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Carbon Neutral Food Company

We’re committed to meaningful action to protect our planet. We are a carbon neutral company and we have set bold, science-based targets approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to continue reducing our carbon footprint.

Becoming the world’s first major carbon neutral food company was a big step in our fight against climate change.

How we became carbon neutral

It all started with a sustainability commitment to reduce our environmental footprint. When we realized that wasn’t enough, we decided to become the world’s first major carbon neutral food company. Here’s our carbon neutral story

What exactly does carbon neutral mean?

For Maple Leaf Foods, carbon neutral means that we do everything in our power to avoid or reduce our emissions on our own, and any currently unavoidable emissions that we put into the atmosphere are then equally balanced out by the amount that the offset projects take out of the atmosphere.

What are science-based targets?

We were the first food company in Canada to set science-based targets aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and approved by the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi). In 2019, we pledged to reduce our absolute Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 30% by 2030 against a 2018 base year and the intensity (per tonne of product produced) of our Scope 3 GHG emissions by 30% by 2030 against a 2018 base year. 

To drive progress, we are executing on our refreshed environmental reduction strategy and decarbonization roadmap and continue to expand practical initiatives, including: Upgrading equipment and improving operations to use less energy.

  • Installing ammonia heat recovery and waste heat recovery systems
  • Adding condensing economizers to boilers to capture and reuse heat.
  • Energy efficiency training for employees across facilities.
  • Expanding composting, recycling and waste conversion programs
  • Implementing closed-loop water systems and stronger water control measures to reduce water use.
  • Reducing food waste by improving storage, handling and employee training
  • Supporting regenerative agriculture practices in our hog feed supply chain for healthy soil and crop production
  • Working more closely with suppliers to reduce emissions across the supply chain
  • Offsetting 100% of our Scope 1 and 2 emissions* and a portion of Scope 3 emissions annually

*We use RECs to offset 100% of the electric power generated from carbon emitting sources.

View our environmental performance and carbon inventory


To reduce our supply chain emissions, we are investing in

Regenerative Agriculture

Regenerative agriculture is a farming approach focused on restoring soil health, increasing biodiversity and strengthening the resilience of farmland. It helps capture carbon from the atmosphere and store it in the soil, while supporting farmer livelihoods and more sustainable food production.

We continue to partner with Nutrien, a Canadian crop input company, to expand regenerative agriculture practices in our feed supply chain. This collaboration supports farmers in adopting soil-health practices that lower emissions, improve crop performance and strengthen resilience to extreme weather.
 
It focuses on practical steps such as applying nutrients like fertilizer and nitrogen using the 4R principles of nutrient stewardship in agriculture — the right source, rate, time and place — and reducing soil disturbance by planting without plowing. These actions help keep nutrients in the soil, reduce emissions and improve long-term soil health. Outcomes, including greenhouse gas reductions, are tracked using digital tools and independently verified, and we are exploring how best to incorporate these reductions into our Scope 3 inventory.

We have also invested in regenerative agriculture projects beyond our direct supply chain through Indigo Ag. Indigo Ag works with farmers and businesses to expand soil-health practices that store carbon, improve biodiversity and strengthen farmland resilience. Through this program, farmers who adopt regenerative practices can generate certified carbon credits, which companies can buy to support verified climate benefits.
 
Our participation reflects our commitment to advancing more sustainable agriculture and maintaining our carbon neutral status


We are founding members of leading-edge industry organizations, like CANZA

The Canadian Alliance for Net-Zero Agri-food (CANZA) is a national, industry-led, multi-stakeholder alliance of RBC, Maple Leaf Foods, Nutrien, McCain Foods, Loblaw and BCG founded by The Natural Step Canada (now Generate Canada) and the Smart Prosperity Institute, in collaboration with the Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph. CANZA is committed to driving sustainable outcomes in Canada’s agri-food sector. As an integral driver of the Canadian economy, this sector is also a significant emitter of greenhouse gases. CANZA promotes the adoption of regenerative agriculture and carbon farming practices and building a network of anaerobic digesters, offering an opportunity to transform the sector and create a circular, net-zero agri-food supply value. By collaborating with farmers to achieve nature-positive outcomes, the alliance is committed to building a more sustainable future for agriculture.

