Impact Report
Impact Report
We publish what we measure. This page carries our live energy and emissions data, the methodology behind every number, our supplier diversity commitments, and progress against our targets — including the ones we haven’t hit yet.
Overall B Impact Score
101.1B Lab assesses a company’s entire operation — how it treats workers, suppliers, the community and the environment. A score of 80 is the bar for certification. The median score for a business that completes the assessment is 50.9.
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The numbers above show how many of our partners currently share this data with us, and the goal we are working toward. As we build longer relationships, we aim to bring more partners into the reporting program — with care, and with respect for their privacy and working conditions.
Artisan partner performance
Energy and emissions by partner, updated as bills come in.
About this data
Thuli × DVAA works directly with artisans, cooperatives, and small workshops across India and the United States. Most of our partners don’t produce formal carbon reports, so we built a standardised method to track energy use and emissions fairly and accurately.
Every calculation starts from an actual electricity bill, applies an official regional emission factor, and uses a transparent allocation percentage. We only count the energy genuinely used for Thuli production — many of our artisans work from home studios shared with family life and other work, and it would be dishonest to charge all of that to us.
Regional reference values
Every figure below comes from a government agency or a recognised emissions database. Nothing here is our own estimate.
What this data enables
Three reasons the measurement is worth the effort.
B Corp reporting
A standardised carbon footprint we can put in front of B Lab, rather than an estimate we’d have to defend.
ESG tracking
Data in a shape that carbon-accounting platforms can actually ingest, so we aren’t re-keying it every year.
Working with partners
A shared, honest baseline we can sit down with an artisan partner and improve on together.
How we calculate it
Every emissions figure on this page follows these three steps, in order.
Step 1 — Total energy consumption
Convert the bill amount into kilowatt-hours using the regional electricity rate.
Example: ₹4,451 ÷ ₹9.60/kWh = 463.64 kWh consumed
Step 2 — Allocated energy
Apply an allocation percentage, because many partners work with more than one brand or from a shared space.
Example: 463.64 kWh × 90% = 417.28 kWh attributed to Thuli
Step 3 — Carbon emissions
Convert energy into emissions using the regional grid emission factor.
Why divide by 1,000? Emission factors are published in kg CO₂; we report in tonnes.
Why we built this
Most of our artisan partners don’t generate carbon reports. Bills vary month to month, tariffs differ by state, and many partners rely on a household meter shared with family life. Rather than guess, we built one method and applied it consistently:
- Be fair to artisans. Count only the electricity genuinely used for Thuli production, not everything on the meter.
- Be accurate. Use location-specific tariffs and emission factors for Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and New Jersey rather than a global average.
- Be auditable. Every number traces back to an official source or a documented assumption.
- Be legible. Anyone, technical or not, should be able to follow how a number moves from a bill to a tonne of CO₂.
Supplier diversity policy
How we choose who we work with, and what we hold ourselves to.
Procurement preference for diverse-owned suppliers
Thuli gives procurement preference to suppliers owned or led by women, people of colour, and members of underrepresented communities. When we evaluate a new artisan partner, ownership diversity is a weighted factor alongside craft quality, ethical practice, and environmental standards. We define underrepresented groups in line with the B Lab framework — taking into account gender, ethnicity, immigration background, age, disability, and low-income status.
Ownership diversity tracking
We keep an internal Supplier & Impact Metrics workbook recording each vendor’s ownership demographics, women-led or underrepresented-community status, and business scale. It is reviewed annually and it informs who we onboard next. All COGS vendors are tracked.
FY2025 supplier diversity targets
Formal commitments, set against our FY2024 baseline. Three met, one still short.
Impact metrics
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