# Bookshop.org®

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2021 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Software + Tech
**Website:** https://bookshop.org/
**Sustainability page:** https://bookshop.org/

## Sustainability story

Bookshop.org® is proud to have been certified Climate Neutral in 2020, 2021, 2022. 2023 and 2024!

## Emissions (2025)

**Methodology:** Bookshop.org®'s emissions inventory uses a mix of spending and activity-based data. Bookshop.org® attests to the accuracy of their data inputs and the Change Climate team reviews the submission for compliance with the Standard.

- Scope 1: 122 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 12 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 12 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 750 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 750 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 883 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 883 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per FTE — FTE

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 (loc) | Scope 2 (mkt) | Scope 3 (loc) | Scope 3 (mkt) | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 623 | 28,043.48 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 620 | 18,411.76 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 446 | 11,763.16 |
| 2023 | 121 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 642 | 19,325 |
| 2024 | 122 | 12 | 12 | 750 | 750 | 22,075 |

## Reduction plans

### Science-aligned targets
- We commit to reducing 2021 Scope 1 and 2 emissions 50% by 2030. (completion: 0%)

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 1** — We plan to reduce emissions from regular staff commuting and from purchased electricity and/or natural gas use in offices. (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: Q4 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce our purchasing of promotional and incentive products and merchandise that are damaging to the environment. (source: Operational waste, target: Q4 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — We plan to reduce emissions produced from the use of home office computer equipment. (source: Electricity, target: Q3 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from the production of certain products we purchase and distribute. (source: Operational waste, target: Q3 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce flight-based business travel 25% for the Marketing Team by supplementing attendance at regional conferences with local staff who can use ground transportation . (source: Business travel, target: Q4 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We will reduce the number of miles shipped by 20% by reducing the number of orders shipped from separate warehouses by using order logic to consolidate orders. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q2 2025, completion: 10%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce Scope 3.1 emissions by 20% by having employees shift physical book purchases to ebook purchases. (source: Emissions from employee book purchases, target: Q1 2026, completion: 30%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan on joining advocacy groups who are putting pressure on companies involved in the shipping, logistics and book manufacturing industries to reduce carbon emissions generally (source: Shipping, packaging and book manufacturing, target: Q1 2026, completion: 10%)
- **Scope 3** — We will evaluate shipping materials (packaging, glue and other supplies) used by  our distributors to identify and encourage potential lower carbon shipping material changes. (source: Encourage lower carbon shipping materials from Distributors, target: 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — We will reduce office equipment emissions by reducing new computer and home office equipment purchases for staff by 20%. We will do this by offering our team members refurbished products purchased from websites like Backmarket. (source: Capital expenditures, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $13,245.15

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $2,736
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $1,986.75
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Eco-friendly vendor for company swag (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $2,736
- [OC] BEE license (Software, Planning, Research & Development): $1,986.75
- [BVC] Phlogiston Phase I (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $1,346.4 — type: Industrial, registry: Climate Action Reserve, vintage: 2024, location: USA, provider: Other
- [BVC] Mangrove Restoration and Sustainable Development in Myanmar (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $1,044 — type: Mangroves, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2021, location: Myanmar, provider: Other
- [BVC] Refrigerant destruction - A-Gas SK (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $610.4 — type: Industrial, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2024, location: South Korea, provider: Other
- [BVC] EcoSafi Clean Cooking Program (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $2,844.8 — type: Cookstoves, registry: Gold Standard, vintage: 2023, location: Uganda, provider: Other
- [BVC] Landfill methane abatement (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $1,424.8 — type: Landfill Gas, registry: Gold Standard, vintage: 2021, location: Brazil, provider: Other
- [BVC] Enhanced weathering on rice paddies (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $467 — type: Direct Air Capture, registry: Not applicable - see Section 5f in the Standard, vintage: 2024, location: India, provider: Other
- [BVC] Enhanced rock weathering (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $785 — type: Mineralization, registry: Not applicable - see Section 5f in the Standard, vintage: 2024, location: Canada, provider: Other

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