Relish Ideas

Certified 2024, 2023

Relish Ideas is taking proactive efforts to address global CO2 emissions that result from business activities. Through Offset Climate Certified®, the CO2 emissions resulting from their business activities have been third-party measured, and voluntarily mitigated through verified Greenhouse Gas (GHG) reduction projects. Since joining Offset Climate Certified®, they have supported the verified reduction of 40 mT of CO2 - to put this in perspective it would take 661 tree seedlings TEN YEARS to draw down this much CO2 (US EPA).

Relish Ideas’ measured and meaningful climate action helps accelerate verified CO2 reductions at scale.

1 | Measured

Measured: January 1 - December 31, 2024
Total measured CO2e emissions: 14.77 metric tonnes

2 | Offset

Year offset: 2024
Offset amount: 15 metric tonnes CO2e (100% of measured emissions)
Offset retirements: Ascend Performance 5 mT | SPLT 5 mT | Escuela de Minas 5 mT

3 | Reducing

Reduction goals for 2025
Helping remote team members enroll in renewable energy programs where they live if available / Purchasing refurbished electronics when possible / Partnering with and purchasing from companies demonstrating transparent environmental and social stewardship / Choosing restaurants and food items demonstrating support for regenerative agriculture

4 | Engaging

Engagement goals for 2025
Customers: highlighting Offset Climate Certified® and why this form of climate action is important
Vendors/Partners: engaging in proactive discussions about any climate efforts they are taking, and how collaboration can result in a bigger, collective impact

Where Relish Ideas supported independently verified CO2 reductions to mitigate their 2024 business emissions

FLORIDA

The Ascend Performance Phlogiston project uses proprietary technology to enhance voluntary control of N2O (nitrous oxide) emissions in Florida.
**Why it’s important:** N2O is a byproduct of manufacturing things like first responder uniforms and airbags for cars, and has a global warming potential 265X higher than carbon dioxide.
**Standard:** Climate Action Reserve **UN SDGs:** 9, 12, 13

COLORADO

SPLT is an accredited land trust leveraging carbon finance to acquire and preserve shortgrass prairie ecosystems in Colorado.
**Why it’s important**: avoids land conversion to agriculture / commercial development and provides refuge for native wildlife including the swift fox, ferruginous hawk, burrowing owl, and mountain plover.
**Standard:** Climate Action Reserve **UN SDGs: 13, 15**

COLOMBIA

Escuela de Minas is a run-of-river hydroelectric plant lowering the carbon intensity of increasing electricity production in southern Marinilla, Colombia.
**Why it’s important:** avoids the addition of fossil fuel intensive energy production, and increases the share of renewables as energy demand rises due to economic growth in the region.
**Standard:** Verra **UN SDGs:** 4, 7, 8, 13

2023 Details: Measured 13.95 mT | Offset 25 mT | Crow Lake 10 mT | SPLT 5 mT | Escuela de Minas 10 mT

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