# SARDINE

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2024 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Fashion + Apparel

## Emissions (2025)

**Methodology:** SARDINE's inventory uses spending data to estimate GHG emissions. SARDINE 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): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 0 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 92 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 92 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 92 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 92 tCO2e**

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

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 28.7 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 26.29 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — Eliminate all plastic packaging for eyewear frames. (source: Raw materials, target: Q2 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Redesign recycled cardboard packaging boxes across consumer shipments to reduce shipping box size by 30%. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 30% of air freight to Ground freight across all textile sourcing (source: Upstream shipping, target: 2025, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — Source raw materials closer to manufacturing to reduce miles traveled by 70% across all textile sourcing for accessory components (source: Upstream shipping, target: 2025, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $1,622.5

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $227.5
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Sway Seaweed Polybag Acquisition (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $227.5
- [BVC] Southern Cardamom REDD+ (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $1,395 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2024, location: Cambodia, provider: SeaTrees

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