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Sterling Rope

Climate Neutral Certified Label

category

Gear + Lifestyle

first certified

2021

current certification year

2023

About Climate Neutral Certification

Wherever you see the Climate Neutral Certified label, it means the company is accountable for its greenhouse gas emissions. To earn the label, a company must annually measure cradle-to-customer emissions, implement specific action plans to reduce emissions, and invest in high quality, verified carbon credits.

The certification requirements are detailed in the rigorous, peer-reviewed Climate Neutral Certified Standard. Each company’s application is reviewed for compliance by Change Climate’s certification team.

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Emissions

Sterling Rope's emissions inventory uses a mix of spend- and activity-based data. Sterling Rope attests to the accuracy of their data inputs and the Change Climate team reviews the submission for compliance with our Standard.

4,164 tCO₂e

Roughly equal to driving 929 gas-powered cars for one year

02

Reduction Plans

Sterling Rope has adopted near-term action plans to reduce GHG emissions within the next 12-24 months.

Active

Source of emissions

Electricity

Action

We plan to reduce our emissions from electricity by purchasing solar power energy from one or more community solar projects that are current ...read more

Status

In progress

Complete By

Q1 2022

Scope

Scope 2

Source of emissions

Operational waste

Action

We plan to reduce emissions from our purchased goods and services through leveraging bluesign® data.

Status

In progress

Complete By

Q1 2024

Scope

Scope 3

Source of emissions

Packaging

Action

We plan to replace dynamic rope packaging polybags with a recyclable (paper) bag for 100% of our packaging. We also plan to replace syntheti ...read more

Status

In progress

Complete By

Q4 2023

Scope

Scope 3

Source of emissions

Product end-of-life

Action

We plan to reduce the waste associated with the recycling of our products.

Status

In progress

Complete By

Q4 2023

Scope

Not covered by Climate Neutral

Source of emissions

Raw materials

Action

Transition 25% of nylon used to recycled materials across our Sterling bag line of products.

Status

In progress

Complete By

Q3 2025

Scope

Scope 3

Source of emissions

Packaging

Action

Transition 100% plastic bags to biodegradable bags or other environmentally friendly material across all ropes and cord currently packed in ...read more

Status

In progress

Complete By

Q3 2025

Scope

Scope 3

Completed

Source of emissions

Electricity

Action

We plan to purchase renewable energy from Maine Green Power.

Status

Completed

Complete By

Q3 2021

Scope

Scope 2

Source of emissions

Electricity

Action

We plan to reduce energy usage from our manufacturing operations.

Status

Completed

Complete By

Q4 2022

Scope

Scope 2

03

Compensation

Sterling Rope addressed last year’s emissions by buying and retiring an equal amount of high quality, verified carbon and clean energy credits.

Emissions accounted for

4,163 tCO₂e

Roughly equal to keeping 4,662,560 pounds of carbon in the ground

Total investment

$36,878

Project types

Reforestation

Type

Reforestation

Description

Projects that restore degraded or deforested ecosystems.

Avoid deforestation

Type

Avoid deforestation

Description

Projects that reduce the risk of deforestation in important forest ecosystems.

Sterling has always been a sustainable rope company. Our goal is to minimize waste wherever possible. All our waste fiber is recycled, all our cardboard is repurposed, our oils and cleaners are captured and disposed of properly, and plastic bags used to protect our yarn coming in are used to protect our ropes and spools going out. We are going above and beyond the work we are already doing by becoming Climate Neutral Certified. We are honored to work with Climate Neutral to measure our 2020 carbon footprint, offset it in its entirety by purchasing quality carbon credits, and reduce our emissions moving forward.

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