# Needed

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2022 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Health + Beauty
**Website:** https://thisisneeded.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://thisisneeded.com/pages/about

## Sustainability story

Needed's mission is to champion nutrition for woman, their families, and our earth.

## Emissions (2025)

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

- Scope 1: 7 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 158 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 158 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 8,432 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 8,432 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 8,597 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 8,597 tCO2e**

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

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 7.12 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 3.92 |
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 3.38 |
| 2024 | 7 | 158 | 8,432 | 3.65 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — Changing out shipper boxes, to reduce material / source better material (source: Packaging, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We'll reduce transport times between manufacturers and our warehouse (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q1 2024, completion: 95%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition all single use plastic in jars or gussets to reusable plastic or jar bottles across product packaging. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2024, completion: 90%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition all plastic shippers to recyclable mailers across consumer shipments. (source: Packaging, target: Q3 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We will find more efficient ways to fulfill goods closer to our consumers to reduce miles traveled by 40% across all shipments by 2026. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q2 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — By Q4 2025, we aim to eliminate 85% of upstream expedited, dedicated shipments of finished goods from our manufacturers to our warehouse. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q4 2025, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Eliminate all single-use plastic across jar lids to complete the transition to PCR for our jar packaging. (source: Packaging, target: 2025, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Reducing shipment distances to customers by 20% (source: Downstream shipping, target: 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition dedicated truckload to less than truckload or consolidated truckloads  across a portion of our upstream shipping throughout our supply chain. (source: Upstream shipping, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $133,356.25

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $54,967.6
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $14,077.4
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [OC] Climate Certification and Packaging Sustainability Projects (Capacity-building & change management (e.g. staff costs), Planning, Research & Development): $11,577.4
- [OC] Guided Support for Climate Neutral (Net-zero consulting services, Planning, Research & Development): $2,500
- [VCA] Transition to PCR Product Packaging (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $54,967.6
- [BVC] A-Gas V12 HFC Reclamation (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $36,537.25 — type: Industrial, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2022, location: USA, provider: Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)
- [BVC] India Solar Power Project (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $27,774 — type: Renewable Energy, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2022, location: India, provider: Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)

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