Our Carbon Report
At Alara, we measure the carbon embedded in our products so we can understand our impact and reduce it over time. This page sets out our latest figures and the research informing our approach.
Our approach to carbon removal
Alara funds Inga agroforestry in the Ecuadorian Amazon, working from the science set out by Professor Martin Lukac. His research shows that Inga trees rebuild degraded soil and lock away carbon through tree growth, soil organic carbon, while helping farmers stop clearing new rainforest. In his analysis, a maturing Inga tree which Alara helps grow can sequester 250kg of CO2e over a 20-year cycle. See the documents below for the full research and Professor Lukac’s profile.
Carbon sequestration potential of Inga agroforestry in Ecuador
Professor Martin Lukac — background and expertise
Looking ahead
Our ambition is to keep reducing the carbon embedded in our products and to be transparent about our progress.
Alara Wholefoods · Embedded carbon · Updated August 2026
What our food cost the atmosphere this year
Every month we add up the carbon embedded in the ingredients we bought and the food we sold, add its packaging and transport, and publish the result here. Months we haven’t closed yet are left blank rather than estimated.
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CO2e from the ingredients, packaging and transport behind everything we’ve sold in 2026 so far.
The ledger
| Month | Ingredients | Packaging | Transport | Total CO2e |
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| Jan 2026 | 10.070 | 2.449 | 1.252 | 13.771 |
| Feb 2026 | 8.864 | 2.240 | 1.110 | 12.214 |
| Mar 2026 | 9.166 | 2.327 | 1.149 | 12.642 |
| Apr 2026 | 8.939 | 2.423 | 1.136 | 12.498 |
| May 2026 | 8.011 | 2.176 | 1.019 | 11.206 |
| Jun 2026 | 14.389 | 3.604 | 1.799 | 19.792 |
| Jul 2026 | 10.905 | 2.855 | 1.376 | 15.136 |
| Year to date | 70.344 | 18.074 | 8.842 | 97.260 |
How this is worked out
Counted. Three things. The carbon embedded in every ingredient in every recipe, measured from our own production records and multiplied by what we actually sold. The packaging that food goes out in. And transport, added as a flat 10% on top of the other two. All three are in every figure above.
The giving. For every tonne above we contribute to Rainforest Saver, who work with farmers on Inga alley cropping — rows of a nitrogen-fixing tree with the crop grown in the alleys between them.
So. As the Inga grows it draws carbon out of the air and holds it in wood and soil. It is that sequestered carbon, and nothing else, that we count against the totals above.