# Sunski

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2020 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Fashion + Apparel
**Website:** https://sunski.com
**Sustainability page:** https://sunski.com/blogs/news/sustainability-at-sunski-doing-our-part-to-save-the-planet

## Sustainability story

We believe that sustainability is more than just a single initiative or material choice undertaken by a company. Serious Sustainability is a holistic way of conducting business that permeates every facet of our operations, marketing, and relationships. We require a high standard of environmentalism from our suppliers, our partners, our retailers and-- most of all-- ourselves.

## Emissions (2025)

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

- Scope 1: 2 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 1 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 1 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 675 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 675 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 677 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 677 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 | 6.41 |
| 2020 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 9.36 |
| 2021 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 6.09 |
| 2022 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 6.14 |
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 2.56 |
| 2024 | 2 | 1 | 675 | 2.73 |

## Reduction plans

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

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — We will reduce emissions resulting from upstream shipping by reducing our reliance on air freight for our product by better planning our production and allowing enough lead time to ship product by boat. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q1 2022, completion: 68%)
- **Scope 3** — We will reduce the proportion of inbound freight that we ship by air cargo, instead relying on more efficient sea cargo to transport our goods.  With the global cargo chaos in 2021, we moved backwards on this metric as we shipped more cargo via air. (source: Upstream shipping, target: Q4 2023, completion: 68%)
- **Scope 3** — We will use sustainable textile dying materials on all our new textile products releasing in 2023 to reduce water waste and unsustainable dying processes. (source: Operational waste, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce emissions from business travel by instituting new policies about the # of attendees at trade shows to three (source: Business travel, target: Q4 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce emissions from employee commuting. (source: Employee commuting, target: Q4 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Reduce emissions from materials used in cases and cleaning cloths. (source: Goods & services, target: Q2 2021, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We are continuing to reduce our reliance on virgin materials. We are switching all our sunglasses hardcase production to recycled canvas, produced without dyes. We are switching all our cleaning cloths to recycled cloth made without dye. (source: Raw materials, target: Q1 2022, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — Transition 100% electricity to renewable hydro, solar and wind through our electric utility in our San Francisco office headquarters. (source: Electricity, target: Q1 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Implement a policy for low-carbon business travel to better understand our business flight patterns through detailed logging of all air miles travelled for all team members, to determine where we can reduce unnecessary travel and create travel efficiencies. (source: Business travel, target: Q4 2023, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Redesign our paper packaging across all our retail boxes to use FSC certified paper material in 100% of our new packaging production. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We will gain a complete understanding of our primary contract factory's electric energy generation sources, and develop a strategy for shifting power consumption to renewable sources, or on-site energy generation. (source: Supply chain energy use, target: Q2 2025, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — We will track downstream shipping as a factor of weight X distance traveled, rather than through cost, so that we can better measure this emission source. (source: Downstream shipping, target: 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — We will track employee flights in actual mileage traveled, rather than by flight cost, to get a better understanding of this emission output. (source: Business travel, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $10,163.25

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $4,275
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $1,523.25
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Sunski Recycled Polycarbonate Resin (RCPC) (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $4,275
- [OC] POW Elect Climate Champions Initiative (Climate policy advocacy, Market Transformation Initiatives): $1,523.25
- [BVC] SeaTrees Carbon Credit (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $4,365 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2024, location: Cambodia, provider: SeaTrees

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