# Ministry of Supply

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed (expired), 2022
**Certified since:** 2020 (most recent: 2022)
**Industry:** Fashion + Apparel
**Website:** https://www.ministryofsupply.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://www.ministryofsupply.com/about/planet

## Sustainability story

Since 2019, we've offset all of our carbon emissions and have been certified Climate Neutral. However, measurement and offsetting won't get us to zero alone—to reach our targets we also have to dramatically reduce our emissions. This past year we've made big strides through innovation and optimization of our supply chain, materials, and manufacturing.

## Emissions (2022)

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

- Scope 1: 1 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 2 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 2,120 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 0 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 2,122 tCO2e**

### Emissions history (tCO2e)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 (loc) | Scope 2 (mkt) | Scope 3 (loc) | Scope 3 (mkt) |
|-|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2019 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2,120 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — Air Freight Shipments to Sea Freight. We've isolated this as one of our biggest opportunities where air freight was contributed 3.4KgCO2e per unit compared to 0.4 via sea. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q4 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduction in Virgin Polyester in products from 36% to 50% of all new products produced. This is our most carbon-intensive material. (source: Raw materials, target: Q4 2021, completion: 55%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to continue reducing our virgin polyester consumption by transitioning more of our products to use our flagship fabric, Apollo, which is made from 66% recycle polyester. (source: Raw materials, target: Q4 2022, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We seek to reduce our emissions associated with inbound freight, to 25% (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q4 2022, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce virgin polyester in products (source: Raw materials, target: Q4 2020, completion: 37%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce emissions from fabric production (source: Supply chain energy use, target: Q4 2020, completion: 22%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce overall shipping emissions (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q4 2020, completion: 72%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a low carbon sourcing/purchasing policy to reduce packaging volume by shifting 30% of our outbound shipments to smaller boxes and eco-mailers. across outbound packaging. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2023, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Eliminate all upstream shipments from daily cross-border trucking by shifting to weekly consolidated trucking to reduce number of trips between port and warehouse. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q4 2023, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2022)

**Total funding:** $0

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

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