CO₂ is released during the production of your print products. As a manufacturing company, the printing company printworld.com offers you the "Climate Contribution" option, giving you the opportunity to financially support climate protection projects in addition to production. With your climate contribution, you provide financial support to recognized climate protection projects and thereby make an indirect contribution to reducing greenhouse gases harmful to the climate.
Transparency notice: What the financial climate contribution means
For your print order, the greenhouse gas emissions of production within a defined system boundary are calculated on the basis of an industry-standard average value. This average value reflects typical emissions from print production and is not based solely on printworld.com's own emissions data.
The system boundary includes the direct greenhouse gas emissions from the production process at the print facility (Scope 1), the indirect emissions from the energy used for production (Scope 2), and the upstream supply chain emissions related to production (Scope 3).
The calculation therefore represents an estimate, based on an industry-standard average, of the greenhouse gas emissions from the production of your print order. It is not an individually measured emissions balance for the specific production process, nor a statement about the climate impact of the print product's entire life cycle. In addition, you can financially support climate protection projects. This financial climate contribution is separate from the emissions calculation for the print order. Supporting a climate protection project means neither that the calculated production emissions are avoided, nor that the print product thereby becomes emission-free, CO₂e-neutral, or climate neutral.
Information on the supported project, the relevant certification standard, the amount of the financial climate contribution, and the order-specific assignment can be found via your Climate/Product ID.
Communicating the climate contribution on your print product
Of course, you are welcome to communicate your financial support of certified climate protection projects on your print product. Once you have set up your order with the service option "Climate Contribution > with financial climate contribution", we will provide you with a label bearing the order-specific Climate/Product ID under the "Print Data Upload" tab. You can download this label as a PDF and place it on your print product before uploading your print file. The label is intended exclusively for your order. This allows you and your customers to see at any time how much greenhouse gas was generated during the production of your order and which climate protection project you financially supported.
The label used is the ClimatePartner label "Product with Financial Climate Contribution." It is awarded on the basis of the Financial Climate Contribution Standard and the corresponding certification process. The underlying information can be traced via the order-specific ID.
Important note:
The label provided may only be used for the associated order and in the form provided by ClimatePartner. In particular, it must not be combined with claims such as "climate neutral," "CO₂ neutral," "carbon offset," or comparable product claims.
How to have your print product printed while financially supporting climate protection projects
1. Financial support for climate protection projects
With your financial contribution, you support climate protection projects certified according to internationally recognized standards. Information on the respective projects, standards, and verifications can be found via your order-specific Climate/Product ID. Please note that the emissions calculated for your print order are not neutralized by the financial climate contribution. The climate contribution serves as additional financial support for certified climate protection projects outside the value chain of the print product.
2. Product labeling and transparent presentation of the process
For every print order produced with the "Climate Contribution" option, you receive a label with an order-specific ID. By entering the Climate/Product ID at ClimatePartner, you can see the quantity of emissions calculated for your order and which climate protection project is being financially supported.
What makes a climate protection project?
Depending on the specific climate protection project, CO₂ emissions can either be avoided – for example, through the use of renewable energy sources – or reduced or removed from the atmosphere through technological or ecological measures – for example, through reforestation. The emission reductions reported under the respective project standard are documented and reviewed by independent, accredited validation and verification bodies (VVBs). The project operator can finance the project through the sale of certified emission reductions. The supported projects are subject to the criteria of their respective designated project standard. Further information is available via the Climate/Product ID.
Which climate protection project are you supporting?
With your financial climate contribution, you are supporting the ClimatePartner portfolio "Expansion of Renewable Energy in Asia" (ClimatePartner ID 7017). The portfolio combines several climate protection projects. The individual sub-projects are certified under either the Gold Standard or the Verified Carbon Standard, as designated. Which sub-projects and standards are specifically allocated to your climate contribution can be traced via the order-specific Climate/Product ID.
The portfolio supports various sub-projects in several Asian countries, including:
- Wind energy projects in India, Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia, and Turkey,
- Solar energy projects in India and China,
- Hydropower projects in Turkey, China, and Sri Lanka,
- Biogas and biomass projects in India, China, and Thailand, and
- Gas processing projects in China.
Under the requirements of the "Gold Standard for the Global Goals," certified projects must demonstrate a verifiable positive contribution to at least three UN Sustainable Development Goals, one of which is SDG 13, "Climate Action." The reported impacts are subject to the standard's requirements and independent review.
The ClimatePartner portfolio with ID 7017 covers the following three UN Sustainable Development Goals:
SDG 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy
Increasing the share of renewable energy in regional and national power grids.
SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
Promote sustainable economic growth and decent work for all – fostering sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all.
SDG 13 – Climate Action
Measures are being taken to combat climate change and its impacts.