Sustainability

 

Evol’s Commitment to Carbon Neutrality

At Evol, our commitment to good food goes well beyond ingredients and taste: we strive to produce sustainable foods, carbon neutral products, and sustainable frozen food packaging. Food sustainability is a driving force at Evol. We currently offer several ClimeCo (formerly CarbonFund) Certified Carbon Neutral Products to help protect our environment for years to come.

 

What Carbon Neutral Products Are Offered by Evol?

Evol offers eight certified carbon neutral products as part of our ongoing food sustainability efforts.

  • Truffle Parmesan Mac & Cheese
  • Fire Grilled Steak
  • Portabella & Goat Cheese Ravioli
  • Butternut Squash & Sage Ravioli
  • Chicken Enchilada Bake
  • Chipotle Chicken Mac & Cheese
  • Teriyaki Chicken
  • Three Cheese Tortellini

 

What Does Carbon Neutral Mean?

In short, being carbon neutral means offsetting the amount of carbon dioxide you emit into the atmosphere. Evol has partnered with ClimeCo to find the best ways to offset our Certified Carbon Neutral Products’ impact. The first step toward creating sustainable foods and becoming carbon neutral was to understand the relevant products’ initial carbon impact. Evol enlisted a third party to conduct a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which calculated the carbon footprint of the eight products so that we could work to take action to reduce and/or offset our emissions in the future.

Read Evol’s Life Cycle Assessment 

Using the findings from our Life Cycle Assessment, we were able to take the next step toward making the eight products Certified Carbon Neutral. For any emissions that our carbon neutral products do release, Evol supports renewable wind energy and forest conservation. Renewable wind energy reduces carbon emissions today, spurs investment in clean technologies, and helps create a low-carbon economy tomorrow, while forest conservation projects remove CO2 from the air and focus on planting and maintaining forested areas for the benefit and sustainability of future generations. For more information on how carbon offset works, visit https://carbonfund.org/everything-you-need-to-know-about-carbon-credits/.

California Assembly Bill 1305 Supplemental Information

This disclosure supports statements made regarding certain Evol branded products that those products are "Certified Carbon Neutral" through the Carbonfree Product Certification Program, which program has been transitioned to ClimeCo.  This disclosure is based on information available to Conagra Brands, Inc. as of the posting date and may not reflect new or updated information that became available after such date.  Conagra Brands, Inc. will update this disclosure, including providing any missing information that was unavailable at the time of posting, annually in accordance with California Assembly Bill 1305.

As part of the Carbonfree Product Certification Program, Conagra commissioned a third-party life-cycle assessment completed by WAP Sustainability Consulting, LLC to measure the carbon footprint of its eight Certified Carbon Neutral frozen single-serve meals, and then offset the identified carbon footprint with investments in renewable wind energy and forest preservation projects verified by ClimeCo (or its predecessor Carbonfund.org). 

As part of the certification of Evol brands products as “Certified Carbon Neutral”, Conagra R&F (PF), LLC, a subsidiary of Conagra Brands, Inc., purchased carbon offsets from the following programs or projects:

  • Hidden View Dairy Product
    • Identification Number: CAR489
    • Project Type: Livestock Gas Capture/Combustion
    • Site Location: US-IN
    • Protocol: Climate Action Reserve (CAR) U.S. Livestock Project Protocol (Version 4.0)
  • Ghani Solar Renewable Power Project by Greenko Group
    • Identification Number: VCS1792
    • Project Type: Energy industries (renewable/non-renewable sources)
    • Site Location: Andhra Pradesh, India
    • Protocol: Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) ACM0002
  • UPM Blandin Native American Hardwoods Conservation & Carbon Sequestration Project
    • Identification Number: ACR212
    • Project Type: Improved forestry management
    • Site Location: US-SC
    • Protocol: American Carbon Registry (ACR) Forest Carbon Project Standard, v2.1, November 2010
  • Capricorn Ridge 4 Wind Farm
    • Identification Number: VCS468
    • Project Type: Renewable Energy
    • Site Location: US-TX
    • Protocol: Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) ACM0002
  • Wind Energy project by Ramco group in India
    • Identification Number: VCS669
    • Project Type: Renewable Energy
    • Site Location: India
    • Protocol: Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) ACM0002
  • All projects are CO2e avoided emissions projects

Evol’s Food Sustainability Efforts Go Beyond Carbon Neutrality

Creating carbon neutral products is just the beginning. Evol strives for sustainable frozen food packaging. In fact, all of our paperboard cartons are recyclable, and we made the switch from 100% plastic bowls to paper-based bowls, which lowered the carbon footprint of our packaging by nearly 80%! Additionally, several Evol products - including all of our carbon neutral products - are produced in a TRUE Zero Waste Certified Facility, meaning that our facilities have diverted an average of 90% or greater waste from landfills or other waste reductions in the last 12 months.

Originally posted Jan. 1, 2024; Last updated: Jan. 2, 2025