Ministry of Supply

This company is a Climate Neutral Supporting Brand. They have provided a charitable donation to support Climate Neutral's work. (This donation does not change the requirements of their verification).

Brand

Ministry of Supply

Ministry of Supply

Industry

Fashion + Apparel

First Certified

2019

Current Certification Year

2022

Categories

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Sustainability Story

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What is Climate Neutrality

A state in which human activities result in no net effect on the climate system. Requires balancing of residual greenhouse gas emissions with reductions or removals. All Climate Neutral Certified brands must meet climate neutrality standards for measuring, offsetting, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from making and delivering products and services.

This certification covers business activities and operations for the following brands :

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Ministry of Supply achieved Climate Neutral Certification as part of 's certification process. 's measurement, offsetting and reduction plans fully account for Ministry of Supply's 2021 emissions

01 Measure

Ministry of Supply measured Scope 1, 2 and 3 cradle-to-customer emissions following categories and approaches established in the Climate Neutral standards.

GHG Scope 1 ?
GHG Protocol Scope 1

Emissions from energy used in buildings, fleets, and equipment.

1 tCO2e

GHG Scope 2 ?

2 tCO2e

GHG Scope 3 ?
GHG Protocol Scope 3

Emissions from raw materials, manufacturing, shipping, air travel, and other activities in the supply chain.

848 tCO2e

Total Emissions ?
Total Carbon Emissions

The sum of Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

851 tCO2e

02 Offset

Ministry of Supply invested in projects outside of their value chain to compensate for all of their measured carbon emissions. This step supports their climate neutrality designation, and enables Ministry of Supply to take responsibility for historical emissions that can’t be reduced.

Total Investment in Carbon Credits

$10,382

Ministry of Supply's credits came from:

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Avoided Deforestation ?

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Solar ?

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Reforestation ?

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Improved Forest Management ?

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Wind ?

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Biomass ?

Emissions Offset ?
Offset equivalency

For reference, reducing a footprint by 1000 tonnes is roughly equal to removing 230 passenger vehicles from the road for a year.

851 tCO2e

03 Reduce

Ministry of Supply has set targets and identified actions to reduce their emissions from operations and their supply chain. These actions will enable Ministry of Supply to emit fewer emissions in the future.

Mid Term Targets

Ministry of Supply has committed to reducing emissions by .

This target is aligned with global trajectories to limit climate warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Mid Term Targets

This target is aligned with global trajectories to limit climate warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Reduction Actions

Ministry of Supply is implementing a Reduction Action Plan to reduce emissions from within its own operations and supply chain.

Current Year Reduction Actions

01

What We’re Reducing

We plan to continue reducing our virgin polyester consumption by transitioning more of our products to use our flagship fabric, Apollo, which is made from 66% recycle polyester.

How We'll Reduce It

We have set to have at least 50% of our product line be made of 50% or more recycled content by new styles launched.

02

What We’re Reducing

We seek to reduce our emissions associated with inbound freight, to 25%

How We'll Reduce It

We will reduce air freight which has 9x higher emissions than sea freight, and have moved our warehouse to the West Coat to reduce backwards shipping of product and longer lead times. Air Freight (2020) was 29%, (2021) was 27%.

03

What We’re Reducing

How We'll Reduce It

04

What We’re Reducing

How We'll Reduce It

In Progress Reductions

01

100%

What We’re Reducing

Air Freight Shipments to Sea Freight. We've isolated this as one of our biggest opportunities where air freight was contributed 3.4KgCO2e per unit compared to 0.4 via sea.

How We'll Reduce It

Moving warehouses from US North East Coast to port of entry in LA, this will reduce backwards shipping, and cut lead times by 2 weeks, making sea-shipping more similar to air freight in terms of time to product launch.

02

2%

What We’re Reducing

Reduction in Virgin Polyester in products from 36% to 50% of all new products produced. This is our most carbon-intensive material.

How We'll Reduce It

We are redeveloping all of our polyester fabrics to contain more than 50% recycled material content. Based on production in Taiwan, this reduces emissions by over 50%.

03

72%

What We’re Reducing

Overall shipping emissions

How We'll Reduce It

Increase use of sea-freight

04

22%

What We’re Reducing

Emissions from fabric production

How We'll Reduce It

By using solar power in fabric manufacturing

Completed Reductions

01 Measure

Ministry of Supply measured Scope 1, 2 and 3 cradle-to-customer emissions following categories and approaches established in the Climate Neutral standards.

02 Offset

Ministry of Supply invested in projects outside of their value chain to compensate for all of their measured carbon emissions. This step supports their climate neutrality designation, and enables Ministry of Supply to take responsibility for historical emissions that can’t be reduced.

03 Reduce

Ministry of Supply is implementing a Reduction Action Plan to reduce emissions from within its own operations and supply chain.