To achieve The Climate Label in 2025 and beyond, here's what you'll need to do…
Measure
Small Brands: 1-2 hours
Large Brands: 1-3 months
Measure emissions and assess the carbon impacts of all of your products and services from cradle to customer.
It all starts here: with a solid inventory of the carbon emissions from making and delivering your products and services. Your measurement will include Scopes 1, 2, and upstream Scope 3 emissions (per the Greenhouse Gas Protocol).
You may already have this step nailed and have a solution lined up. That's great! On the other hand, measurement may sound overwhelming, expensive, and complex. Don’t worry. We’ve simplified the process through extensive guided content and our software tool, the Business Emissions Evaluator, or “BEE.”
FAQs
What are Scopes 1, 2, 3 emissions?
What Scope 3 categories do you measure?
We haven’t measured our emissions. How can we get started?
Fund
Varies based on your projects
Set your budget and fund qualifying projects within and beyond your value chain to reduce emissions.
We require all companies to allocate real dollars to climate projects. There is no one-size-fits-all approach, so we’ve designed the certification to work for companies of all shapes and sizes.
You have a unique set of opportunities to reduce emissions based on your industry, location, materials, and more — we enforce criteria in the Certification Standard to ensure these climate investments are credible, high impact, and “additional” so that they accelerate emissions reductions within each company and around the world.
We offer coaching, workshops, and other hands-on support to help you navigate - and document - how you’re funding the climate transition.
FAQs
How much will I have to spend?
What types of financial contributions qualify?
Reduce
1 week to develop a plan
1 to 2 years to implement
Build and implement detailed climate transition plans, and annually document progress toward emissions reductions.
We require all brands to develop specific, forward-looking reduction action plans (RAPs) to reduce emissions over the next 12-24 months. We're looking for concrete next steps your team is ready to implement.
Brands with over $100M in annual revenues are required to set science aligned reduction targets to reduce emissions ~50% by 2030.
We offer guides, templates, and tools to help you determine where, and how, you can reduce your emissions. Our network of 340+ brands is also an incredible resource for crafting your reduction action plans.
FAQs
What's a reduction plan?
How are we held accountable for reductions?
Report & Advocate
Reports are generated automatically
Time to Advocate varies
Report data and actions clearly and transparently. We believe a climate story is only credible if it’s clear, so we share your climate work in a concise, transparent format through our Certified Brand Directory.
Each brand profile page contains the following climate data:
- Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions
- Emissions intensity — your emissions relative to another business metric
- A summary of your reduction action plans, including progress to completion, and any science-aligned targets you’ve set
- Total financial contribution to the climate transition — and how it’s allocated to across different types of projects
- Your climate story: a space for you to talk about your climate work in your own words
This page is the public proof of your climate actions. By transparently reporting the details above, your impact is visible to consumers at a glance, and they can shop with confidence knowing that your initiatives are verified by an independent non-profit.
FAQs
Where will my certification details be reported?
What forms of Advocacy are recommended or required?
