# Commons

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2023 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Software + Tech
**Website:** https://www.thecommons.earth/
**Sustainability page:** https://www.thecommons.earth/impact

## Sustainability story

The Commons app empowers tens of thousands of people to drive the shift toward a low-carbon economy.

In the app, users earn rewards for sustainable spending choices, get resources to find sustainable brands, and access tools to track their carbon footprint as they make progress.

Internally, we practice what we preach. To continually lower our company emissions among our remote team, we limit travel, choose alternatives to flights when possible, and pick more efficient flights when it’s not. We also choose sustainable lodging and meals for our team events.

Together, we’re using our spending to build a more sustainable world.

## Emissions (2025)

**Methodology:** Commons's inventory uses spending data to estimate GHG emissions. Commons 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): 82 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 82 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 83 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 83 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 |
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 77 | 7,800 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 92 | 6,200 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 82 | 82 | 5,187.5 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy for low-carbon commuting to incentivize public transit for all US locations. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q3 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce total business travel for all remote employees by reducing the number of full-team on-sites by at least 1 (25%). (source: Business travel, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We will implement a low carbon purchasing policy to increase the percentage of electronic equipment we purchase secondhand by 25%. (source: Capital expenditures, target: Q4 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We will implement a low carbon transit policy to have 100% of car-based transit during colocations be in EV or hybrid vehicles. (source: Emissions from car-based business transit, target: Q4 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a low carbon purchasing policy so that 100% of company swag is made of eco-friendly materials and slow production. (source: Raw materials, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $1,449

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $284.9
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Reducing work-from-home energy intensity via smart power strips (Energy efficiency, Efficiency & Electrification): $284.9
- [BVC] Borneo Peatlands (Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation) (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $222.5 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2021, location: Indonesia, provider: ACT Commodities
- [BVC] Tradewater - Thailand 5 (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $38 — type: Industrial, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2023, location: Thailand, provider: Tradewater
- [BVC] Tradewater -- Thailand 7 (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $525 — type: Industrial, registry: Climate Action Reserve, vintage: 2024, location: Thailand, provider: Tradewater
- [BVC] Delta Blue Carbon – 1 (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $132.56 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2020, location: Pakistan, provider: Pachama
- [BVC] Manoa REDD+ (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $84.56 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2018, location: Brazil, provider: Pachama
- [BVC] Borneo Peatlands (Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation) (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $23.48 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2019, location: Indonesia, provider: Pachama
- [BVC] Delta Blue Carbon – 1 (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $138 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2022, location: Pakistan, provider: ACT Commodities

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