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href="/standards" class="text-style-link">Certification Standard</a>. The process can be completed in 3-6 months, whether you're a seasoned pro or new to climate work. Along the way, you’ll have access to our carbon management tools, workshops, network, and community.</p></div><div class="padding-vertical padding-large"><div class="why-cn-cards_component"><div id="w-node-_7189a784-763e-9edd-975c-e5be14c0d9fa-1f800291" class="why-cn-cards_item"><div class="why-cn-cards_content"><h4 class="why-cn-cards_title"><strong>Option 1: Join a Guided Certification Cycle</strong></h4><div class="rich-text-standard w-richtext"><p>We provide structured certification cycles throughout the year, where we offer resources and guidance to get you through each step of the process:</p><ul role="list"><li>A dedicated carbon management coach. </li><li>Group workshops on how to measure, build reduction plans, and research carbon credits.</li><li>Structured program to keep you on track to certify.</li></ul></div></div></div><div id="w-node-_7189a784-763e-9edd-975c-e5be14c0da09-1f800291" class="why-cn-cards_item is-terracotta"><div class="why-cn-cards_content"><h4 class="why-cn-cards_title"><strong>Option 2: Apply via Independent Submission</strong></h4><div class="rich-text-standard w-richtext"><p>Work independently or with a trusted consulting partner to meet our Standard, and apply for certification when you’re ready.</p><ul role="list"><li>Follow your own timeline.</li><li>Use any external tools that meet our technical requirements.</li><li>Submit the application. We review and assess eligibility for certification </li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></header><main><div class="header padding-top-80"><div class="container"><div class="max-width-928 margin-auto text-align-center"><h2>To achieve The Climate Label in 2025 and beyond, here's what you'll need to do…</h2></div></div></div><div class="section_impact pt-144"><div class="container"><div class="hiw-block"><div class="hiw__sticky"><div class="brands-colored-divider teal"></div><h3>Measure</h3><div class="hiw__at-a-glance"><div class="p-small mb-4">Time to Complete</div><p>Small Brands: 1-2 hours<br/>Large Brands: 1-3 months </p></div></div><div class="hiw-spacer"></div><div class="hiw-content"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5f0c587ab32ca0ef2d078a87/5f317c773b89f9dcf7390de5_bee-placeholder.png" alt="A mockup of the BEE displayed on a laptop screen" loading="lazy" sizes="(max-width: 479px) 90vw, (max-width: 767px) 92vw, (max-width: 991px) 58vw, 47vw" srcset="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5f0c587ab32ca0ef2d078a87/5f317c773b89f9dcf7390de5_bee-placeholder-p-500.png 500w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5f0c587ab32ca0ef2d078a87/5f317c773b89f9dcf7390de5_bee-placeholder-p-800.png 800w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5f0c587ab32ca0ef2d078a87/5f317c773b89f9dcf7390de5_bee-placeholder-p-1080.png 1080w, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/5f0c587ab32ca0ef2d078a87/5f317c773b89f9dcf7390de5_bee-placeholder.png 1920w" class="hiw-image"/><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p><strong>Measure emissions</strong> and assess the carbon impacts of all of your products and services from cradle to customer.</p><p>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).</p><p>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.”<br/></p></div><div class="hiw-sub-section"><h4>FAQs</h4><div class="dropdown-wrapper"><div class="dropdown-trigger"><div class="dropdown-icon__wrapper"><div class="dropdown-icon"></div><div class="dropdown-icon rotate"></div></div><p><strong>What are Scopes 1, 2, 3 emissions?</strong></p></div><div class="dropdown-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p><a href="https://ghgprotocol.org/" target="_blank">Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions</a> represent the entirety of a carbon footprint from a company’s activities. <strong>‍</strong></p><ul role="list"><li>‍<strong>Scope 1</strong> are direct emissions that come from controlled facilities. This can include the fuel you burn in company vehicles, the natural gas you use to heat your office, or any direct emissions from owned manufacturing plants.<strong>‍</strong></li><li><strong>Scope 2</strong> are indirect emissions. This is mostly your purchased electricity.</li><li>‍<strong>Scope 3</strong> are indirect emissions from your supply chain – that means emissions released from extracting raw materials used for finished products, corporate business travel, employee commuting, shipping and transporting, and more. In most cases, Scope 3 makes up a majority of a company’s footprint.</li></ul></div></div><div class="dropdown-divider"></div></div><div class="dropdown-wrapper"><div class="dropdown-trigger"><div class="dropdown-icon__wrapper"><div class="dropdown-icon"></div><div class="dropdown-icon rotate"></div></div><p><strong>What Scope 3 categories do you measure?</strong></p></div><div class="dropdown-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>Our certification requires that you measure Scope 3 Categories 1-7 and 9. Check out our <a href="https://www.climateneutral.org/standards">Standard</a> to learn more about measurement boundary requirements.<br/></p></div></div><div class="dropdown-divider"></div></div><div class="dropdown-wrapper"><div class="dropdown-trigger"><div class="dropdown-icon__wrapper"><div class="dropdown-icon"></div><div class="dropdown-icon rotate"></div></div><p><strong>We haven’t measured our emissions. How can we get started?