We support carbon offset projects

In 2025, we supported 30 high-impact carbon offset projects across North America to neutralize our remaining, currently unavoidable emissions. These projects focus on a range of climate solutions, including: 
- renewable energy generation (wind)
- regenerative agriculture and soil carbon
- grassland conservation, 
- refrigerant reclamation, 
- organic waste composting, 
- livestock manure digesters
- landfill gas capture for methane destruction or energy generation.
 
Together, these projects help reduce, avoid or remove greenhouse gas emissions while supporting environmental sustainability across key sectors including agriculture, waste management and clean energy.

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  • Indigo U.S. Project No. 1

    Project Developer/ Owner: Indigo Ag
    Project Identification number: CAR1459
    Location: USA
    Technology type: Regenerative agriculture
    Emissions impact: Reduction/Removal
    Certification: Climate Action Reserve
    Project Validator/ Verifier: Aster Global Environmental Solutions
    Protocol Version: Soil Enrichment Protocol, Version 1.1


    Indigo Ag helps farmers sustainably feed the planet. Companies can purchase verified carbon credits that reward individual farmers for adopting regenerative agriculture practices that lead to reductions or removals or carbon.

  • IESI-Trinity Timber Ridge Landfill Carbon Project

    Project Developer/ Owner: Timber Ridge Landfill Company
    Project Identification number: CAR838
    Location: Missouri, US
    Technology type: Landfill Gas Capture/Combustion
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Climate Action Reserve
    Project Validator/ Verifier: Trinity Carbon Management, LLC (TCM)
    Protocol Version: Climate Action Reserve Landfill Project Protocol, Version 6.0

    IESI MO Landfill Corporation has voluntarily designed and installed a Landfill Gas Collection and Destruction System at the Timber Ridge Landfill. Landfill gas is collected with a surficial gas system and through leachate collection risers. IESI believes the surficial gas system to be superior and more environmentally friendly than a traditional gas system because ALL surface emissions under the synthetic liner are being collected. IESI is not under any regulatory or enforcement action that requires the system to be installed.

  • Gaston County Landfill Gas Destruction Project

    Project Developer/ Owner: Gaston County Solid Waste and Recycling
    Project Identification number: CAR475
    Location: Gaston County, Dallas, NC
    Technology type: Landfill Gas Capture/Combustion
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Climate Action Reserve
    Project Validator/ Verifier: TÜV SÜD America Inc.
    Protocol Version: Climate Action Reserve Landfill Project Protocol Version 5.0

    The Gaston County Landfill is in Dallas, North Carolina. The landfill was opened in 1988 and has an estimated closure date of 2029. The design capacity is 6.1 million tonnes; as of July 2008, the current waste in place is approximately 2.2 million tonnes. In November 2008, the County began operating a voluntary gas collection and flaring system. Plans for a beneficial use project at the site are in the initial stages.

  • Tradewater OOG 2s

    Project Developer: Tradewater, LLC
    Project Identification number: ACR915
    Location: Indiana, USA
    Technology type: Industrial Process Emissions
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: American Carbon Registry
    Project Validator/ Verifier: GHD Limited
    Protocol Version: Methodology for the Quantification, Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions and Removals from Plugging Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells in the U.S. and Canada, Version 1.0.

    The plugging of 1 orphaned gas well in Greene County, IN to prevent methane emissions.

  • Storms Hog Power, LLC

    Project Developer: Storms Hog Power Partners, LLC
    Project Identification number: CAR1145
    Location: North Carolina, USA
    Technology type: Livestock - ARB Compliance
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Climate Action Reserve
    Project Validator/ Verifier: Agri-Waste Technology, Inc..
    Protocol Version: Compliance Offset Protocol

    The Storms Hog Power, LLC project consists of a DVO-designed digester, engine generation set, and an open flare. The digester converts organic material to biogas in a sealed, anaerobic environment. The methane-rich biogas is combusted in the engine genset to produce electricity and waste heat as well as in a flare. Manure management practice includes scraping the manure deposited in below-ground pits to reception pits. Manure is then transferred from the reception pits to the digester using Honey Vac units. Digester effluents are stored in anaerobic lagoons.

