North America, adding 3,000 locations. This system provides the ability to remotely control exterior lighting and store temperature. Pilots are in place to extend the system to include car wash controls, remote equipment shutoff, metering, and demand load management. We are also piloting an energy management system in Europe at 10 sites in Sweden and Ireland.

Ambition 2030

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 provider of on-the-go food and drink items for immediate consumption, we have a significant role to play in helping to reduce waste. We are constantly on the lookout for ways to make sustainable solutions easy for our customers and our own teams. In FY23, driving our progress to reach a 25% sustainable improvement in our packaging, we undertook a global initiative to gather current branded packaging specifications, accelerating our efforts to track the sustainable transformation journey. Based on this work, we found that our foodservice and private brand packaging have a recyclability rate of over 80% across Canada and Europe.

Ambition 2030

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

Water is a finite resource that needs to be managed responsibly. With a global network of 2,700 car wash locations, we have implemented water recovery and recycling systems on many sites and continue to explore ways to reduce our water usage. Most of our sites in Sweden, Denmark and New-to-Industry locations in North America use water recycling units that save 75% of the water used.

Planet

Contributing to the UN Global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Priorities