Yoko Co Still Continues to Remain Carbon Neutral

Yoko Co is proud to announce that we continue remain committed to continued carbon neutrality. As we’ve mentioned over the last several years we’re incredibly aware of the impact our company has on the environment. We are keenly aware of how that impact grows as we do, and continue to be proactive in finding and creating mechanisms that enable us to keep this impact as low as possible. As you can see, we were able to avoid all scope 1 and 2 emissions, and continue to work on ways to decrease scope 3 emissions.

As we have done in years past, we support multiple projects and technologies to help offset those emissions we cannot avoid.

In the interest of transparency (and an ongoing shameless attempt to increase societal peer pressure) we like to share our carbon emissions data. Our carbon emissions have grown as we add personnel, though we have managed to decrease our emissions per employee.

Our total 2023 emissions were 36.6 tonnes, as broken down below:

If you’re unfamiliar with becoming Carbon Neutral, it is the process of reducing your carbon emissions, which are broken into 3 scopes. Then offsetting (removing, canceling out) those you can’t help emitting. Carbon Trust’s brief provides more detailed information.

To achieve our goals we use offsets from Verra, and have included our retirement entries below:

• 13 Tonnes via support for Hydroelectric Power in Indonesia
• 18 Tonnes via destruction and repurposing of Methane in Thailand
• 6 Tonnes via REDD+ Forest Conservation and Replenishment in Zimbabwe

In addition to remaining carbon neutral, we’ve continue to take it a step further by offsetting our team’s personal carbon footprints too. This is done via a platform we built in collaboration with GWU’s EEMI, called Carbon Off.

You can check it out if you’d like to offset your employees’ personal carbon footprints as an employee benefit.