  • Skyridge Farms Advanced Solid Separation Project

    Project Developer: Western Valley Farms
    Project Identification number: VCS2535
    Location: Washington, USA
    Technology type: Alternative Manure Management
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Verified Carbon Standard (Verra)
    Project Validator/ Verifier: Carbon Check (Pty) Ltd
    Protocol Version: Climate Action Reserve (CAR) US Livestock Project Protocol v4.0 and ARB Livestock Protocol

    Dan DeGroot, owner of Skyridge Farms, a family dairy farm in Southern Washington, has a mission to produce dairy as sustainably as possible. With over three decades of farm operation, Skyridge has seen many improvements, including technological upgrades to improve living conditions for its cows and energy efficiency for its buildings. Before installing a manure management system, the facility pumped approximately 400,000 gallons of manure per day into an open lagoon where it was stored until it was ready to be used as fertilizer in the farm’s crop fields. As the manure sat stagnant in the open lagoon, anaerobic decomposition occurred, resulting in potent methane gas emissions.

  • Washington Beef LLC Greenhouse Gas and Solids Reduction Project

    Project Developer: Washington Beef, LLC
    Project Identification number: CAR1008
    Location: Washington, USA
    Technology type: Organic Waste Digestion
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Climate Action Reserve
    Project Validator/ Verifier: Agri-Waste Technology, Inc.
    Protocol Version: Climate Action Reserve (CAR) Organic Waste Digestion Project Protocol Version 2.1, Reserve Offset Program Manual, Verification Program Manual, ISO-14064-3:2019.

    Washington Beef LLC voluntarily installed a greenhouse gas collection and destruction system at their on-site wastewater treatment plant. Before the project was installed, the first phase of the wastewater treatment at Washington Beef was the anaerobic decomposition of waste in an open lagoon. The lagoon is now capped, trapping the methane gas for beneficial use as fuel for one of the facility's boilers.

  • Improving Energy Efficiency in Homes Through Smart Thermostat Optimization

    Project Developer: ecobee Technologies ULC
    Project Identification number: VCS3352
    Location: Texas, USA
    Technology type: Energy demand
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Verified Carbon Standard (Verra)
    Project Validator/ Verifier: TÜV SÜD America Inc.
    Protocol Version: Department of Energy Uniform Method Protocol

    This project activity will use smart thermostats installed in homes to reduce the heating and cooling usage. The thermostats are manufactured by ecobee which also has developed a thermostat optimization software platform to control these devices remotely in a manner that deepens the levels of energy savings beyond what would have occurred in the absence of this enhanced functionality. The energy efficiency optimizations resulting from this platform generate no additional revenue for ecobee but do represent a significant cost. This approach reduces both electricity and natural gas usage in air conditioning and heating units in residential homes. The project boundary will include the United States, and the project will be grouped by climate and equipment type.

  • Morehead Landfill

    Project Developer: Advanced Disposal Services Morehead Landfill, Inc.
    Project Identification number: CAR592
    Location: Kentucky, USA
    Technology type: Landfill Gas Capture/Combustion
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Climate Action Reserve
    Project Validator/ Verifier: First Environment, Inc.
    Protocol Version: Climate Action Reserve U.S. Landfill Project Protocol, Version 6.0, June 2022 (CAR Protocol)

    The Morehead Landfill is located west of Morehead Kentucky, approximately 60 miles east of Lexington. The site consists of approximately 87 acres permitted for landfilling of 198 acres defined in the permit. The site consists of a closed residential landfill and a contained landfill. The total permitted airspace is 8.7 million cubic yards. As of February 2009, the site had approximately 6.6 million cubic yards remaining. The site is currently receiving approximately 91,000 tons of waste per year for disposal. The landfill voluntarily installed a landfill gas collection and control system in 2009. The system includes 16 vertical extraction wells in the existing waste mass of the contained landfill with an open flare. The system came online in December 2009.

  • Phlogiston Phase I

    Project Developer: Ascend Performance Materials Operations LLC
    Project Identification number: CAR1480
    Location: Florida, USA
    Technology type: Landfill Gas Capture/Combustion
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Climate Action Reserve
    Project Validator/ Verifier: Agri-Waste Technology, Inc.
    Protocol Version: Climate Action Reserve’s U.S. Adipic Acid Production Protocol Version 1.0, Reserve Offset Program Manual, Verification Program Manual, ISO-14064-3:2019

    Prior to this project, the exhaust from the adipic acid process was directed to a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) unit or a Thermal Reduction Unit (TRU). The SCR destroys NOX to comply with Clean Air Act Title V permit requirements but is ineffective at abating N2O. The TRU destroys both N2O and NOX but is less effective at NOX reduction. To comply with the Title V permit, the SCR was operated historically for a significant portion of the year. Phase I of the project is the installation of an absorption column that will convert NOX to nitric acid via a high-pressure water absorption process. This absorption column will allow the TRU to accept a higher percentage of the flow from the Adipic acid plant, resulting in a higher quantity of N2O destroyed. In 2023 Phase II of the project installed a new control device. A second TRU effective at destroying both N2O and NOx was added to provide redundancy and reliability to maintain the highest possible level of N2O destruction.

