Zevero-Supported Tomato Farm Nijimachi Earns B Corp Certification
The certification shows a decarbonization data startup's platform work can carry a regional agricultural business to an international sustainability standard.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Zevero, a global startup providing sustainability platforms and consulting, supported Nijimachi Co., Ltd., a tomato producer in Handa City, Aichi Prefecture, in obtaining B Corp certification. Zevero visualized the farm's greenhouse gas emissions (Scope 1-3) and organized its environmental efforts as objective data, lifting the Environment category evaluation. Nijimachi practices circular agriculture using heat and CO2 from an adjacent biogas power generation facility, with 95-100% water use efficiency.
B Corp is an international certification run by the U.S. nonprofit B Lab. It evaluates companies across five categories: Governance, Workers, Community, Environment, and Customers, and only those scoring 80 points or more qualify. More than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Patagonia and Danone, hold the certification.
Nijimachi's Environment score rested on circular agriculture. The farm grows tomatoes using heat and CO2 piped from an adjacent biogas power generation facility, and reports 95-100% water use efficiency through drip irrigation, drainage collection and reuse, and rainwater recycling. Its Workers and Community scores drew on safety and health policies, health checkups and stress checks, and agricultural-welfare collaboration with local employment support facilities.
Zevero calculated and visualized Nijimachi's Scope 1-3 greenhouse gas emissions on its platform and organized the farm's environmental efforts as objective data for the review. It will continue supporting data preparation and evidence organization after certification.
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- ASCII.jp Zevero、支援先の株式会社にじまちがB Corp(TM)認証を取得