# CHNGE

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2021 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Fashion + Apparel
**Website:** https://chnge.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://chnge.com/sustainability

## Sustainability story

With a commitment to climate neutrality, responsible fabrics, and fairtrade production, at CHNGE we are creating ethical clothing that will outlive your closet, so you can buy less by buying better.

## Emissions (2025)

**Methodology:** CHNGE's inventory uses spending data to estimate GHG emissions. CHNGE 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): 1 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 1 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 993 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 993 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 994 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 994 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per dollar of revenue — dollar of revenue

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.38 |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.28 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.21 |
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.55 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 993 | 0.24 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — We plan to work with your factories or suppliers to improve energy efficiency (source: Supply chain energy use, target: Q4 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from shipping by switching from air to ocean freight. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q1 2022, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce waste by adopting more of a preorder model for 25% of our orders for the purchasing of our clothing, so we are not manufacturing extra inventory that will not be sold. (source: Operational waste, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from the poly-bags that our clothes are shipped in by replacing them with a more sustainable alternative. (source: Packaging, target: Q1 2024, completion: 80%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce waste from returns and excess inventory for a total of 30% from baseline through adopting more of a preorder model for the purchasing of our clothing, so we are not manufacturing extra inventory that will not be sold in US. (source: Operational waste, target: Q1 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy for remote work to reduce commuting and office emissions for New York. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — Transition 50% of electricity to solar in our headquarters. (source: Electricity, target: Q4 2025, completion: 25%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 25% of our data usage to renewable energy across our website. (source: Software and servers, target: Q4 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Develop a new biodegradable alternatives to reduce emissions associated with recylced polyester by 100 across labels (source: Raw materials, target: 2027, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce employee commuting emissions by by 100 for all employees by bike to work (source: Employee commuting, target: 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Eliminate all downstream shipments via overnight shipping across all customer shipping (source: Downstream shipping, target: 2027, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — We want to launch a resale program to take back our products and resell them.  We would like to take back approximately 5% of our products by 2028. We will try to pilot in 2027 (source: Operational Waste, target: 2028, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $68,465.6

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $68,465.6
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Organic Cotton Apparel (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $68,465.6

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