Maple Leaf Foods Inc. is a leading consumer protein company, making high quality, innovative products under national brands including Maple Leaf®, Maple Leaf Prime®, Maple Leaf® Natural Selections®, Schneiders®, Schneiders® Country Naturals®, Mina® and Lightlife™.
The Company employs approximately 13,000 people and does business in North America and Asia. The Company is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario and its shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (MFI). In 2019, Maple Leaf Foods became the World’s First Major Carbon Neutral Food Company and is the only food company in Canada to adopt science-based emissions targets that are aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
Challenge Synopsis
In late November 2019, Maple Leaf Foods (Maple Leaf) announced that we had become the first major food company in the world to be carbon neutral. We are also one of just three animal protein companies globally and the only food company in Canada to set science-based GHG emissions targets (SBTs) that are aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. SBTs require that we reduce our emissions even as we grow.
Maple Leaf includes scope 1, 2 and a portion of our scope 3 emissions are part of our carbon neutral program. Aa significant portion of our Scope 1 GHG emissions (45% as of 2019) stem from manure management at our owned barns. Mitigation solutions are essential for us to decarbonize and reach our SBTs. Further, our Scope 3 sources (78.4% as of 2019), are significantly weighted to our contract pork producers, therefore Maple Leaf is very interested in options for emission reduction projects with supply chain partners as well.