Shopify constantly works to create a sustainable environment with its merchant partners. Recently, it helped one of the prime coffee brands based on its platform, Paddy & Scott’s to turn carbon neutral with Shopify’s environment friendly shipping service.
With its base in Suffolk, the United Kingdom, Paddy & Scott’s uses Shopify’s ‘Planet—Carbon‑neutral shipping‘ application. It is free to install using Shopify App Store. By automatically calculating estimated shipping emissions on each order placed on Paddy & Scott’s Shopify store, the app charges the merchant a small fee to neutralise the carbon footprint.
We are thrilled to be using Shopify and now be able to promise our customers, who share our climate-conscious values, that any deliveries will be carbon neutral going forward.
Jon Reed, CEO, Paddy & Scott’s
Environment Conscious Brand
Paddy & Scott’s is already an environment friendly brand as it uses paper cups and recyclable packaging material to reduce plastic use. Joining the new journey with Shopify’s Planet—Carbon‑neutral shipping app, the coffee brand aims to take climate-conscious values a step ahead.
“From our compostable paper cups to recyclable coffee packaging, we are always looking at ways to reduce our use of single-use plastic and lower our CO2 emissions. We are thrilled to be using Shopify and now be able to promise our customers, who share our climate-conscious values, that any deliveries will be carbon neutral going forward,” Paddy & Scott’s CEO Jon Reed said as quoted by retailtimes.co.uk.
On its Shopify store, Paddy & Scott’s features icons that explains the company’s commitment to remove carbon from the atmosphere. It also features testimonials by customers who care about the environment and have joined Paddy & Scott’s in its initiative.
“Paddy & Scott’s monetary contributions from each customer order will go towards funding cutting-edge carbon removal projects that have the potential to reverse climate change. This fits with our passion for supporting sustainable and eco-friendly projects around the world,” Reed added.
Helping Community
Launched in 2007, Paddy & Scott’s sells coffee from self-farming project in Kenya. With authentic taste and environment friendly processing and packaging, Paddy & Scott’s also supports the local coffee-growing community with education, training, jobs and processing equipment.
Now, partnering with Shopify, Paddy & Scott’s wishes to work on climate solutions reducing carbon emotions using its shipping service. Besides carbon-neutral shipping, Shopify’s Planet app helps you showcase your commitment to save environment, help reverse climate change and connect you to shoppers who care for a sustainable future.
Shopify’s Initiative
Beyond commercial objectives, Shopify aims to create a sustainable environment. On its website, the Canada-based e-commerce giant states: “Shopify brings merchants, customers, and climate entrepreneurs together in the fight against climate change”. Shopify has developed high-leverage projects like Shop Pay. Explaining how it works, the website states: “Every time a customer places an order using Shop Pay, Shopify funds carbon removal to counteract the impact on the planet at no extra cost”.
Shopify has also pledged to purchase carbon removal during the Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) to reduce shipping emissions from every single order placed during the busiest shopping season. In the last two years, Shopify had offset a total of over 120,000 tonnes of carbon.
McKinsey Tie-up
Recently, it partnered with McKinsey Sustainability to develop permanent carbon removal technologies. The global management consulting firm has generated a $925 million fund for an eight-year advanced market commitment (AMC), thanks to Shopify, Alphabet, Meta and Stripe. The joint venture is named ‘Frontier’.
Shopify’s partnership with McKinsey has come in line with the McKinsey Platform for Climate Technologies, a McKinsey Sustainability initiative for a sustainable future. Explaining the platform, the company writes: “MPCT focuses on helping clients plan, execute and scale net-zero technologies in recognition of this urgent call to action. And while we have prioritized helping clients achieve net zero emissions, we’re also deeply committed to it ourselves. Last year, we pledged to achieve net-zero climate impact as a firm by 2030”.
