Meet Steelcase’s First CarbonNeutral® Product
Steelcase Series 1 with CarbonNeutral product certification helps organizations achieve their emissions goals
The growing climate crisis is an immediate threat to billions of people and businesses around the world. In other words, we all have to join forces to act now, and Steelcase believes business can be a force for good. Steelcase is carbon neutral now and working toward science-based targets to reduce our absolute emissions 50% by 2030 and actively help other companies achieve their own climate commitments.
That’s why Steelcase is now introducing the new Steelcase Series 1 with CarbonNeutral® product certification. It’s the first entry into their carbon neutral portfolio and gives companies more options to reduce their carbon footprint. Steelacse started the carbon neutral product portfolio with Series 1 because it’s one of our most popular and accessible task chairs and features a range of options and surface materials. While they work to drive down absolute environmental impacts in our own processes and those of our supply chain, products like this one allow us to offer organizations and individuals a chance right now to have a positive impact on the Earth.
Steelcase Series 1 with CarbonNeutral product certification includes the same design, ergonomics and quality engineered in the existing Steelcase Series 1 task chair with the added benefit of having its carbon footprint offset for organizations seeking more environmentally-friendly options. Carbon emissions are measured, calculated and verified by a third party across every stage of the chair’s life cycle – offsetting 100% of emissions through projects like forest management, renewable energy, cleaner cooking and electric transportation. These projects – supported by Steelcase through a partnership with Climate Impact Partners – help remove and avoid pollution in environments around the world.
Series 1 with CarbonNeutral product certification helps organizations contribute to their goals for Scope 3 emissions.
SCOPE 1 includes direct emissions like those from a company’s facilities and transportation.
SCOPE 2 represents things like the use of electricity, where the emissions are not directly emitted by the company.
SCOPE 3 includes indirect types of emissions such as purchased goods and services (such as a chair or furniture).
By providing furniture choices that are carbon neutral, Steelcase is helping customers arrive at their own climate goals faster. By choosing Series 1 with CarbonNeutral product certification, customers can make progress toward their own Scope 3 climate emissions goals and LEED certification requirements.
Series 1 with CarbonNeutral product certification is only the beginning. Steelcase is planing to broaden their carbon neutral portfolio by pursuing additional life cycle assessments on more products.
Since COS is also continuously improving climate actions by continuing to provide sustainable products and solutions to our clients in order to impact on climate change, we embrace our partners firs carbon neutral produsct, the Series 1 chair and look forward for other to come.
*Read the whole article of the sustainable Steelcase Series 1 chair on Steelcase website.