# Holden Rings

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

## Sustainability story

Our sustainability story starts with our product. Since day one, we've crafted our rings locally in NYC using recycled precious metals and ethical, lab-grown diamonds. We make each ring to order, meaning no wasteful excess inventory, and we offer a lifetime guarantee on every ring. Over the past few years, we've worked towards reducing our environmental impact in many facets of our business, from switching to 100% SCS-certified recycled gold to making sure all of our packaging is curbside recyclable. We're proud of the progress we've made, but we know there's a lot more we can accomplish. We're excited to partner with Climate Neutral to both offset our carbon footprint and help us work toward our broader sustainability goals.

## Emissions (2025)

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

- Scope 1: 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 8 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 8 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 1,654 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 1,654 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 1,662 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 1,662 tCO2e**

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

### 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 | 1 | 0 | 611 | 187.81 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1,509 | 233.41 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 1,745 | 263.61 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1,593 | 312.4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 1,654 | 1,654 | 314.53 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from our product packaging. (source: Packaging, target: Q2 2022, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from precious metals used in our manufacturing. (source: Raw materials, target: Q4 2022, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions associated with our packaging. (source: Packaging, target: Q1 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions from air freight. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q1 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — Transition all electricity to wind and solar through our electric utility in our NYC office and showroom. (source: Electricity, target: Q2 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 25% of our lab grown diamonds to recycled diamonds across our wedding band collection. (source: Raw materials, target: Q4 2024, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Source raw materials closer to manufacturing to reduce miles traveled by 99% across all solid wedding band products. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q2 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce waste from single-use plastics through removing poly bags from our production workflow in our NYC office. (source: Operational waste, target: Q2 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition diamonds to SCS-007 certified lab-grown diamonds across engagement ring product lines (source: Raw materials, target: 2026, completion: 25%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 100% of 3D-printer filament to Recycled PLA across all product development prototyping (source: Raw materials, target: 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a pre-tax commuter benefits program for all employees to reduce commuting emissions. (source: Implement a pre-tax commuter benefits program for all employees, target: 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 100% of plastic sleeves to recycled paper sleeves across all packaging for certified diamonds. (source: Packaging, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $24,939.68

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $4,392.28
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $3,325
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [OC] Donation to Clean Air Task Force (Climate policy advocacy, Market Transformation Initiatives): $825
- [OC] Change Climate Project Guided Support (Net-zero consulting services, Planning, Research & Development): $2,500
- [VCA] Purchasing 100% recycled gold (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $3,740
- [VCA] Low-carbon electricity at the NYC office and showroom (Low-carbon electricity, Energy Procurement & Production): $652.28
- [BVC] Loess Hills Regional Sanitary Landfill (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $17,222.4 — type: Landfill Gas, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2022, location: USA, provider: STX

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