Climate Neutrality and Renewable Electricity Labels

South Pole offers Climate Neutrality labels for:

• companies
• products
• events

and Renewable Electricity labels for

• companies
• events

The South Pole labels are closely aligned with international standards such as PAS 2060 - the leading international standard for demonstrating carbon neutrality, developed in 2014 by the British Standards Institution (BSi).

The underlying greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting must follow recognised international standards such as the GHG Protocol or ISO 14064-1.

In addition, South Pole also offers a "Climate Conscious" label for organisations that take climate action without achieving climate neutrality or purchasing renewable electricity.

How can your organisation receive a South Pole label?

To find out how you can meet the required standards to use one of our labels, please contact us or refer to our Technical Guidance.

Label Name	Aligned with international standards	Boundary
Climate Neutrality labels (for companies and organisations)
	Closely aligned with PAS 2060	Covers emissions from company operations, but excludes emissions from products such as raw materials, use of products and end-of-life treatment of sold products. Investments, if relevant, should be assessed but does not need to be offset.
	Closely aligned with PAS 2060	Same scope as Climate Neutral Company but covering one site, for instance one facility or store.
	Closely aligned with PAS 2060	Covers emissions from a product's life- cycle
	Closely aligned with PAS 2060	Covers emissions from events, including the attendees
	Aligned with the CarbonNeutral Protocol	Covers emissions from the organisation of an event, excluding the attendees.
Climate Neutrality labels (only for financial institutions)
	Closely aligned with PAS 2060 in many aspects. This label is only available for financial institutions	Same scope as Climate Neutral Company but no GHG footprinting of the Scope 3 category investments is required. It is, however, mandatory to engage in climate-related work in the portfolio, for example in Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) activities. The label is an intermediary step to the Climate Neutral Company label for financial institutions.
Other climate action labels (no claim to climate neutrality)
	No	Covers any emissions that the reporting entity defines and offsets with South Pole-certified carbon credits
	Yes, RE100	Covers all electricity consumed