# Swagger

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2024 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Professional Services
**Website:** https://giveswagger.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://giveswagger.com/our-impact

## Sustainability story

We are Swagger - Your one-stop shop for meaningful swag.
Woman-owned and a 1% for the Planet Member, we’re on a mission to infuse meaning and emotion into swag you’ll be proud to give. It’s got to be covetable, cool, and sustainable.

## Emissions (2025)

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

- Scope 1: 19 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 65 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 65 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 374 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 374 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 459 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 459 tCO2e**

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

### Emissions history (tCO2e, intensity as disclosed)
| Year | Scope 1 | Scope 2 | Scope 3 | Intensity |
|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2023 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.1 |
| 2024 | 19 | 65 | 374 | 0.05 |

## Reduction plans

### Science-aligned targets
- We commit to reducing 2023 Scope 1 & 2 emissions 50% by 2030 (completion: 0%)

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — Reduce emissions from project packaging, fillers, and other paper products by sourcing at least 20% post-consumer or reusable materials over the next twelve months. (source: Packaging, target: Q4 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 2** — Create a remote employee emission-reduction program that will incentivize and fund home office energy-saving initiatives. Program to include installing energy-saving LED bulbs to reduce emissions with the goal to reduce 2025 employee electricity emissions from the previous year. (source: Electricity, target: Q1 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 80% of polyethylene envelopes to 100% recycled polyethylene envelopes sourced from post-consumer, post-industrial, and ocean-bound materials across downsteam shipments (source: Packaging, target: 2026, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — We are a sustainably-focused swag company so we are going to make sure we walk the walk by requiring 100% of company branded swag and customer gifts are made from recycled or sustainable materials. (source: Company Swag, target: 2026, completion: 50%)
- **Scope 1** — Implement energy conservation measures to reduce consumption by 20% by mandating thermostat scheduling (on/off for AC in the summer with clearly defined low temperate and auto adjust at 5:00) in our Arizona facility (source: Energy at offices or controlled facilities, target: 2025, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Create a decorator selection policy by location and proximity to blank supplier as a way to reduce upstream shipping distance of our most utilized goods and partners. (source: Upstream shipping, target: 2026, completion: 0%)
- **Scope 3** — By Q4 2026, we will require that at least 50% of product SKUs offered to clients be made from recycled or sustainably certified materials. (source: By Q4 2026, we will require that at least 50% of product SKUs offered to clients be made from recycled or sustainably certified materials., target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $7,805.25

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $2,160
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $1,032.75
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Recycled Mailer Bags (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $2,160
- [OC] BEE License (Software, Planning, Research & Development): $1,032.75
- [BVC] Blandin Native American Hardwoods Conservation (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $4,612.5 — type: Forestry, registry: American Carbon Registry, vintage: 2024, location: USA, provider: Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)

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Source: https://explore.changeclimate.org/brand/swagger
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