November Impact Update: From Climate Deadlines to Climate Cocktail Parties
Compliance deadlines, product upgrades, big partnerships, and community moments powering climate action forward - join us as we get geared up for Canada Climate Week!
🌾 Join Us: Building Canada into a Global Sustainable Food Superpower
📅 Nov 27, EST 5.30pm | Carbonhound HQ (145 St. Luke Ln, 2nd Floor) + LinkedIn Livestream
🌾 Calling all food innovators, producers, manufacturers, and retailers shaping the future of Canadian food!
As part of Canada Climate Week Xchange (CCWX), join Carbonhound & RBC for How to Build Canada into a Global Sustainable Food Superpower - an evening where innovation, data, and financing meet to drive growth, efficiency, and global reach across the food value chain.
🎤 Speakers include:
Joshua Goodman– Sobeys
Taylor Stanley – Riverside Natural Foods Ltd. (Home of MadeGood)
Jason Persall – President, Persall Fine Foods Co.
Natasha Shute – RBC Sustainable Finance
Shane Harper – Head Farmer, Restaurant Pearl Morissette
🔥 What to expect:
✅ Data-driven traceability, forecasting & waste reduction
✅ Financing and incentives for scaling efficiently
✅ Partnerships bridging farm, factory & retail
✨ Chef-prepared tastings by Miriam Echeverria, sustainability-inspired cocktails & conversations designed to spark cross-sector collaboration.
Come connect with industry leaders and uncover how technology and capital are reshaping Canadian food - from cutting costs and managing risk to unlocking export opportunities!
🤝 Partnership Announcement: NGen Canada × Carbonhound
We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with NGen Canada to help Canadian manufacturers measure, verify, and manage their emissions with confidence. 🇨🇦
Why this partnership matters:
🏭 Global supply chains are demanding credible climate data from manufacturers.
⚙️ Carbonhound automates emissions measurement and reporting to save time and resources.
🌎 Together, we’re empowering Canada’s manufacturing sector to lead in sustainable production and stay competitive in a low-carbon economy.
⏰ California State Bills: Deadlines Are Set and Quickly Approaching!
• SB 261 – Jan 1, 2026
• SB 253 (Scopes 1–2) – Jun 30, 2026 (confirmed by the California Air Resources Board)
If you do business in California, you’ll likely need climate-risk (SB 261) and GHG emissions (SB 253) disclosures.
Carbonhound × Blue Sky Climate Reporting Services = your one-stop, low-cost path:
✅ Automate Scopes 1–3 data (aligned with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol)
✅ IFRS S2 / TCFD climate-risk report, submission-ready
✅ Independent assurance coordination
✅ Clear scope, fixed fee, faster prep (often up to 70% time savings)
We’ve created a detailed page on our website (download your one-pager here!)
🌿 Toronto Climate Week Recap — From Plate to Planet 🌿
What a milestone! We hosted our very first Toronto Climate Week event in our new office — bringing together food lovers, sustainability leaders, and climate professionals to explore how food systems shape planetary health.
💡 Key themes from the night
🥕 Food choices influence human and environmental health
🔌 Businesses play a critical role in reducing waste, energy demand, and material impacts
🤝 Climate action accelerates when every skillset comes to the table
🎙️ Insights that stuck with us
“Good food isn’t just about vitamins or taste — it’s about how it’s grown, the resources it used, how it moved across the planet, and the people behind it.” — Puneeta Chhitwal-Varma
“You don’t need to work in climate to make an impact. Start with what you know — your skills, your workplace, your habits — and take one small step forward.” — Sanders Lazier
🥗 Delicious proof of possibility
A huge thank-you to Chef Miriam Echeverria for a menu featuring rescued and low-impact ingredients — including carrot & lentil hummus and celery-root croquettes — along with upcycled bread from The Spent Goods Company. Sustainability never tasted so good. 😋
🌎 Why this matters
Healthy food, healthy communities, and a healthy planet are deeply connected. At Carbonhound, we help organizations turn their sustainability ambitions into credible, auditable climate action — because transformation happens when ideas move into execution.
Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to the energy in the room. Here’s to more conversations, more collaboration, and more climate-positive choices — one meal and one action at a time. 🌱✨
🎥 Missed it?
