Carbon Footprint

The total amount of greenhouse gases released to make, move, and deliver a product — measured as carbon dioxide equivalent (CO₂e). For vanilla, that covers everything from growing the beans to shipping the finished extract.

Carbon dioxide equivalent. Several gases contribute to warming, so they are converted into a single comparable unit — the equivalent amount of CO₂ — making it easy to add up and compare across stages.

A standard way to sort emissions by source. Scope 1 is what we burn directly, like fuel at our facility. Scope 2 is the electricity we buy. Scope 3 is everything else in the chain — farming, freight, packaging — and for vanilla it is usually the largest share.

The unit behind freight emissions: moving one tonne of goods one kilometer. Multiply it by an emission factor for the transport mode and you get the carbon cost of a shipment. It is why shipping by ocean instead of air makes such a large difference.

A standard figure for how much CO₂e an activity produces — for example, the carbon per tonne-kilometer of ocean versus air freight. We use recognized published factors so our estimates can be checked against the same references everyone else uses.

An early, indicative figure built from standard reference data rather than a fully audited measurement. It is honest about its own limits — useful for planning and comparison while we build a verified baseline, but not presented as a certified result.

Because a sustainability claim is only worth as much as the data behind it. We would rather show you where our numbers come from — and where they are still estimates — than make a green promise we cannot trace. That is the whole point of this page.