# Paravel

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed (expired), 2024
**Certified since:** 2021 (most recent: 2024)
**Industry:** Travel + Transportation
**Website:** https://tourparavel.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://tourparavel.com/en-fr/pages/sustainability

## Sustainability story

At Paravel, we create top-quality travel goods that are as easy on the eye as they are on the Earth, but that is just part of the story. Sustainability is at the core of every decision we make, and we do our part in the fight against climate change by focusing on three key issues: reducing and offsetting carbon emissions, incorporating upcycled and eco-certified materials throughout every product detail, and planting trees in depleted ecosystems. Better products, better practices, and better partnership - always.

## Emissions (2024)

**Methodology:** Paravel's emissions inventory uses a mix of spending and activity-based data. Paravel 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): 5 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 2,797 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 0 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 2,803 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 | 25 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 4,594 | 89.29 |
| 2021 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6,721 | 45.96 |
| 2022 | 15 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 4,852 | 36.54 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2,797 | 37.93 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — Audit materials in our hero product line (Aviator) to decrease the use of virgin material in the body to under 5%. (source: Raw materials, target: Q1 2022, completion: 90%)
- **Scope 3** — Decrease the use of air freight to less than 25% of total freight. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q2 2022, completion: 80%)
- **Scope 3** — Move at least 20% of our factories and/or production from Asia to the Americas to increase land transportation. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q3 2023, completion: 10%)
- **Scope 3** — Optimize inventory position and implement process changes at our 3PL to consolidate > 90% of personalized and non-personalized units to ship to end customers together, "nesting" items inside one another. (source: Packaging, target: Q1 2023, completion: 75%)
- **Scope 3** — Redesign recycled cardboard across packaging for individual products to reduce packaging by 30% through nesting suitcases. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2023, completion: 50%)
- **Scope 3** — Decrease the use of air shipping to less than 20% of total shipping. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q1 2024, completion: 80%)
- **Scope 3** — Optimize freight container space in the inventory management process with the goal to have >85% of containers ship full to decrease the total number of shipments as compared to inventory (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q4 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Audit materials in our canvas line to decrease the use of virgin material in the body to under 20% (source: Raw materials, target: Q4 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2024)

**Total funding:** $26,908.8

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

### Projects
- [BVC] 400 MW Solar Power Project at Bhadla, Rajasthan (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $13,468.8 — type: Renewable Energy, registry: Gold Standard, vintage: 2021, location: India, provider: Gold Standard
- [BVC] Bhesada Wind Power Project in Rajastan (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $13,440 — type: Renewable Energy, registry: Gold Standard, vintage: 2021, location: India, provider: Gold Standard

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