Arcadian Organic & Natural Meat Co. has a comprehensive program to manage its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Implemented in June 2019, the program ensures Arcadian is responsibly dealing with the pressing issue of climate change.
We chose to do this voluntarily because it is right ethically, and it’s right commercially. We want to contribute to ensuring the natural patterns that created our productive landscape remain as they have always been, keeping the country healthy and fertile.
Arcadian is officially certified as a LowCO2 business under the LowCO2 programme of the Carbon Reduction Institute (CRI). CRI audits organisations internationally to the United Nations standards on greenhouse gas emissions. We’ve invested carefully in carbon offsets to compensate for the carbon footprint of our operations and all elements of the carbon neutral products that we offer to the market. Arcadian is also working closely with producers to ensure our farmers are reducing their emissions at every opportunity.
Consumers seeking meat products that touch lightly on the environment can now look for our numerous branded products proudly carrying the carbon neutral certification logo. All GHG emissions have been offset from production to end-user delivery, making them 100% carbon neutral.
Carbon neutral products are available to all of Arcadian’s commercial customers. In addition, customers can also produce their own carbon neutral products using Arcadian meat, just ask us what is involved.
Arcadian’s Carbon Neutral products all display the carbon neutral logo.
Becoming a Low CO2 Meat company allows Arcadian to take responsibility for our footprint and our carbon emissions. Every carbon neutral product has had its carbon footprint calculated and we’ve chosen to ensure that it’s ‘neutralised’ by something that compensates for it.
The activities that compensate are called ‘carbon offsets’ or ‘carbon credits.’ A Carbon offset represents one Tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent Greenhouse gas that has been prevented from entering the atmosphere. These emissions are offset by a third party who reduces greenhouse gases on our behalf, through a Carbon Offset Project.
The Carbon Reduction Institute has comprehensively assessed our carbon credit provider to consider their accreditation; environmental additionality; financial additionality; leakage; permanence and additional social or economic benefits.
We source our carbon credits from projects that meet the above criteria. They are real, measurable, permanent, additional and independently verified. Arcadian Organic only uses the International Gold Standard Certification of verifiable carbon credits as prescribed under the Kyoto Protocol.
How have we offset our emissions?
Having begun the journey of measuring and monitoring our carbon emissions, the offsets of our operations include the amazing renewable energy Mytrah Wind project in India. Our Carbon Neutrality is proven by best practice auditing and carbon emissions accounting methods.
Moving India’s rapidly expanding economy away from heavy polluting fossil fuels towards a clean energy alternative is an important development. Wind farms generate clean, renewable electricity while also providing important infrastructure and economic & social benefits for remote communities.
The Mytrah Wind project converts wind energy into electrical energy, across a number of wind farms, which have a combined installed capacity of 493.5 MW. This clean electricity is then exported to the Indian Grid, supplementing energy demands with an alternative to coal-fired electricity.
Wind Power Project Benefits
The clean power produced by the wind project displaces an equivalent amount of power from the grid. This reduces greenhouse gas emissions since the power it displaces comes from heavy polluting fossil fuel-fired power plants. Mytrah Wind, the project owner, runs a scheme to support the wellbeing of local communities. This includes investment to improve access to education, clean water and employment & opportunities for young people in the area. Mytrah also runs two community camps, together with UNICEF, empowering young women and educating them on their rights, creative abilities and skills in healthcare. A safe water project provides clean water, sanitation education and improved latrine services.
To find out more about the approved carbon credit project, please go to the link below:
Visit the Mytrah Wind project Site
Arcadian is very proud to be supporting such a great project with our carbon credits, but we will continue finding ways to directly reduce carbon emissions from our company operations. People have been farming livestock the way we do for nearly 10,000 years. Arcadian is committed to ensuring an environment that can sustain it for at least that long again.