  • Energy Efficiency and Solid Waste Diversion Activities within the Quebec Sustainable Community

    Project Developer: Will Solutions Inc
    Project Identification number: VCS929
    Location: Quebec, Canada
    Technology type: Energy demand; Waste handling and disposal
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Verified Carbon Standard (Verra)
    Project Validator/ Verifier: Earthood Services Limited
    Protocol Version: Verified Carbon Standard (VCS Version 3)

    This project is a grouped project, where energy efficiency and solid waste diversion activities have been initiated by a Promoter for an assortment of Client Facilities grouped and located inside the Province of Quebec. The SCSP will use a consolidated Information and Communication Technology-enabled data monitoring and collection system to track project activity data. Even though the activities of Client Facilities vary, energy consumption and waste management are similar across many businesses and organizations. This project is meant to work with and support the provision of single window reporting and measurement provided by a third party to capture the information required to quantify emissions reductions. The main Project objective is to gradually group together inside a Sustainable Community or cluster, up to 10,000 Clients Facilities, located inside the Province of Quebec, that will achieve together a potential 22,852,000 tCO2e over 2010-2020.

  • South Kent Landfill Gas 

    Project Developer: 3Degrees Group, Inc
    Project Identification number: CAR443
    Location: Michigan, USA
    Technology type: Landfill Gas Capture/Combustion
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Climate Action Reserve
    Project Validator/ Verifier: OmnexFuturepast
    Protocol Version: Climate Action Reserve’s U.S. Landfill Protocol Version 6.0, Reserve Offset Program Manual, Verification Program Manual, ISO-14064-3:2019

    This new project consists of 24 LFG extraction wells, blower and open flare. Project went online in July of 2008, with all documentation being recorded. In the future there will be generating units producing Electric.

  • Clinton Landfill Gas Collection and Combustion Project

    Project Developer: 3Degrees Group, Inc
    Project Identification number: VCS318
    Location: Illinois, USA
    Technology type: Waste Handling and Disposal
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Verified Carbon Standard (Verra)
    Project Validator/ Verifier: Carbon Check (India) Private Ltd.
    Protocol Version: Verified Carbon Standard (VCS Version 3)

    The project activity is the capture and destruction of methane from the Clinton Landfill via combustion engines. The generated electricity is sold to the local grid. However, the displacement of fossil fuels resulting from this activity is not included in this Project and emission reductions from the offsite use of electricity are not addressed in this project. The project includes an active landfill gas collection system including wells, piping, blowers, meters and valves; a back-up open flare; two 1.6-MW Caterpillar 3520C engine generator sets; gas conditioning equipment; a building to house the generators; and associated interconnection and metering devices.

  • Farm Power Rexville Regional Digester

    Project Developer: 3Degrees Group, Inc
    Project Identification number: CAR416
    Location: Washington, USA
    Technology type: Livestock Gas Capture/Combustion
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Climate Action Reserve
    Project Validator/ Verifier: TÜV SÜD America Inc.
    Protocol Version: Climate Action Reserve’s U.S. Livestock Protocol Version 4.0, Reserve Offset Program Manual, Verification Program Manual, ISO-14064-3:2019.

    Slightly different at each farm: all manure that was collected in the baseline is sent to the digester, then to screw press separator, then to storage pond. The remaining manure stays on open lots. The farm no longer operates the screw press separator on the farm but instead sends all manure to digester and solids are separated out at digester site. Separated solids are used for bedding.

  • Advanced Refrigeration - ARS2021004

    Project Developer: Therm Solutions Inc.
    Project Identification number: ACR904
    Location: South Carolina, USA
    Technology type: Industrial Process Emissions
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: American Carbon Registry
    Project Validator/ Verifier: First Environment, Inc.
    Protocol Version: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions and Removals from Advanced Refrigeration Systems, Version 2.1

    19 new construction CO2 refrigeration projects located in the following states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina & Tennessee.

