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Church and Dwight Offsets Carbon Through Trees
When one of America’s oldest companies set the goal to be carbon-neutral by 2025, they turned to Arbor Day Carbon to have a global impact.
Category
Carbon
Topic
Corporate Partnerships
Location
Mississippi Alluvial Valley
Church & Dwight’s Ask
With heritage in conservation efforts, Church & Dwight launched their mission in 2017 to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025. However, after two years of energy reduction initiatives, they were searching for opportunities to reach carbon neutrality in a more economically viable way.
Their next frontier was focused on offsetting, primarily through forestry carbon credits and renewable energy credits (RECs) — and they needed a partner to help them navigate the path forward.
Arbor Day Foundation’s Answer
To ensure Church & Dwight would meet its target, the Arbor Day Foundation examined the source of their carbon offset challenges — finding fossil fuels and corporate travel as the primary culprits. And since RECs fail to offset fossil fuels, the Arbor Day Foundation created a program that filled the gap.
The Arbor Day Foundation used Church & Dwight’s offsetting program to not only reinforce their long-time support of wildlife conservation — but also target an area of high need: restoring degraded crop lands in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley.
Impact
52K
Metric tons of carbon offset
372%
Higher than the previous year
1
Compensation for 1 year's worth of CO2 produced by Church & Dwight's headquarters and two other facilities
