{"id":2004,"date":"2016-04-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/uncategorized\/2004\/shopping-clean-retailers-and-renewable-energy-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:23:37","slug":"shopping-clean-retailers-and-renewable-energy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/publications\/2004\/shopping-clean-retailers-and-renewable-energy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shopping Clean &#8211; Retailers and Renewable Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"leader\">\n\tSouth Africa\u2019s top five retailers (Pick n Pay, Massmart, Spar, Woolworths and Shoprite) have a major role to play in shaping sustainable growth in the energy sector and need to champion South Africa\u2019s transition to 100% renewable energy, according to the latest report launched today by Greenpeace Africa.\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"South African supermarket renewable energy ranking guide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2018\/10\/eb33d35c-eb33d35c-comparitive-infograph-for-web.png\" alt=\"South African supermarket renewable energy ranking guide\" width=\"250\" height=\"214\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0The report \u2018<strong>Shopping Clean \u2013 Retailers and Renewable Energy\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0marks the\u00a0 launch of a new Greenpeace campaign \u2018<strong>Renewable Energy Champions\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0initially aimed at getting the country\u2019s top five retailers to show solar energy some love.<\/p>\n<p><span>The report outlines how retail companies in South Africa have made a start in the transition to 100% renewable energy. Most importantly, it details the current status of renewable energy investments and commitments from each of the top five retailers in South Africa. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The retailers are ranked against one another on four key criteria \u2013 energy transparency, commitment to renewable energy, greenhouse gas mitigation and lobbying for clean renewable energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-africa-stateless\/2018\/10\/998d4bd3-998d4bd3-shopping_clean_retailers_and_renewable_energy.pdf\">Download the full report.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\tSouth Africa\u2019s top five retailers (Pick n Pay, Massmart, Spar, Woolworths and Shoprite) have a major role to play in shaping sustainable growth in the energy sector and need to champion South Africa\u2019s transition to 100% renewable energy, according to the latest report launched today by Greenpeace Africa.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[65,29],"p4-page-type":[45],"class_list":["post-2004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-protecttheenvironment","tag-southafrica","tag-biodiversity","p4-page-type-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=2004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}