  • Advanced Refrigeration - ARS2022008

    Project Developer: Therm Solutions Inc.
    Project Identification number: ACR1088
    Location: Virginia, USA
    Technology type: Industrial Process Emissions
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: American Carbon Registry
    Project Validator/ Verifier: First Environment, Inc.
    Protocol Version: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions and Removals from Advanced Refrigeration Systems, version 3.0

    4 new construction refrigeration projects located in the following states: DE, VA & NY. 1 is a cold storage facility and the rest are grocery retail. All utilize CO2 as a new low gwp refrigerant. The grocery retail locations utilize a glycol secondary loop.

  • Anew - Tomah Highlands Forestry Project

    Project Developer: Anew Carbon Development, LLC
    Project Identification number: ACR617
    Location: Maine, USA
    Technology type: Forest Carbon
    Emissions impact: Reduction/Removal
    Certification: American Carbon Registry
    Project Validator/ Verifier: TÜV SÜD America, Inc.
    Protocol Version: GHG Removals and Emission Reductions through Increased Forest Carbon Sequestration on Non-Federal U.S. Forestlands v.1.3, April 2018

    The Anew - Tomah Highlands Forestry Project is located on 36,634 acres of northern hardwood and softwood forest in eastern Maine. The landowner, Baskahegan Company, owns over 150,000 acres of forestland in Maine including another carbon project directly adjacent to Tomah Highlands, and has been operating in the forestry industry for over 100 years. Baskahegan Co. has been a leader in sustainable forest management in the region for decades, implementing low impact harvesting methods and longer harvesting rotations. However, given the current economics of industrial forestry in Maine, this strategy has led to diminishing returns and has forced Baskahegan Co. to harvest greater volumes of timber than they would like over recent years. Carbon projects and the associated revenues have offered an alternative path for them to meet their mission of long-term, sustainable forestry without increasing harvests on their forestlands.

  • Coffeyville NAP2

    Project Developer: ClimeCo Corp MCK NAP2, LLC.
    Project Identification number: CAR1335
    Location: Kansas, USA
    Technology type: Nitric Acid N2O- Tertiary Catalyst
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: Climate Action Reserve
    Project Validator/ Verifier: Agri-Waste Technology, Inc.
    Protocol Version: Climate Action Reserve’s U.S. Nitric Acid Production Protocol Version 3.0, Reserve Offset Program Manual, Verification Program Manual, ISO-14064-3:2019,

    The project consists of the installation of a tertiary abatement catalyst on the Girdler High Pressure NAP2 at the Coffeyville Kansas facility. The technology will deploy a Shell/CRI tertiary catalyst system downstream of the ammonia oxidation reactor, decomposing the nitrous oxide that would have otherwise been vented to the atmosphere.

  • Prairie Pothole Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands

    Project Developer: Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
    Project Identification number: ACR222
    Location: North Dakota, USA
    Technology type: Agricultural Land Management
    Emissions impact: Avoidance
    Certification: American Carbon Registry
    Project Validator/ Verifier: TÜV SÜD America, Inc.
    Protocol Version: Avoided Conversion of Grasslands and Shrublands to Crop Production (ACoGS), Version 2.0 (October 2019)

    This is a programmatic project speaking to the avoided GHG emissions from threatened grasslands being cultivated, as outlined in the ACR-approved ACoGS methodology. The project region is the Prairie Pothole Region of the U.S.

  • The RECs are associated with power generated from the renewable resource listed below:

    Gros Morne Facility
    ID: b7c723df-d2b1
    Technology: Wind
    Label: Green-e
    Vintage: 2024-08-01
    Serial number: 2826-QC-08-2024-0B2FB153-12946-17945

    Parc éolien de Saint-Damase
    ID: 60f1d97b-6e32
    Technology: Wind
    Label: Green-e
    Vintage: 2024-09-01
    Serial number: 3735-QC-09-2024-34B2C9A9-1-4683

    Parc éolien des Moulins
    ID: 60f1d97b-6e32
    Technology: Wind
    Label: Green-e
    Vintage: 2024-09-01
    Serial number: 3657-QC-09-2024-0F13D1AB-24820-27583

