Climate Change Efforts

Climate Change Efforts Join a company who is making a defference http://greenproducts.myshaklee.com/us/en/ Climate change affects us all: our health, our livelihoods, our hope for the future. For more than 50 years, Shaklee has taken consistent steps to reuduce our climate impact. It's one of the ways we work toward a better future. Shaklee Corporation is the first certified Climate Neutral® company in the world, having earned that distinction back in the relative "dark ages" of voluntary corporate climate action in 2000. In our ongoing efforts to minimize our negative impacts and maximize our positive impacts, Shaklee purchases 100% renewable energy and greenhouse gas emissions offsets for worldwide activities. Given the increasingly rapid rate of climate change, and understanding that these changes are taking place more quickly than the best science predicted, Shaklee has aligned its vision for a better future with its day-to-day and long-term business activities. Shaklee's 2008 Carbon Neutral Protocol Shaklee is 100% carbon neutral. Join a company who is making a defference http://greenproducts.myshaklee.com/us/en/ The greenhouse gas inventories for 2008 covering all Shaklee operations worldwide include US, Canada, Japan, China, Mexico and Taiwan, were reviewed by a third party, Econergy International, in accordance with the World Resources Institute protocol for all six Kyoto-defined greenhouse gases. Shaklee set operational boundaries for the inventory of its worldwide greenhouse gas emissions and worked with Econergy International to calculate the carbon footprint from Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions. The total amount of Shaklee's greenhouse gas emissions from worldwide operations in 2008 was measured and converted to metric tons of CO2 equivalent. Shaklee has partnered with Green Mountain Energy Company to offset its small carbon footprint in North America and Asia with funding for alternative energy and carbon sequestration projects. The projects include Green-e certified renewable energy credits (Texas wind projects) and methane capture for the U.S., Canada and Mexico carbon footprints, plus a China wind project for the China, Taiwan, Japan and Malaysia carbon footprints. Shaklee's combined carbon footprints from operations in China, Taiwan, Japan and Malaysia were offset with the purchase of 1,298 metric tons of wind power in China validated to follow the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change criteria for the Clean Development Mechanism protocol. Located in the Heilongjiang Province of northeast China, the wind project will diversify power mix in China's northeast power grid and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution by taking the place of coal-fired power plants.