The term Carbon Neutral or Climate Neutral, refers to a company conducting its activities in a way that it compensates for all of its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions produced on an annual basis.

Every business creates greenhouse gases as part of their day-to-day operations. The goal is to be able to measure and understand what is driving your GHG emissions, find ways to reduce them as much as possible, then offset any remaining emissions to achieve neutrality.

Yes. Every Multigate Procedure Pack purchased after 1 July 2022 is supplied Climate Neutral and the process validated by Carbon Neutral (www.carbonneutral.com.au). This applies to all off-the-shelf or custom procedure packs purchased, whether they are existing or new recipes. The amount of GHG emissions we offset on your behalf under this program is based on your sales volume.

A "Cloud shaped icon with CO2 Neutral" has been added to the label on our Procedure Packs as a visual confirmation of this commitment. Rest assured, every Multigate Procedure Pack sold in Australia from 1 July 2022 is Climate Neutral… irrespective of whether the pack label contains a "CO2 Neutral" icon or not.

Multigate will provide you with a comprehensive report detailing the GHG emissions associated with your pack portfolio and the amount we have offset on your behalf, which you will be able to use as part of your carbon accounting process.

As we have taken ownership for the climate change impact of the packs supplied to you and offset their cradle-to-grave GHG emissions, your Multigate Procedure Pack Portfolio will effectively have a GHG emissions value of zero.

We will provide you with this information on an annual basis, however if you have any questions or would like this information, please contact your Multigate Business Development Manager.

We have already identified several ways we can reduce the impact of our products which we look forward to sharing with you and we are exploring new opportunities all the time. An example of an change we have implemented is our cotton-to-composite sponge initiative. Our first initiative, which was to phase out 5.3 million cotton abdominal sponges and transition all customers to composite is estimated to have reduced the greenhouse gas emissions associated with this product range by 212 tonnes. Switching from your current Multigate hollowware to our new CubeWare 2.0 hollowware is estimated to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of 30%.  

Multigate use 3rd party specialists to assess our impact and guide our environmental stewardship and carbon neutrality programs.

We partnered with Lifecycles (www.lifecycles.com.au), a Melbourne based environmental management consulting company, to conduct Lifecycle Assessments (LCA) and to develop and build LCA modelling tools that help us understand and measure the impact of our products through multiple lenses (not just climate change) across their entire "cradle-to-grave" life cycle.

Multigate also partners with Carbon Neutral (www.carbonneutral.com.au) to calculate and offset our greenhouse gas emissions in line with program boundaries and requirements set by Carbon Neutral to validate our neutrality claim and allow Multigate to use their labels. 

Claiming Climate Neutrality for your company operations or products is an ongoing voluntary commitment that involves you measuring your impact, reducing it where possible, offsetting the remaining emissions to achieve "neutrality" and reporting on your progress. It is a highly structured, audited process that is based on best practice and a science-based approach to calculating emissions (e.g. greenhouse gas protocol, life cycle assessment etc.)

Your ability to claim climate neutrality is based on a pay-it-forward system. Most companies use the impact of their previous years’ sales as the forecast for the up-and-coming year, and they pre-purchase carbon credits to offset this estimated impact amount to achieve neutrality. This pay-it-forward investment then entitles you to claim climate neutrality for next 12 months.

When it comes time to renew your commitment, part of the assessment performed is to determine if the amount previously offset was sufficient or not. If your forecasted impact was higher than your actual impact for the period, you are entitled to deduct the additional credits already purchased against your renewal balance. If your forecasted impact was lower than your actual impact, you need to buy additional credits to make up this difference before you can renew your commitment and claim neutrality for the next 12 months.

Carbon credits are a universally accepted and traded currency issued by approved climate action projects that reduce, remove, or avoid greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. A project can sell 1 carbon credit for every tonne of GHG emission it can reduce, remove or avoid.

The credits are purchased and retired by individuals or companies for the purposes of offsetting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

A prerequisite for projects issuing carbon credits is "additionality." A GHG reduction is only considered additional if it would not have occurred in the absence of a carbon credit market. If the reductions would have happened anyway, then they are not additional.

For example: you cannot purchase a piece of land with a forest on it and seek to sell its GHG emissions absorption capability as carbon credits, as the forest already existed and was already absorbing GHG emissions. To be considered additional, the forest would have needed to be planted with the express purpose being used to produce carbon credits.

By enforcing this requirement and providing financial incentive for individuals or companies to invest in these activities, additional resources that tackle climate change are created.