NET ZERO PLEDGES

Setting the Example: Watford FC’s Net Zero Strategy

Watford FC and ClearVUE.Business partner to pursue ambitious net zero goals. Get to know the historic English football club and leading net zero solutions provider’s net zero game plan and follow their journey below.

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Making Net Zero a Goal for All Sport Clubs

Tackling the climate emergency in isolation will not work. It is a collaborative effort – of governments, people, businesses, and other stakeholders, tapping into each other’s enthusiasm, expertise and desire for change.

This relations between ClearVUE.Business and Watford FC comes from a combined passion to protect the future of the planet and work together to tackle the climate emergency. Watford FC’s drive to become the most sustainable club in the English Football League, but without a dedicated resource of net zero consultancy and technology, the goal would be off target. Partnering with ClearVUE.Business was essential.

Watford FC’s stakeholders want the club not only to take care about its own sustainability but also to create a positive impact for those other businesses and the wider community around them and have an impact on society as whole. In addition, the club wants to be in a strong position to respond to new UK Government legislation to ensure they do not fall foul to carbon emission taxes or penalties. This will require the introduction of a strategy that heralds wholesale change in operational and behavioural measures.

But this is not why Watford have started the journey. They have started the journey because of a social conscience – a moral obligation to their fans to create a sustainable club that its young supporters and their future children can enjoy together for generations to come.

Our Pledge

Our Oath to Nature and Future Generations

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The 5 Step Process

01 Discovery

Initiating Watford FC’s ambitions to be market leaders in matters of sustainability and carbon net zero.

ClearVUE.Business worked with key stakeholders of Watford FC to understand the club’s drive and appetite for success. Together, they developed a high-level pledge and strategy to gain complete board level buy-in. From here, ClearVUE.Business could begin to propose short-, medium-, and long-term goals for the club to pursue on its net zero journey.

02 Baselining

Conducting a detailed energy audit of Vicarage Road stadium and training ground.

ClearVUE.Business conducted complete energy and SECR-compliant carbon audits to understand Watford FC’s current impact. The reports detailed Watford FC’s scope 1 and 2 emissions, provided an in-depth accounting of scope 3 data, and highlighted key areas needing attention from which progress could be made towards achieving Watford FC’s ambitious goals.

NEXT STEPS

03 Strategy Development

Creating a robust net zero strategy.

ClearVUE.Business and Watford FC are now assembling a detailed action plan. This plan will set out science-based targets to radically reduce emissions. Additionally, this detailed plan sets out how Watford FC can neutralise any remaining emissions through future green investments and projects.

04 Net Zero Roadmap

Formalising the bespoke net zero strategy into actionable steps.

With a net zero strategy established, the two parties will confirm the steps, the people, and the resources required to propel Watford FC towards its environmental objectives. ClearVUE.Business sustainabiilty consultants will provide invaluable expertise to determine key partners on the journey.

05 Programme Delivery

Journeying to net zero together.

ClearVUE.Business will support Watford FC on every step of the net zero journey, doing so with collaborative guidance, training, and reporting and compliance support.

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Destination Net Zero

2018–2021

Solving the problem means identifying the problem. We found Watford emitted 92 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 *. Now we know the extent, we know the road ahead.

Companies and their emissions grow over time. That’s why we’re promising to be net zero based on our 2018 baseline, no matter how much our company grows.

Watford’s in-scope GHG emissions by operation million tonnes of CO2e, in 2018

0.8 Dairy and livestock 34.2 Soil and forests 25.0 Other 6.4 7.5 11.0 7.0 65.6 Million tonnes of CO 2 e
Scope 3
Sourcing our ingredients 65.6 71.4%
Scope 1, 2 & 3
Manufacturing our products 7.0 7.7%
Scope 3
Packaging our products 11.0 11.9%
Scope 3
Managing logistics 7.5 8.2%
Scope 3
Travel and employee commuting 0.8 0.8%
Figures have been rounded.

2021–2025

We’re excited to hit the soil running. We’re accelerating our work in manufacturing, packaging and carbon-neutral brands. We’re also investing CHF 1.2 billion to help spark regenerative agriculture across our supply chain, as part of a total investment of CHF 3.2 billion by 2025.

Our Action Plan:

  • 100% deforestation free for primary supply chain by 2022

  • Switch our global car fleet to lower emission options by 2022

  • 100% certified sustainable palm oil by 2023

  • 100% renewable electricity in all our sites by 2025

  • 100% of our packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025

  • 100% certified sustainable cocoa and coffee by 2025

  • Source 20% of key ingredients through regenerative agricultural methods by 2025

  • Cut virgin plastic in our packaging by a third by 2025

  • Plant 20 million trees a year

  • Nestlé Waters becomes carbon neutral by 2025

2021–2025

We’re excited to hit the soil running. We’re accelerating our work in manufacturing, packaging and carbon-neutral brands. We’re also investing CHF 1.2 billion to help spark regenerative agriculture across our supply chain, as part of a total investment of CHF 3.2 billion by 2025.

Our Action Plan:

  • 100% deforestation free for primary supply chain by 2022

  • Switch our global car fleet to lower emission options by 2022

  • 100% certified sustainable palm oil by 2023

  • 100% renewable electricity in all our sites by 2025

  • 100% of our packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025

  • 100% certified sustainable cocoa and coffee by 2025

  • Source 20% of key ingredients through regenerative agricultural methods by 2025

  • Cut virgin plastic in our packaging by a third by 2025

  • Plant 20 million trees a year

  • Nestlé Waters becomes carbon neutral by 2025

2030–2050 Delivering our promise:
By 2050, we will reach net zero

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Advanced agricultural techniques will deliver a regenerative food system at scale, supported by zero emission logistics and company operations.

We will balance any remaining emissions through high-quality natural climate solutions that benefit people and the planet.

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