Grandma Mae's Country Naturals Carbon Compensation Disclosure
Resolution Pet Brands (RPB)
Certified by IndieClime PBC· Reporting Period: August 15, 2026 – August 14, 2027· Page last updated: 8/21/2026
What "Carbon Compensated" Means Here
The claim: Grandma Mae's kibble pet food processing is 100% carbon compensated for the reporting period above.
What that covers: All Scope 1 (direct fuel use) and Scope 2 (purchased electricity) emissions from our production facility. In plain terms: the energy and fuel used to make our products.
What it does not cover: Emissions occurring before ingredients arrive at our facility (farming, ingredient production, inbound transport) or after finished products leave (storage, distribution, retail, and consumer use). This claim applies only to our processing operations.
How it works: We measured our carbon footprint for the period, then funded verified climate projects that avoid an equal or greater amount of greenhouse gas emissions. The carbon credits supporting this claim have been permanently retired — meaning they can never be sold or counted again by anyone else.
How We Measured Our Footprint
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Protocol: Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Standard (Scope 1 and Scope 2).
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Data sources: Actual utility records for representative months of the period; remaining months estimated using the Cornell Sustainability Consultants’ predictive model.
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Emission factors: EPA eGRID 2025, subregion NPCC Upstate NY — the emissions intensity of the local electric grid.
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Conservative estimation: Our estimates are intentionally conservative. We modeled the missing months on our highest-usage periods, so the footprint we report is a ceiling rather than a best guess. More specifically, our models use seasonality differences to project months of missing data, ensuring overestimations throughout each step. Although we are offsetting a forward-looking period, our method accounts for unpredicted or foreseeable increases in emissions.
The Projects We Fund
Each project below is registered with an independent carbon registry, follows a published quantification protocol, and was verified by an accredited third-party Validation and Verification Body (VVB). The serial numbers identify the exact credits retired on Grandma Mae's behalf.
Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve Project — Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
In plain language: This project protects a large area of Indonesian rainforest that would otherwise be cleared or drained for development, keeping the carbon stored in those trees and soils out of the atmosphere.
Phlogiston Phase 1 —Florida, USA
In plain language: This project captures and destroys a potent greenhouse gas (nitrous oxide) released as a byproduct of adipic acid manufacturing, preventing it from escaping into the atmosphere.
Capricorn Ridge 4 Wind Farm — Texas, USA
In plain language: This wind farm in Texas generates clean electricity for the Lower Colorado River Authority grid, displacing electricity that would otherwise come from burning natural gas or coal.
Proof of Retirement
This claim is substantiated by the permanent retirement of verified carbon credits. Retired credits are removed from circulation permanently and assigned exclusively to the certification of Grandma Mae's calculated footprint for this reporting period. They cannot be resold, transferred, or claimed by any other party.
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Total credits retired: 500 tonnes CO₂e
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Per-project serial numbers and retirement records: listed in each project table above.
If a Project Underperforms or Reverses
If a funded project experiences a reversal (for example, forest loss in the Rimba Raya sequestration project), the claim remains valid through registry buffer pools and IndieClime's credit replacement policy: registries hold a pooled reserve of unretired credits specifically to cover reversals, and IndieClime will retire replacement credits if the buffer is insufficient, so Grandma Mae's “100% Compensated” status is preserved.
Glossary
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Carbon credit / Verified Carbon Unit (VCU): A certificate representing one tonne of CO₂-equivalent emissions avoided or removed, issued by a registry after third-party verification.
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Retirement: Permanently canceling a credit so it can never be used again. Retirement is what turns a credit into a valid claim.
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Vintage: The year in which the emission reduction actually occurred.
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Emissions avoidance vs. removal: Avoidance projects prevent emissions that would otherwise happen (clean energy displacing coal, capturing escaping gases, protecting forests). Removal projects pull CO₂ already in the atmosphere back out. All three projects above are avoidance projects.
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VVB (Validation and Verification Body): An independent, accredited auditor that confirms a project's emission reductions are real and correctly quantified.
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Scope 1 / Scope 2: GHG Protocol categories. Scope 1 = emissions from fuel burned directly by the company. Scope 2 = emissions from generating the electricity the company purchases.
Questions
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