MiiR is Climate Neutral Certified

As a social enterprise, MiiR's shared purpose is to "give more and take less," emphasizing our commitment to business practices and strategies that uphold the long-term viability of both people and the planet.

Human-caused environmental degradation poses a threat not only to robust markets and healthy businesses but, more crucially, to our overall quality of life. Recognizing our responsibility as a consumer goods company, we acknowledge that the production of our products inherently impacts the planet. In our quest to better understand and mitigate this impact, we are dedicated to measuring our carbon footprint with increasing accuracy and compensating for the emissions that prove challenging to reduce.

Our Climate Neutral certification guides these efforts. The Change Climate Project, a nonprofit organization, is actively engaged in hastening the transition to a low-carbon world by encouraging companies to publicly measure, reduce, and compensate for unavoidable carbon emissions.

For three years in a row now, we have worked with the Change Climate Project to gain their Climate Neutral certification. This process includes:

(1)  Measure: We start by measuring emissions and assessing the carbon impacts of all of our products and services from cradle to customer. It all starts here: with a solid inventory of the carbon emissions from making and delivering our products and services. Measurement include Scopes 1, 2, and upstream Scope 3 emissions (per the Greenhouse Gas Protocol).

(2) Reduce: Once we’ve identified our “hot spots” we work to reduce value chain carbon emissions, and annually document plans and progress toward emissions reductions. We work with the Change Climate team to develop and implement reduction action plans (RAPs) that chart goals over a period of 12-24 months.

(3) Contribute: Finally, we make our contribution to global net-zero GHG emissions by purchasing eligible verified carbon and clean energy credits that support climate projects outside our value chain. To obtain the Climate Neutral Certified label, we buy one carbon credit for every tonne of our carbon emissions.

Being Climate Neutral Certified signifies that we not only recognize our GHG impact but can articulate our hotspots, set meaningful targets to reduce emissions throughout our value chain, and ultimately use the purchase of offsets to address emissions that are challenging to reduce.

Visit our Climate Neutral Certified profile page to learn more about our emissions, and how we’re tracking against our reduction goals.

A look into our 2022 Certification:

Measure: In 2022, we offset 13,089 tCO2e of carbon.

Reduce: Reduction will continue to be an ongoing effort at MiiR as we continuously refine our processes and reduce our impact on the planet. To learn more about some of the goals we’ve set, visit our brand profile on the Climate Neutral website here.

Contribute: All carbon offsets are not created equal, which is why we work with trusted partners like Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) to source projects we believe in and choose projects that uplift communities. BEF has a long history of investing in verified, high-quality carbon offset projects ranging from natural climate solutions, responsible agriculture, and clean energy. It’s an added bonus that they are a Pacific Northwest-based nonprofit and a fellow 1% for the Planet member.

Carbon Offset Portfolio