</strong></p></div><div class="dropdown-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>No worries! We get that a lot :) our carbon management tool, the<strong> </strong><a href="/bee">BEE</a>, is the low-cost, user-friendly answer for you. It’ll guide you step-by-step to collect data about your company, create an emissions estimate, and — for companies with over $5M in annual revenue — prompt you to add detailed operational data to produce a GHG inventory, which is a report of your company’s total emissions.<br/></p></div><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>If you prefer, you can also work with a consultant or use an external tool to create an emissions report that meets our certification requirements.<br/></p></div></div><div class="dropdown-divider"></div></div></div><div class="hiw-sub-section hidden"><h4>For Example</h4><div class="w-richtext"><p><strong>Your company, InTents</strong> is a tents company headquartered in Portland, Oregon, with most of its manufacturing based in China. The company had $80M in revenue in 2022.</p></div><div class="dropdown-wrapper"><div class="dropdown-trigger"><div class="dropdown-icon__wrapper"><div class="dropdown-icon"></div><div class="dropdown-icon rotate"></div></div><p>Read More</p></div><div class="dropdown-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>If you have a measurement plan with a software provider or consultant, you create a report matching our boundary and measurement requirements for the full year 2022. </p><p>Or, you hop into the <a href="https://www.climateneutral.org/bee">BEE,</a> and drop in a headquarters location (United States), annual spending ($50M), and spending broken down by product. The BEE provides you with a high-level estimate of your emissions of 67,145 tonnes of carbon equivalent. Your team then refines this estimate using activity data to match your specific operating activities. Your preliminary refined emissions calculation is 63,150 tCO2e.</p><p>You take your external report or the report from the BEE and submit it to our certification team for review. If your revenues were >$100m, you would need to accompany this submission with an external verification report.<br/></p></div></div><div class="dropdown-divider"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="section_impact"><div class="container"><div class="hiw-block"><div class="hiw__sticky last-sticky"><div class="brands-colored-divider blush"></div><h3>Fund</h3><div class="hiw__at-a-glance"><div class="p-small mb-4">Time to Complete</div><p>Varies based on your projects</p></div></div><div class="hiw-spacer"></div><div class="hiw-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p><strong>Set your budget and fund qualifying projects</strong> within and beyond your value chain to reduce emissions.</p><p>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. </p><p>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. </p><p>We offer coaching, workshops, and other hands-on support to help you navigate - and document - how you’re funding the climate transition.<br/></p></div><div class="hiw-sub-section"><h4>FAQs</h4><div class="dropdown-wrapper"><div class="dropdown-trigger"><div class="dropdown-icon__wrapper"><div class="dropdown-icon"></div><div class="dropdown-icon rotate"></div></div><p><strong>How much will I have to spend?</strong></p></div><div class="dropdown-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>Every company has a role to play in contributing, little by little, to funding the climate transition. You’ll calculate a budget based on a carbon fee defined in the <a href="/standards">Certification Standard</a> — that fee is the same for all companies — and your total emissions, so that your budget is equivalent to the scale of your emissions. You’ll then deploy that budget to climate projects across your company, supply chain, and around the world, all the while strengthening relationships with your manufacturing partners, driving loyalty among consumers shopping with their values, and — you guessed it — leading to real emissions reductions. When your emissions decrease, your budget will too. That’s how the funding mechanism works to accelerate the climate transition.</p></div></div><div class="dropdown-divider"></div></div><div class="dropdown-wrapper"><div class="dropdown-trigger"><div class="dropdown-icon__wrapper"><div class="dropdown-icon"></div><div class="dropdown-icon rotate"></div></div><p><strong>What types of financial contributions qualify?</strong></p></div><div class="dropdown-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p><strong>Value chain projects:</strong> Projects that support the transition to clean energy, low carbon materials, energy efficient manufacturing, low carbon shipping, and more.</p><p><strong>Beyond value chain projects:</strong> Projects like verified carbon and clean energy credits around the world may be eligible for certification if they meet vintage year, verification, and other criteria to ensure high-quality. Check out our <a href="/standards">Standard</a> for the full list.</p><p>‍<strong>Other contributions:</strong> Projects that enable planning, research, and development, build capacity, support climate advocacy and climate justice initiatives.</p><p>Check out our <a href="/standards">Standard</a> for the full list.