Date/Time: May 14, 2024 (1:00 PM ET/ 10AM PT)
Three years ago Allbirds pledged to cut its per-product carbon footprint in half within four years, aiming for “near zero” status by the end of the decade. As of its most recent progress update, Allbirds is more than halfway to its reduction goal; in 2022 alone, the footwear company cut its per-product carbon footprint by 19 percent thanks to an approach that requires every employee and business partner to consider emissions — from design to materials to packaging. Allbirds is one of the few public companies that regularly highlights greenhouse gas emissions in its earnings report. In this episode of Climate Pioneers, a new GreenBiz video series featuring innovators and executives working to mitigate the climate crisis, host Heather Clancy will talk with Aileen Lerch, Allbirds’ director of sustainability.
The conversation will cover:
- A status report on “M0.0NSHOT,” the project to create a shoe with no carbon footprint
- Why Allbirds calculates carbon labels for its products, even amidst corpor
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