# Pela Case

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2020 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Everyday essentials
**Website:** https://pelacase.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://pelacase.com/sustainability-strategy/our-footprint

## Sustainability story

Pela believes business can be a force for good. We make everyday products without everyday waste, designing for a future where sustainability isn't a compromise, it's the standard.
Climate change demands more than good intentions. It takes businesses and consumers willing to own their impact and act on it. We're not perfect, but we're committed to better. And we know better happens faster when we work together. Pela exists to build a waste-free future and inspire a global community of people making a real difference for the planet. Learn more about our products at pelacase.com

## Emissions (2025)

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

- Scope 1: 9 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 2 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 2 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 848 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 848 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 859 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 859 tCO2e**

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

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2019 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0 |
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 1.72 |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 2.02 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.89 |
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.88 |
| 2024 | 9 | 2 | 848 | 0.91 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce the emissions associated with shipping our products to our customers. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q4 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — We plan to increase efficiencies in water consumption at our Kelowna manufacturing facility. (source: Electricity, target: Q3 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce downstream transport emissions (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q2 2020, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce waste from conventional phone cases, and upcycled/compostable Pela phone cases (source: Operational waste, target: Q4 2020, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce emissions from third party manufacturers (source: Supply chain energy use, target: Q2 2020, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce emissions from Chinese manufacturing facility (source: Supply chain energy use, target: Q3 2020, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Decreasing upstream shipping emissions by 10% through expanding our local manufacturing operations and streamlining shipping operations. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q2 2025, completion: 80%)
- **Scope 3** — Working with our vendors to reuse scrap materials and reduce dependence on new raw material usage by up to 20%. (source: Raw materials, target: Q4 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Improving inventory efficiency by 75% through developing a “produce-on-demand” function to reduce unnecessary raw material consumption and manufacturing waste. (source: Raw materials, target: Q3 2024, completion: 90%)
- **Scope 3** — We will redesign packaging across all D2C and retail packaging to reduce excess packaging (inserts, envelopes, structural support) by 30%. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2025, completion: 10%)
- **Scope 3** — Source raw materials closer to manufacturing to reduce miles traveled 50% across all packaging sourcing and new innovative materials. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q2 2026, completion: 40%)
- **Scope 3** — Manufacture goods closer to our consumers to reduce miles traveled by over 50% across for US orders (source: Downstream shipping, target: 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Redesign Clear Case Product Line  across all new phone models (starting with iPhone 17 series and Samsung Galaxy S26) to to use all locally sourced 100% PCR plastics (source: Raw materials, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $191,174.5

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $186,070.5
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Biopolymer material purchases for 2024 (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $186,070.5
- [BVC] Improved Cookstoves Worldwide (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $5,104 — type: Cookstoves, registry: Gold Standard, vintage: 2024, location: Kenya, provider: ClimatePartner

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