# Rizos Curls

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2022 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Health + Beauty
**Website:** https://rizoscurls.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://rizoscurls.com/pages/rizos-curls-sustainability-new

## Sustainability story

Curls, Community & Culture are at the heart of Rizos Curls, which is why we are committed to sustainability efforts, clean ingredients, conscious packaging & doing our part to offset our overall environmental impact & help create a better world to live in.

## Emissions (2025)

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

- Scope 1: 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 6 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 6 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 2,116 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 2,116 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 2,123 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 2,123 tCO2e**

**Emissions intensity:** Per dollar of revenue — dollar of revenue

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 (loc) | Scope 2 (mkt) | Scope 3 (loc) | Scope 3 (mkt) | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 2,891 | 0.27 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 1,638 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1,641 | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 2,116 | 2,116 | 0.11 |

## Reduction plans

### Science-aligned targets
- We commit to reducing 2021 Scope 1 and 2 emissions 50% by 2030. (completion: 40%)

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce emissions associated with purchased goods and services. (source: Operational waste, target: Q2 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We plan to reduce the use of air freight for shipping. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q2 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Manufacture goods closer to our consumers to reduce miles traveled by 10%. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Eliminate all unnecessary unit cartons by 50% across all packaging. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 10% of customer shipments to a lower carbon emissions shipping method. (source: Downstream shipping, target: Q4 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Redesign plastic bottles across packaging for bottles & tops to decrease carbon emissions by 10% (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 50% of air freight  to ocean freight across all product components (source: Upstream shipping, target: 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Eliminate all physical bundled unit cartons across digital product sets (source: Packaging, target: 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition from 25% of expedited shipping to lower carbon emissions shipping method across all customer shipping orders (source: Downstream shipping, target: 2025, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce flight-based business travel by 10 for all employees by incentivizing virtual meetings (source: Business travel, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $31,850.58

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $12,445.58
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $2,500
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Carbon Neutral Shipments (Efficient logistics, Efficiency & Electrification): $12,445.58
- [OC] Guided Support fee (Capacity-building & change management (e.g. staff costs), Planning, Research & Development): $2,500
- [BVC] Southern Cardamom REDD+ (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $16,905 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2021, location: Cambodia, provider: SeaTrees

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