December Dispatch: Closing the Year With Climate Momentum ❄️
Bringing our agri-food and sustainability community together for a festive time of connection, collaboration, and climate-forward conversations.
❄️ Happy Holidays from the Carbonhound Team!
As we wrap up an exciting year of climate action, collaboration, and growth, we want to extend a heartfelt thank-you to our community. Whether you joined an event, shared feedback, partnered with us, or took steps to strengthen your climate program, we’re grateful to be on this journey with you.
Here’s to a season of rest, connection, and celebration — and to even bigger momentum in the year ahead.
Wishing you a joyful holiday break and a bright, climate-positive start to 2026.
From all of us at Carbonhound, happy holidays!
🌾 Event Recap: A Big Night for Canada’s Sustainable Food Future
What an incredible evening! Carbonhound and RBC kicked off Canada Climate Week Xchange (CCWX) with a packed house at Carbonhound HQ and an engaged virtual audience tuning in from across the country. The energy was high, the conversations were bold, and the vision for Canada as a global sustainable food superpower felt more achievable than ever.
The night brought together farmers, producers, manufacturers, retailers, and innovators for a dynamic fireside chat and panel conversation that sparked big ideas and even bigger ambitions. Some standout takeaways:
Flavour truly starts in the field — and consumers want to know the story behind their food.
Canada’s “missing middle” is holding back our potential — it’s time to scale regional processing and value-added capacity.
Proof wins markets — data, traceability, and credible sustainability metrics are becoming global table stakes.
Sustainability = competitive edge — regenerative practices, packaging innovation, and operational efficiency drive resilience and cost savings.
Food security and competitiveness must rise together — they’re two sides of the same conversation.
A huge thank-you to our moderators - Sanders Lazier (CEO, Carbonhound) and Natasha Shute (RBC Sustainable Finance) - for guiding the conversations with clarity and candour.
🔥 A huge shout-out to our incredible speakers who brought the heat 🔥
Joshua Goodman– Sobeys
Taylor Stanley – Riverside Natural Foods Ltd. (Home of MadeGood)
Jason Persall – President, Persall Fine Foods Co.
Shane Harper – Head Farmer, Restaurant Pearl Morissette
The experience was rounded out with beautiful, sustainability-inspired bites from Miriam Echeverria and cocktails crafted by Mixology Matt, making the evening as delicious as it was inspiring.
We were also proud to support Second Harvest, because food leadership has to include food access.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in person, tuned in online, and helped drive this conversation forward. Stay tuned — photos, videos, and more insights are coming your way!
If you missed the event, click below!
🌿 Women In Food Industry Management: Insights Shaping 2025
Last week, our Growth Lead, Yunji Hwang, joined industry leaders at the Women In Food Industry Management (WFIM) event—and came back buzzing with inspiration from the sharp, candid conversations happening across Canada’s food and beverage sector.
The energy in the room highlighted several themes that are set to shape 2025:
Health & wellness is accelerating — from functional ingredients to better-for-you product lines, innovation cycles are speeding up.
Value pressure is reshaping choices — consumers want both affordability and quality, prompting tighter portfolio and sourcing decisions.
Sustainability is moving into action mode — companies are shifting from commitments to real implementation, especially around supply chain transparency, packaging progress, and credible climate reporting.
A standout moment was the keynote from Naniss Gadel-Rab (President, Mondelēz International), who emphasized that leadership isn’t about fitting a mold - it’s about breaking frames, leading with authenticity, and building trust through real, human conversation.
The night also had meaningful impact: together, attendees raised $7,500 for Food Banks Canada, helping strengthen food access in communities nationwide. ❤️
Huge thanks to WFIM for hosting such a thoughtful gathering, and to everyone who contributed to the conversations and the cause.
If you were there, we’d love to hear from you: which trend do you think will define Canadian F&B in 2025?
🤝 Partners in Project Green: Sustainability Leaders Social
🗓️ Thursday, January 29, 2026 | Carbonhound HQ, Toronto
Partners in Project Green is kicking off 2026 with their first event of the year, and we’re excited that Carbonhound’s office will be the venue for this gathering of sustainability leaders from across the Toronto region.
The Sustainability Leaders Social is a chance to reconnect after the holidays, swap ideas, meet new collaborators, and set the tone for another year of climate action. If you work in sustainability or are looking to get more plugged into the community, this is a great place to start.
PPG members attend for free — email julia.kole@trca.ca for your complimentary ticket code.
We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone into the space and helping kick off a new year of connection and collaboration.
📊 Customer Success Office Hours!
🗓️ Friday, December 5, 2025 | 12:00–1:00 PM ET
We’re excited to host the first edition of Office Hours CS, where our team goes live to unpack key climate topics, answer your questions, and give you a first look at what’s coming next. This session will focus on one of the most important—and often most challenging—areas of climate action:
➡️ Exploring & Expanding Your Scope 3
Whether you’re just starting to map your value chain emissions or looking to deepen your supplier engagement strategy, this session will help you understand where to focus, what to measure, and how to build momentum.
Reserve your spot now and join the conversation.
We’d love to see you there and help you keep strengthening your climate program.
After each session, you’ll receive a short follow-up with:
“What You Missed at Office Hours”
Key takeaways
Q&A highlights
Links to resources and materials
Sign up to join the conversation below, and mark your calendar for December 5!
📌 Finish Strong This Year – We’re Here to Help!
As we head into the final stretch of the year, now is the perfect time to make sure your emissions inventory is up to date and ready for 2026 reporting.
🧭 Keep Your Inventory on Track
Completing your operational and value chain data ahead of year-end ensures:
Confident reporting and climate disclosures
Smooth kickoff for next year’s GHG Inventory planning
Faster review from our team
🤝 Book Time With Us
We’re happy to support you through data collection, imports, methodology questions, and reporting setup.
📅 Reach out to your Customer Success representative to schedule dedicated working sessions — we’ll help you push your climate goals across the finish line.
Let’s close the year with confidence and momentum 🚀
🛠️ Product Updates
💸 Cost on Data, Part 1
You can now save cost-based data alongside your activity and emissions data! You will see these options in:
the emission source explorer table
the templates for data imports
your activity logs
All existing currency-based data has already been transferred and automatically included in the stored cost data.
Coming soon:
reporting by cost as a dimension
Concierge support for historically imported data
✨ Minor Features
FLAG GHG categories are now selectable when creating or editing an emission source
Land Management
Land Use Change
Carbon Removals & Sequestration
🐛 Bugs
Some non-functional visual issues introduced during other upgrades have been corrected
