# Backdrop

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2021 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Design + Home
**Website:** https://www.backdrophome.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://www.backdrophome.com/

## Sustainability story

Backdrop is excited to be a role model in the paint category for what a new generation of thoughtful and responsible companies can look like. From the outset, we made sure our products met the strictest environmental standards in our industry, even obtaining third party validation via Green Wise for our low VOC and low odor water based paints. We know that small steps can have big impacts. As a Climate Neutral Certified company, Backdrop prioritizes limiting and offsetting our emissions, measuring our carbon footprint, and strategically reducing our carbon impact year over year.

## Emissions (2025)

**Methodology:** Backdrop's inventory uses spending data to estimate GHG emissions. Backdrop attests to the accuracy of their data inputs and the Change Climate Project team reviews the submission for compliance with the Standard.

- Scope 1: 1 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 8 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 8 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 1,025 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 1,025 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 1,034 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 1,034 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per unit of product — unit of product

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 7.06 |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4.3 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 2.45 |
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4.35 |
| 2024 | 1 | 8 | 1,025 | 13.57 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions by developing and implementing a sustainable purchasing policy with our vendors. (source: Operational waste, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from employee commuting by encouraging remote working and travel for in-person meetings or events only when necessary. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Redesign cardboard inserts across protective materials to 100% biodegradable packing. (source: Packaging, target: Q1 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy to extend the lifespan of laptops by 10% in Backdrop office and warehouses. (source: Capital expenditures, target: Q3 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Eliminate all downstream shipments via overnight shipping across expedited orders. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q1 2025, completion: 40%)
- **Scope 3** — Manufacture goods closer to our consumers to reduce miles traveled across all customer shipping. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q4 2025, completion: 15%)
- **Scope 3** — Redesign outer construction across Fan Decks to reduce use of plastic (source: Packaging, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $15,512.38

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $2,788.1
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Fully compostable packing materials (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $2,788.1
- [BVC] BONOS X-HAZIL (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $596.78 — type: Forestry, registry: Climate Action Reserve, vintage: 2021, location: Mexico, provider: CNaught
- [BVC] Liling Landfill Gas Project (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $7,076.25 — type: Landfill Gas, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2022, location: China, provider: CNaught
- [BVC] Bottomland Forests of the Louisiana Plains (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $123.75 — type: Forestry, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2022, location: USA, provider: CNaught
- [BVC] Manoa REDD+ (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $4,016.25 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2018, location: Brazil, provider: CNaught
- [BVC] Liling Landfill Gas Project (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $551.25 — type: Landfill Gas, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2022, location: China, provider: CNaught
- [BVC] Bottomland Forests of the Louisiana Plains (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $315 — type: Forestry, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2022, location: USA, provider: CNaught
- [BVC] BONOS X-HAZIL (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $45 — type: Forestry, registry: Climate Action Reserve, vintage: 2021, location: Mexico, provider: CNaught

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