# Petaluma

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2026
**Certified since:** 2021 (most recent: 2026)
**Industry:** Food + Beverage
**Website:** https://www.feedpetaluma.com
**Sustainability page:** https://www.feedpetaluma.com/pages/sustainability

## Sustainability story

Petaluma is a sustainable dog nutrition brand with an ambitious goal to challenge the pet food industry's reliance on animal agriculture. Petaluma is driving forward the nutritional science and ingredient innovation to replace factory-farmed animal protein with nutritionally complete plant-based dog nutrition that requires far less land, water, and greenhouse gas emissions. Backed by science and formulated by veterinarians, Petaluma provides all the nutrients dogs need for a healthy and balanced diet. Petaluma is a Certified B Corporation and a member of 1% for the Planet and Climate Neutral.

## Emissions (2026)

**Methodology:** Petaluma's inventory uses spending data to estimate GHG emissions. Petaluma attests to the accuracy of their data inputs and the Change Climate Project team reviews the submission for compliance with the Standard.

- Scope 1: 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 2 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 2 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 498 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 498 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 500 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 500 tCO2e**

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

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 450 |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 10.59 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 5.21 |
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 3.52 |
| 2024 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 3.04 |
| 2025 | 0 | 2 | 498 | 3.83 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce our footprint by buying products from environmentally responsible brands. (source: Operational waste, target: Q4 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce commute-related emissions by being remote-first / WFH friendly as a business. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q4 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We will transition to a new dog food bag that uses only one type of plastic which makes them less carbon intensive while also increasing the recyclability of the item by most facilities. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2022, completion: 55%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to optimize our shipping to reduce transit time and related emissions from downstream shipping. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q1 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Replace non-certified organic sweet potato in our Sweet Potato Jerky (dog treat) with a certified organic sweet potato provider. (source: Raw materials, target: Q4 2023, completion: 75%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce emissions from packaging by providing customer education on the bag itself and/or website instead of in paper inserts and booklets. (source: Packaging, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce flight-based business travel for all employees by only attending industry conferences every other year. (source: Business travel, target: Q1 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Develop a new lower-carbon dog nutrition product to reduce emissions associated with animal agriculture in the pet food industry across shelf-stable dog nutrition. (source: Raw materials, target: Q2 2025, completion: 30%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy for low-carbon commuting to incentivize biking, walking, or using public transit for All U.S. employees (source: Employee commuting, target: 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Consolidate manufacturing runs into larger, less frequent runs so we ship full truckloads (versus LTL). (source: Upstream shipping, target: 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Open a third 3PL facility to cover more of the southeast / Texas and reduce shipping distances (improving overall efficiency) (source: Downstream shipping, target: 2027, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2026)

**Total funding:** $45,846.5

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $45,846.5
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Replacing animal protein with low-emission, plant-based protein (Adult Dog Food Formula) (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $36,184.32
- [VCA] Replacing animal protein with low-emission, plant-based protein (Senior Dog Food Formula) (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $9,662.18

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