The switch is the result of a programme run by CCEP to encourage its third-party partners to transition to lower-carbon solutions.
CCEP led a 12-month collaboration between MJD and supplier Green Biofuels (GBF). Following the trial, MJD signed a deal for six million litres per annum of GD+. MJD will completely switch out diesel in all of its logistics and haulage operations at no additional capital expenditure cost, according to Green Biofuels.
Magnus Hammick, chief operating officer of GBF, said: “After looking into a number of other options, CCEP and MJD have found a here-and-now solution in GD+. To achieve 2050 climate goals, decarbonisation has to start now using existing new technologies like GD+ which does not require any hardware changes to achieve 85% emissions reductions.”
Javier Sanchez Gandarias, vice president, customer service and supply chain at Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (GB) said: “We have set ourselves the target of reducing emissions across our value chain by 30% by 2030 and this initiative forms an important part of achieving this aim.
In other news, BP has announced it has acquired a 30% stake in Green Biofuels Ltd. It said that the investment in Green Biofuels will expand bp’s global biofuels portfolio and its lower carbon solutions for UK customers, in line with its strategic aim of growing its bioenergy businesses as it transitions to become an integrated energy company. In December 2021 bp announced it had taken a stake in Gasrec - the UK’s largest dual provider of bio-liquified natural gas (LNG) and bio-compressed natural gas (CNG) to the heavy goods vehicles industry.
