The next MAL milestone: CO₂ Data for Natural Latex Production
We would like to share with you one of our latest achievements that has been particularly important for us: CO₂ Data for Natural Latex Production and in that way documenting emissions within the stated system boundaries. As of our products is a key matter for us, the reduction of our carbon emissions is consequently very high in our agenda.
The problem of carbon emissions and the resulting Greenhouse Effect has long become a matter of vital importance for humankind. The Kyoto Agreement has laid the foundation and provided guidance, in which direction countries, organizations, companies and individuals should go in order to secure survival of humankind on this planet for the generations to come as well.
It is one of our central concerns to document emissions associated with our natural latex production within the stated system boundaries.
The basis: Studies have shown that consistently forgoing artificial fertilizers and pesticides can reduce carbon emissions compared with conventional latex production. Since we are exclusively using raw material from agriculture for our production, this was the foundation we could build on.
As a next step, it was our aim to drastically reduce the use of fossil fuels in the Organic natural latex production and to switch to alternative energy sources. We have mastered this challenge with a great deal of imagination and persistence. 
The aim was then to document CO₂ emissions associated with our natural latex production in India according to the “Cradle to Port System” and transparently account for the remaining emissions. Any separate compensation measures are not presented as reductions of production emissions; documented production-emission data are treated separately.
What’s more: The Kyoto Agreement does not take into account that the rubber plantations, from where we receive the natural latex milk for our production, already absorb or rather neutralize a considerable amount of greenhouse gases. Studies have demonstrated that latex plantations absorb carbon dioxide from the air over time. If we were allowed to include this aspect into the calculation of the “Cradle to Port System”, we could potentially move closer to CO2-accountedity without the purchase of VCUs!
We wish continued strength and perseverance to you as our Organic partners in our shared struggle for reduced carbon emissions, in short: for our future.
Does that sound interesting? Would you like to learn more about the documented CO2 data and its stated system boundaries?
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