CODE ON CARBON
One of the new Core Values of the company is assessing the true PlanetaryCost® of our business. In essence, we acknowledge that we have a duty to measure the true cost to the planet from conducting our business operations.
We have identified that the carbon emissions of our products, operations and supply chains constitute the major part of the planetary impact that we are responsible for. As a result we have instituted a strategic road map beginning in 2014 of how Traffi deals with carbon emissions. Today we call this the Traffi Code on Carbon.
Calculate
Traffi calculates the carbon emissions of its operations, its logistics and its products. We believe that we are the only safety glove company in the world to have calculated the majority of our products’ footprints (with the remaining in progress) - from a cradle to grave boundary. This means from the harvesting of the rubber to the end of life disposal of the final product, our external partners have taken all the relevant embodied emissions into account using the most up to date emission factors from the ecoinvent database and using state-of-the-art SimaPro software tools for modelling. Also, Traffi's organisational emissions are assessed in accordance with the globally accepted standards - The Greenhouse Gas Protocol and the ISO 14064-1.
Confirm
Another of Traffi's core values is Evidentiary Proof. As such Traffi strives to achieve Transparency in our claims on carbon as well as to have independent 3rd party verification and certification of all our claims. As such all our product based carbon calculations are third-party verified and assessed to ISO 14067. Our organisational footprint is also independently verified by them in accordance with the ISO 14064-1 standard. This focus on proving the integrity and comprehensiveness of our calculations is mandatory to avoid any semblance of Greenwashing - which has become rampant in our industry today.
Curtail
At Traffi we don't believe that merely measuring our emissions is enough. Climate change is impacting every aspect of our day-to-day lives and responsible corporates have a duty to substantially reduce the emissions that they are responsible for. That is why Traffi took the bold step of committing to the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTI), becoming the first safety glove company to have committed to the SBTI's near term and long term reduction targets and the first to have its targets approved by SBTI's governing body. Today we have already achieved a substantial reduction in our emissions with over 40% reduction from our baselines already achieved, with a 2030 near-term target of 46% for Scope 1 and 2.
Compensate
However, at Traffi we believe in tangible action now, and will not rely only on potential future reductions - as many companies are doing. Simply submitting to SBTI and committing to reduce emissions at a future date will not sufficiently address the current day-to-day emissions that take place as a part of our operations. Therefore Traffi compensates for all unavoidable emissions every year by choosing a combination of internationally registered carbon offsets from external sources and independently verified carbon insets from within our supply chains to neutralise both our organisational and product related emissions. We are the first safety glove company to offer a carbon neutral safety glove range and the first to offer a carbon neutral disposable glove.