🎁 Thoughtful Gifting for the Holiday Season: Unwrapit
As we head into the holiday season, we want to highlight a company that’s reimagining corporate gifting with sustainability at its core: Unwrapit.
Founded in Toronto with a mission to make gifting not only low-waste but actually net-positive for society, Unwrapit offers a digital-first gifting platform that reduces emissions while delivering meaningful, personalized experiences. Instead of physical items that risk ending up in landfills, they offer curated gift options including charitable donations, tree planting, experiences, subscription services, and gift cards that recipients actually want.
What we especially love? Unwrapit partners with Carbonhound to provide CO2 emissions reports for every gifting campaign, showing clients exactly how much more sustainable their digital gifting approach is compared to traditional physical swag. This transparency aligns perfectly with the values we champion every day.
Their gift campaigns achieve an impressive 80% claim rate on average, with over a third of gifts receiving enthusiastic “high-fives” from recipients – proof that sustainable gifting doesn’t mean compromising on thoughtfulness or impact.
This holiday season, consider Unwrapit for your corporate gifting needs. Visit unwrapit.com to learn more about creating gift experiences that honour both people and the planet.
🎙️ Customer Success Monthly Office Hours
Join our team live to dive deeper into key topics, get guidance, and preview what’s coming next.
🗓️ Last Friday of every month — 12:00–1:00 PM ET
(Starting November)Friday, November 28, 2025
Exploring & Expanding Your Scope 3
➡️ After each session, you’ll receive a concise follow-up:
“What You Missed at Office Hours”
Key takeaways
Questions and answers from the live discussion
Links to any resources or materials shared
🌱 We hope to see you there and continue strengthening your climate program together.
👉 Look out for an email from your Customer Success representative with meeting details!
📌 Finish Strong This Year – We’re Here to Help!
As we head into the final stretch of the year, now is the perfect time to make sure your emissions inventory is up to date and ready for 2026 reporting.
🧭 Keep Your Inventory on Track
Completing your operational and value chain data ahead of year-end ensures:
Confident reporting and climate disclosures
Smooth kickoff for next year’s GHG Inventory planning
Faster review from our team
🤝 Book Time With Us
We’re happy to support you through data collection, imports, methodology questions, and reporting setup.
📅 Reach out to your Customer Success representative to schedule dedicated working sessions — we’ll help you push your climate goals across the finish line.
Let’s close the year with confidence and momentum 🚀
🛠️ Product Updates
We’re rolling out important improvements to enhance speed, reliability, and the overall user experience.
💫 Imminent Release
Upgraded processing for emissions calculations, data imports, and key system operations.
Data imports are now faster and more dependable, with a true progress indicator during uploads.
Increased file size limit for imports to 100k rows.
Quicker detection and reporting of import errors.
Enhanced protection against conflicting edits when multiple users modify the same item.
Improved request handling ensures support issues are captured and resolved faster.
🐛 Coming Soon
Clearer visual feedback on system and process statuses directly in the app.
Cost data entry for operational records (pre-tax cost, currency) with foundational cost reporting options.
Visual refresh for the core application: adaptive layouts, streamlined design, and stronger performance.
Emission factor platform enhancements: greater coverage, smarter search and filtering, and faster factor updates.
Expanded reporting flexibility to better support diverse organizational needs.
More updates are on the way as we continue to strengthen the platform and deliver a smoother end-to-end experience!
👋 Meet Our Newest Team Member: Alvaro
We’re excited to welcome Alvaro Lopez as our newest Data Processing Specialist!
Alvaro is from Peru and studied Information Systems & Analytics in the United States. He is passionate about using data to solve real-world problems, drive growth, and promote sustainable alternatives. He has experience in ETL, data analysis, and financial analysis. In his free time, he enjoys playing soccer, hiking, traveling, and exploring new cultures.
🕵️♂️ Team Bonding: Carbonhound Takes on the Escape Room
This fall, our team put our problem-solving skills to the test — outside the platform! We stepped into an escape room challenge full of clues, codes, and clock-ticking pressure. Just like our work in climate action, it took collaboration, curiosity, and a few creative ideas to crack the puzzle.
We didn’t just escape — we had a blast doing it. Here’s to more moments that remind us how much fun we can have while working together toward big goals. 🔐✨