    Parc éolien de Témiscouata
    ID: 60f1d97b-6e32
    Technology: Wind
    Label: Green-e
    Vintage: 2024-07-01; 2024-09-01; 2024-08-01
    Serial number: 3667-QC-07-2024-97EBC1D1-1-5043; 3667-QC-09-2024-D3A672A1-1-4544; 3667-QC-08-2024-609D919B-1-5221

    Parc éolien du Granit
    ID: 60f1d97b-6e32
    Technology: Wind
    Label: Green-e
    Vintage: 2024-08-01; 2024-07-01
    Serial number: 3639-QC-08-2024-32D9AC73-1-3475; 3639-QC-07-2024-AF418852-1-2747

    Parc éolien la Mitis
    ID: 60f1d97b-6e32
    Technology: Wind
    Label: Green-e
    Vintage: 2024-07-01
    Serial number: 3638-QC-07-2024-C6A8B192-1-3279

    Parc éolien Le Plateau 2
    ID: 60f1d97b-6e32
    Technology: Wind
    Label: Green-e
    Vintage: 2024-07-01; 2024-08-01
    Serial number: 3678-QC-07-2024-3A5CAB9C-1-3307; 3678-QC-08-2024-8E19D786-1-3078

    Parc éolien New Richmond
    ID: 60f1d97b-6e32
    Technology: Wind
    Label: Green-e
    Vintage: 2024-08-01; 2024-09-01; 2024-08-01
    Serial number: 3083-QC-08-2024-62C32F50-1-7820; 3083-QC-09-2024-50D36FA0-1-8297; 3083-QC-08-2024-62C32F50-7821-7835

    Parc éolien Seigneurie de Beau pré 2
    ID: 60f1d97b-6e32
    Technology: Wind
    Label: Green-e
    Vintage: 2024-08-01
    Serial number: 3659-QC-08-2024-94BA1800-14643-21643

    Parc éolien Seigneurie de Beau pré 4
    ID: 60f1d97b-6e32
    Technology: Wind
    Label: Green-e
    Vintage: 2024-07-01; 2024-08-01; 2024-07-01
    Serial number: 3660-QC-07-2024-09CF5FF6-1-13266; 3660-QC-08-2024-DB06692B-1-12510; 3660-QC-07-2024-09CF5FF6-13267-13336

    Viger-Denonville
    ID: 60f1d97b-6e32
    Technology: Wind
    Label: Green-e
    Vintage: 2024-08-01
    Serial number: 3457-QC-08-2024-5BBB6784-5196-8575

We are assessing our impact on nature

We recognize that it’s increasingly important to understand and manage how our operations and supply chains affect forests, biodiversity and natural ecosystems. Assessing and addressing these impacts is essential to responsible business performance and we are committed to progress.

We have used the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Water and Biodiversity Risk Filters to assess nature-related risks across our operations and engaged an experienced third-party organization to evaluate our value chain using geospatial analysis and science-based methods.

Our operational review examined factors such as water stress, water quality, fire risk, pollution and changing climate conditions. The value chain assessment evaluated land degradation, deforestation, soil and water impacts, aligned with steps 1 and 2 of the Science Based Targets for Nature (SBTN) and the framework developed by the Accountability Framework initiative (AFi).

Three priority areas were identified based on these findings:
1) Regenerating the land across our value chain
2) Improving water quality in key Canadian regions where we run facilities or buy from suppliers
3) Identifying and eliminating deforestation risks in the key commodities we source

Work is underway in each of these areas, and we will continue to strengthen our efforts.

We are supporting Canadian organizations like, World Wildlife Canada, to conduct leading edge research.

We support organizations like WWF-Canada to advance research and practical solutions that help stabilize the climate, protect natural resources and restore Canadian landscapes.

Some of the initiatives our funding is supporting:

  • The Living Planet Data Hub — a free, user-friendly online platform and interactive map that brings together trusted, peer‑reviewed information to support conservation planning, restoration and climate action.
  • The first national map identifying how much carbon is stored across Canada’s landscapes and help  inform efforts to protect these important areas - developed by WWF-Canada and the Remote Sensing Lab at McMaster University 
  • WWF-Canada’s research to identify landscapes identify Canadian landscapes with the greatest potential for restoration and long-term environmental benefit
  • The Living Planet Data Hub — a free, user-friendly online platform and interactive map that brings together trusted, peer‑reviewed information to support conservation planning, restoration and climate action.

Integrated Report

We’re documenting and calculating all the changes we’re making. See our progress in our 2025 Integrated Report.

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