# Bambu

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed (expired), 2024
**Certified since:** 2023 (most recent: 2024)
**Industry:** Design + Home
**Website:** https://www.bambuhome.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://www.bambuhome.com/pages/certifications

## Sustainability story

Our Mission: For Over 20 Years Our Mission Has Remained Unchanged - To design, produce and market high-quality, plant-based products made from renewable materials. To provide a superior alternative to plastic and other unsafe materials. 

Our Reputation: A trusted brand known for Integrity, Innovation, and Commitment to better, safer products. 

Brand Values: Authenticity, Transparency, Ethical Consumption, Continuous Improvement.

## Emissions (2024)

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

- Scope 1: 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 1,241 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 0 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 1,241 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per dollar of value added — dollar of value added

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 (loc) | Scope 3 (mkt) | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.94 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1,241 | 1.07 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — Eliminate all upstream shipments via air freight by implementing a strict "no air ship" policy. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Redesign and re-engineer the bulk packaging of our most popular product line, Veneerware® compostable disposable plates, to reduce our plastic usage by 75%, our cubic volume of the inner box by 15%, and the overall weight by 1 lb. (source: Packaging, target: Q2 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Recycle and reuse over 60% of our total inner box inventory used for shipping down to our final customer from an initial baseline of 20%. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2024, completion: 40%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce flight-based business travel 75% for within China when team travels to supplier locations. (source: Business travel, target: Q3 2025, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 60% of our website hosting to a new host that utilizes renewable energy. (source: Software and servers, target: Q1 2025, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — We will work with our manufacturers to transition 80% of our babmoo to FSC certified sources in China across our houseware products. (source: Raw materials, target: Q4 2025, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2024)

**Total funding:** $9,021

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

### Projects
- [BVC] Blandin Native American Hardwoods Conservation (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $2,121 — type: Forestry, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2019, location: USA, provider: Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)
- [BVC] Ningxia Xiangshan Wind Farm (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $1,300 — type: Renewable Energy, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2021, location: China, provider: Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)
- [BVC] Hudson Tech HFC Reclamation Georgia (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $1,200 — type: Industrial, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2021, location: USA, provider: Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)
- [BVC] Southern Cardamom REDD+ (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $4,400 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2021, location: Cambodia, provider: SeaTrees

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