Maple Leaf Foods becomes first carbon-neutral major food company worldwide
Maple Leaf has made significant progress toward its goal to reduce its environmental footprint by 50% by 2025.
Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Canada, announced a step forward on its sustainability journey, as it becomes what is said to be the first major food company in the world to be carbon neutral.
Maple Leaf's path to carbon neutrality is predicated on aggressively reducing emissions by meeting the gold standard of Science Based Targets, which align global greenhouse gas emission reductions with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change. In doing so, the company becomes one of just three animal protein companies in the world to set Science Based Targets, approved by the international Science Based Target Initiative.