Viewpoint: Sustainable strategies

At Specsavers, our purpose is to change lives through better sight and hearing, but we can only do the great things we do for our patients if we look after our people, planet and the communities we serve. Sustainability is an important part of our business strategy and at its core it is about enabling long-term business resilience through mitigating our environmental impacts and maximising our social contribution.

Our environmental priority focuses on efficient use of resources throughout our operations and supply chain alongside building resilience against climate change. Our mindset is about protecting the planet alongside protecting our business. We have set ourselves the ambition to achieve net zero carbon emissions across our global operations and supply chain by 2050 with an interim goal to reduce carbon emissions in our direct operations by 50% and in our supply chain by 25%, both by 2030.