# Bread Alone Bakery

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2026
**Certified since:** 2020 (most recent: 2026)
**Industry:** Food + Beverage
**Website:** https://www.breadalone.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://www.breadalone.com/sustainability

## Sustainability story

Bread Alone Bakery is a certified organic, values-driven bakery. We?ve been baking with organic grains since our first loaf in 1983, and we continue to do so today. Care for the planet is part of our past. Action against climate change must be in our future. Bread Alone committed to Certified Climate Neutral because the planet is warming at an alarming rate, with terrifying consequences, and we must collectively take faster and more aggressive action. Certified Climate Neutral will give customers the information needed to make the right decision for the planet, and for our collective future. In 2022 we opened the very first carbon neutral bakery at our original location in the Catskill Mountains town of Boiceville, New York. Baking by the power of the sun every day!

## Emissions (2026)

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

- Scope 1: 443 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 106 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 106 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 3,416 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 3,416 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 3,966 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 3,966 tCO2e**

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

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2019 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.48 |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.4 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.47 |
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.58 |
| 2024 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.72 |
| 2025 | 443 | 106 | 3,416 | 0.76 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 2** — We will reduce emissions from purchased electricity and from fossil-fuel based equipment such as stoves, HVAC, etc. (source: Electricity, target: Q3 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce Food Waste company wide by 25%. (source: Operational waste, target: Q1 2023, completion: 60%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce paper waste by 80%. (source: Packaging, target: Q1 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — We will reduce our electric usage. (source: Electricity, target: Q4 2022, completion: 30%)
- **Scope 2** — Reduce non- renewable energy use at Boiceville facility. (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: Q2 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 1** — Reduce non-renewable energy use at Boiceville facility. (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: Q2 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — We are installing on-site solar at our Boiceville facility. (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: Q3 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — Reduce non-renewable energy use at Kingston facility. (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: Q2 2021, completion: 15%)
- **Scope 2** — Reduce non-renewable energy use at Woodstock and Rhinebeck cafes. (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: Q4 2021, completion: 20%)
- **Scope 3** — Replace bread bags made from LDPE plastic with compostable film. (source: Packaging, target: Q3 2020, completion: 90%)
- **Scope 1** — We plan to reduce emissions from delivery vehicles. (source: Vehicle fleet, target: Q1 2022, completion: 31%)
- **Scope 1** — Replace natural gas burner with electric burner in Wholesale Bakery deck ovens (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: Q4 2024, completion: 20%)
- **Scope 1** — Replace propane grills and cooktops with electric versions (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: Q4 2023, completion: 10%)
- **Scope 1** — Replace all gas-powered cooking equipment with electric (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: Q3 2023, completion: 20%)
- **Scope 3** — We will influence the reduction of cradle to gate emissions by leveraging our relationship with our millers, encouraging them to adopt alternative power sources, specifically solar, and offering them an insiders guide to building a net-zero business. (source: Supply chain energy use, target: Q4 2024, completion: 40%)
- **Scope 1** — Reduce Scope 1 emissions by 50% by installing onsite Geothermal Wells to power the energy use in Lake Katrine HQ by end of Q4 2025. (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: Q4 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce cleaning and chemical emissions by 70% by reducing single use plastic chemical containers and replacing them with tote and piping solution by end of Q3 2025. (source: Raw Materials, target: Q3 2025, completion: 15%)
- **Scope 2** — Repair and bring solar array back online, reducing the amount of electricity needed to be purchased from the grid. (source: Electricity, target: 2027, completion: 10%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce the number of tankers traveling to and from Canada for our flour by roughly 37%. (source: Upstream shipping, target: 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We will divert 100% of our organic food waste currently sent for composting towards an animal feed program, significantly higher on the Food Recovery Hierarchy. (source: Operational waste, target: 2027, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition a portion of our current virgin plastic packaging to a film produced with Post Consumer Recycled materials across our sliced bread SKUs (source: Packaging, target: 2028, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2026)

**Total funding:** $74,852.38

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $74,852.38
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Silo Construction to Reduce Paper Waste (Low-carbon material switching, Materials & Manufacturing): $10,927.71
- [VCA] Bread Cooling via Vacuum Chambers in place of Cooling via Forced Air (Low-carbon material switching, Materials & Manufacturing): $20,711.68
- [VCA] Electric Oven to Replace Previous Gas Fired Oven (Electrification, Efficiency & Electrification): $43,212.99

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