Three natural product companies stepped up to the challenge of improving their packaging's climate impacts by participating in the Climate Collaborative's 2019 Packaging Climate Emissions Optimization Project. The Climate Collaborative's February webinar, led by project partner and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) expert Trayak, highlights the multi-layered results of these three projects.

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The Climate Collaborative kicks off its 2020 programming with an in-depth look at the regenerative standards landscape, featuring speakers from the Savory Institute, Soil Carbon Index, and Regenerative Organic Alliance. As regenerative agricultural practices continue to ignite the imagination and goals of the natural product industry’s climate forward-thinking companies, a handful of regenerative agricultural standards have been rising to the top.

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This December, The Climate Collaborative, AHPA, and ABC's Sustainable Herbs Program partnered to host a special introductory webinar for herbal and supplement companies on how you can join in creating a collaborative industry pathway to reversing climate change and get access to free resources that can support your own climate action journey.

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The Climate Collaborative is helping companies in our community build effective, action-focused dialogues on climate change through our new Consumer Engagement Working Group. Our November webinar featured Guru and leading companies in the industry who shared best practices in consumer engagement, the CC's working group plans for 2020, and concrete examples of successes and lessons learned from leading companies in the industry.

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In this panel at SupplySide West, Josef Brinckmann, Traditional Medicinals Research Fellow, and Rupa Das, VP of Global Quality & Compliance for BI Nutraceuticals, join Ann Armbrecht of ABC's Sustainable Herbs Program and Holly Johnson of AHPA to discuss the challenges and opportunities of cross-stakeholder collaboration in building sustainability into supply chain networks. 

In this panel at SupplySide West, you'll hear from experts Sara Newmark of MegaFood, Matt Dybala of Herb Pharm, and the Climate Collaborative, on how health and nutrition companies are making climate action core to their mission-- through regenerative agricultural practices, waste reductions, and more--and how doing so has not only reduced these companies' climate impacts, but improved their business relationships with customers. 

Most companies' emissions are concentrated within their supply chains, and in our October webinar, we shared practical tools and examples of how you can be ramping up your supply chain mitigation efforts. 

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“Taking action” is the most critical step to combatting climate change, and these actions can become more refined and impactful through use of Climate Action Plans. Our September webinar de-mystifies the science and art of Climate Action Plans. Presented by SFTA and climate planning and greenhouse gas calculation experts Good Company, Analysis. Action. Repeat. distills Climate Action Plans into clear, actionable steps for the natural products industry.

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Join us for a special August ReCAP session providing hands-on practical tools for small-and-medium-sized retailers to reduce their food waste in-store. Food waste expert Dana Gunders will present a core set of best practices on food waste, and share our trends on how NCG co-ops, INFRA members stores, and other independent grocers are currently taking on food waste. This project was enabled by the generous sponsorship of KeHE.

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Have you ever wanted to conduct an assessment of carbon farming practices in your supply chain? Then our Rooted Community’s July session is for you! We take a frank look into the journey of developing and implementing self-assessment tools to measure carbon-farming and regenerative agriculture practices.