<br/></p></div></div><div class="dropdown-divider"></div></div></div><div class="hiw-sub-section hidden"><h4>For Example</h4><div class="w-richtext"><p>Your team at InTents noticed a large portion of your emissions were coming from purchased materials and business travel.</p></div><div class="dropdown-wrapper"><div class="dropdown-trigger"><div class="dropdown-icon__wrapper"><div class="dropdown-icon"></div><div class="dropdown-icon rotate"></div></div><p>Read More</p></div><div class="dropdown-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>You buy a lot of polyester material, aluminum, and packaging paper and cardboard. You consult with your product design team and decide to switch 20% of your materials to recycled versions, which are far less carbon-intensive. </p><p>Another big source of emissions was the amount of corporate air travel, so your team will rely on video calls to cut down air travel by 20%, based on a new travel policy that you will implement next quarter.<br/></p><p><br/></p></div></div><div class="dropdown-divider"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="section_impact"><div class="container"><div class="hiw-block"><div class="hiw__sticky"><div class="brands-colored-divider terracota"></div><h3>Reduce</h3><div class="hiw__at-a-glance"><div class="p-small mb-4">Time to Complete</div><p>1 week to develop a plan<br/>1 to 2 years to implement</p></div></div><div class="hiw-spacer"></div><div class="hiw-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p><strong>Build and implement detailed climate transition plans</strong>, and annually document progress toward emissions reductions.<br/></p></div><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>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.<br/></p></div><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>Brands with over $100M in annual revenues are required to set science aligned reduction targets to reduce emissions ~50% by 2030.<br/></p></div><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>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.<br/></p></div><div class="hiw-sub-section"><h4>FAQs</h4><div class="dropdown-wrapper"><div class="dropdown-trigger"><div class="dropdown-icon__wrapper"><div class="dropdown-icon"></div><div class="dropdown-icon rotate"></div></div><p><strong>What's a reduction plan?</strong></p></div><div class="dropdown-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>A reduction action plan outlines what scope/category you’re aiming to reduce, your target, the timetable for achieving it, and how you’ll actually get it done.</p></div></div><div class="dropdown-divider"></div></div><div class="dropdown-wrapper"><div class="dropdown-trigger"><div class="dropdown-icon__wrapper"><div class="dropdown-icon"></div><div class="dropdown-icon rotate"></div></div><p><strong>How are we held accountable for reductions?</strong></p></div><div class="dropdown-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>You will be required to report on your reduction progress annually. Your progress is measured in % completion for each RAP, and is included on your brand profile page on our website.</p><p>You will also be required to report on quantitative reduction progress during "checkpoint" years. More information on this is available in our Standard.<br/></p></div></div><div class="dropdown-divider"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="section_impact"><div class="container"><div class="hiw-block"><div class="hiw__sticky"><div class="brands-colored-divider green"></div><h3>Report & Advocate</h3><div class="hiw__at-a-glance"><div class="p-small mb-4">Time to Complete</div><p>Reports are generated automatically<br/><br/>Time to Advocate varies</p></div></div><div class="hiw-spacer"></div><div class="hiw-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p><strong>Report data and actions clearly and transparently.</strong> 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 <a href="https://explore.changeclimate.org/">Certified Brand Directory</a>.<br/></p></div><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>Each brand profile page contains the following climate data: </p><ul role="list"><li>Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions</li><li>Emissions intensity — your emissions relative to another business metric</li><li>A summary of your reduction action plans, including progress to completion, and any science-aligned targets you’ve set</li><li>Total financial contribution to the climate transition — and how it’s allocated to across different types of projects</li><li>Your climate story: a space for you to talk about your climate work in your own words</li></ul><p>This page is the public proof of your climate actions. 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The Page becomes part of our searchable directory and is a good resource for your sustainability reporting.</p></div></div><div class="dropdown-divider"></div></div><div class="dropdown-wrapper"><div class="dropdown-trigger"><div class="dropdown-icon__wrapper"><div class="dropdown-icon"></div><div class="dropdown-icon rotate"></div></div><p><strong>What forms of Advocacy are recommended or required?</strong></p></div><div class="dropdown-content"><div class="rich-text-block w-richtext"><p>We ask you to report on the ways your company is advocating for a just transition, including the requirement that you use your certification label in your marketing. 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