# Convert

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2020 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Software + Tech
**Website:** https://www.convert.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://www.convert.com/conscious-business/

## Sustainability story

Sustainability is in our ethos as a Conscious Business. We believe that for-profit businesses should be sustainable by design and be a force for good. Internally, we hire to eliminate bias and self-organize to find solutions. Externally, we dont allow our product to be used on sites that promote divisiveness, sell weapons, or are linked to fossil fuels. Our initiatives include; hosting on fully carbon-neutral servers, creating an internal Conscious Business Fund, striving to be 100x carbon negative, planting trees, and using a feedback tool that plants trees as we improve together. Additionally, the Climate Neutral certification keeps us inspired with new ideas from other like-minded businesses on how to do better for the planet every year.

## Emissions (2025)

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

- Scope 1: 13 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 50 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 50 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 362 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 362 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 425 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 425 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per FTE — FTE

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2019 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 6,866.67 |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 8,066.67 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 5,171.43 |
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 4,600 |
| 2024 | 13 | 50 | 362 | 6,538.46 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from the purchase of computers, peripherals, and home office furniture. (source: Capital expenditures, target: Q4 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Emissions from company retreat (source: Business travel, target: Q4 2022, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions generated by the software we use for our business. (source: Software and servers, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — We plan to reduce our employees' emissions associated with working from home. (source: Electricity, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Work with Converters and vendors to reduce initial GhG emissions by making savvyier choices in location, accomodation, mode of transport, and/or item type. (source: Business travel, target: Q4 2020, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement internal carbon pricing. Carbon offsets financed from internal budgets (source: Goods & services, target: Q4 2020, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce emissions from SWAG purchased for customers by defaulting to experiences not things. (source: Goods & services, target: Q4 2020, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — To further demonstrate our commitment to environmental stewardship, we will shift from traditional to digital gifting strategies. (source: Goods & services, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — We will conduct audits on converters, identifying inefficiencies. We will use findings to optimize & implement energy-saving measures, reducing emissions. (source: Electricity, target: Q2 2024, completion: 60%)
- **Scope 2** — We will establish a budget to educate and encourage employees to reduce carbon emissions in home offices by conduct regular virtual training sessions on energy conservation, digital minimalism, and eco-friendly home office setups. (source: Electricity, target: Q2 2025, completion: 20%)
- **Scope 3** — We will provide incentives via Emburse cards to encourage employees to adopt eco-friendly commuting practices such as using public transport, biking, or carpooling to get to coworking spaces (source: Employee commuting, target: Q1 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Conduct an audit of AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Claude) to understand their energy intensity. Prioritize tools that disclose emissions, use renewable-powered data centers, or offer green AI options (source: Software and servers, target: 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — We aim to achieve a 10% reduction in total business travel-related carbon emissions, primarily from retreats and in-person gatherings, through better location planning, sustainable travel choices, hybrid participation, and improved vendor screening. (source: Business travel, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $6,480.02

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $953.77
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $956.25
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [OC] BEE subscription and guided support (Capacity-building & change management (e.g. staff costs), Planning, Research & Development): $956.25
- [VCA] Solar Panels and Batteries (Clean energy generation, Energy Procurement & Production): $953.77
- [BVC] Borneo Peatlands (Katingan Peatland Restoration and Conservation) (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $2,570 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2020, location: Indonesia, provider: Patch
- [BVC] SunCulture Solar Water Pumps (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $2,000 — type: Water Filtration, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2024, location: Kenya, provider: Patch

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