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SUSTAINABILITY

TAHA and sustainability

For the health of our planet, and the health of generations to come.

TAHA Health & Nutrition uses dairy protein from grass-fed, free-range cows in New Zealand. New Zealand's traditional farming practices create dairy products with a lower carbon footprint than most other dairy-producing countries in the world. Our products are also certified net carbon zero by Toitū Envirocare.

A farmer in the Waikato region of New Zealand pats his Holstein-Friesian cow, which is grazing on green grass. A couple of other cows and green trees are in the background.

A 2lb pouch of TAHA natural unflavored whey protein on a light blue background.

Waves breaking onto the beach along the Piha coastline in New Zealand.

Yah we are net carbon zero!

Toitū net carbon zero

We are proud to announce that all TAHA products' are certified carbon zero by Toitū net carbon zero product certification. Toitū net carbon zero certification verifies that our products’ greenhouse gas emissions have been measured in accordance with ISO 14067:2018. It shows we are committed to managing and reducing the emissions, and we will neutralize the remaining unavoidable emissions through carbon credits.

Our net carbon zero journey

Measure

We work with Toitū Envirocare - to calculate the entire carbon footprint of our proteins from field to beyond.

Reduce

We partner with New Zealand farmer co-op, Fonterra, who utilizes third party companies to validate their on-farm, manufacturing and finished product quality standards. They also measure the carbon footprint of their dairy products.

Offset

What we can’t eliminate, we offset with Toitū verified high-quality carbon credits from international sources. The projects that we support generate carbon credits through either reducing or avoiding the production of emissions.

Fair Trade

We also support Fair Trade projects when they are available, which means that they project meet extra requirements such as Fairtrade Minimum Price and Fair Trade premium which offers an additional sum for the community involved to put towards climate adaptation activities. Supporting Fair Trade initiatives means not only carbon reduction, but also helping to create stronger, more empowered communities.

LEARN ABOUT THE SUSTAINABLE CAUSES TAHA SUPPORTS →

A woman in a traditional blue-patterned dress and headscarf is stirring boiling shea nuts in a large caldron with a stick.

A woman in a turquoise vertically stripped T-shirt and orange, pink, and black long skirt is making a flatbread on a large round clay-style wood-fired stove.

An Indian man with grey hair and a mustache standing on a roof in front of solar panels. There are palm trees surrounding the building.

Birds, Bees and Business (Fair trade)

In the south of Burkina Faso, many women depend on the harvest and processing of shea nuts, a raw material for food, but also for many care products. However, the habitat of the shea trees is deteriorating rapidly.

Climate change and pressure on the land as a result of the use of pesticides and overgrazing has affected the landscape of the shea trees. But the processing of shea nuts by the local women also has an impact on the environment. Cooking the nuts on a traditional “three stone fire” in particular means that a lot of wood is used.

This project offers local women the opportunity to use improved cookstoves, using ‘F3PA’ cookstoves made from local materials. These reduce wood consumption by 23.4% and thus reduce pressure on sourcing wood from local trees.

The project also trains women in a Climate Academy. Examples of activities are planting different trees, which leads to a more diverse landscape. This attracts bees and other insects, which in turn leads to better pollination and agricultural production. Women will benefit from an increase in the yield and sales of shea nuts and other (tree) products.

Co-benefits: Cleaner and safer cooking prevents inhalation of harmful smoke and burns, less pressure on local wood resources and protection of coffee forests, Women experience the convenience of cookstoves and can spend more time on family and education, Time savings and savings on fuel costs due to reduced wood use, local employment through the production of cookstoves.

Cookstoves for Coffee Farmers (Fair trade)

Ethiopia is the country where coffee was first discovered and where Arabica coffee originally comes from. Coffee is the largest export product and plays an important role in Ethiopian culture. Arabica originally grows here in the forest where the foliage of the shade trees protects the coffee bushes against temperature fluctuations. However, due to the increasing population pressure in the country, we are seeing increasing deforestation. This not only removes the shade trees, but also the unique wild types of coffee that grow in the coffee forests of Oromia. These varieties vary in tolerance to disease and drought and can be used for the development of new coffee varieties. These forests are therefore crucial for the survival of coffee in a changing climate.

In the areas where the coffee farmers live, cooking is often done indoors on an open wood fire. This is very harmful to the health of mainly women and children. In addition, the use of wood is a major cause of deforestation in the region. Via the cookstove program, farmer families are provided with a Mirt and a Tikikil, efficient cookstoves that reduce wood consumption and significantly reduce indoor smoke development.

Eight local Mirt and Tikikil workshops have now been set up and more than 6,000 households are equipped with efficient cookstoves. Users indicate that they suffer less from smoking-related complaints, such as coughing, burning eyes and headaches. Women who gather wood save on average about ten working hours a week or 2 to 3 euros a week if the wood has to be bought.

Orb Household Solar

With a growing middle class in India, demand for electricity outstrips supply causing regular blackouts for those connected to the grid. In rural areas, kerosene or other fossil fuels are used for energy and lighting, polluting the air inside homes.

This project has brought over 160,000 reliable solar power and solar water heating systems to customers throughout the country, while cutting around 55,000 tonnes of CO2e a year by replacing the use of kerosene or electricity from a grid reliant on fossil fuels.

Orb Energy manufactures, sells, installs and services a unique range of high-quality solar energy systems for residential and commercial customers in India. Businesses can operate for longer and more consistently with a solar energy system. Household solar water heating reduces electricity bills by more than 50% and lighting at home means greater opportunity for children to study after the sun goes down.

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