# Xocolatl Chocolate

**Certification:** The Climate Label Certified — Completed, 2025
**Certified since:** 2023 (most recent: 2025)
**Industry:** Food + Beverage
**Website:** https://xocolatlchocolate.com/
**Sustainability page:** https://xocolatlchocolate.com/pages/sustainability

## Sustainability story

Environmental concerns drove our passion for starting Xocolatl Chocolate. We recognized ethically and sustainably shade-grown cacao was preferable to practices like pineapple or cattle ranching in the rainforest. In 2021, we conducted a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) with the help of one of our former chocolate makers who was pursuing environmental studies at Georgia Tech. Armed with insights from the LCA, we have been dedicated to decreasing and offsetting our footprint through various measures. These include purchasing carbon credits and carbon capture, utilizing renewable energy credits, and implementing composting. We’re committed to continuing to build a chocolate company that makes as small an impact on the environment as possible.

## Emissions (2025)

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

- Scope 1: 7 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (location-based): 107 tCO2e
- Scope 2 (market-based): 107 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (location-based): 480 tCO2e
- Scope 3 (market-based): 480 tCO2e
- **Total (location-based): 594 tCO2e**
- **Total (market-based): 594 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 |
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 0.12 |
| 2023 | 5 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 303 | 0.56 |
| 2024 | 7 | 107 | 107 | 480 | 480 | 0.63 |

## Reduction plans

### Reduction action plans
- **Scope 3** — Xocolatl Chocolate will create and implement a system to measure all waste from our factory, office and retail shop and set a waste reduction goal by July 2024. (source: Operational waste, target: Q2 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition 100% single use plastic to fully compostable packages across all product lines currently using plastic pouches by January 2024. (source: Packaging, target: Q2 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Transition our warm weather shipping insulation to compostable or recyclable material across all consumer and wholesale packaging. (source: Packaging, target: Q2 2025, completion: 25%)
- **Scope 2** — Transition 100% electric power to solar through our electric utility in our retail store. (source: Electricity, target: Q4 2024, completion: 100%)
- **Scope 3** — Redesign plastic bonbon trays across bonbon packaging to recycled cardboard by 100 (source: Packaging, target: 2026, completion: 0%)

## Climate funding (2025)

**Total funding:** $12,345

**Carbon fee:** $15/tCO2e

**Spend by category:**
- VCA (Voluntary Carbon / Reductions): $11,760
- OC (Organizational Commitments): $0
- BVC (Beyond Value Chain): n/a

### Projects
- [VCA] Compostable Packaging (Low-carbon material purchase, Materials & Manufacturing): $11,760
- [BVC] Manoa REDD+ (Carbon credit, Voluntary Carbon Market): $585 — type: Forestry, registry: Verified Carbon Standard, vintage: 2018, location: Brazil, provider: Pachama

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