Cookie Consent by Free Privacy Policy website The Fashion Pact: first steps towards industry transformation
ottobre 13, 2020 - Fashion Ppact

The Fashion Pact: first steps towards industry transformation

Comunicato Stampa disponibile solo in lingua originale. 

  • For the first time in the #fashion industry, the #fashionpact unites CEOs of 60+ global leading companies from the #fashion and textile industry - #fashion, sports, lifestyle and luxury as well as suppliers and retailers – committing to a common core of ambitious quantified environmental objectives focusing on three themes: climate, biodiversity and oceans
  • Members have identified seven strategic tangible targets – across the three themes – with the support of some of the best technical experts, particularly in the whitespaces where collaborative action is needed to scale solutions in order to achieve critical impact on a global scale.
  • One year since its creation, membership has doubled to 60+ signatories, stemming across multiple sectors and 14 countries, together representing over 200 brands and 1/3 of the #fashion industry. This level of diversity and reach is key to ensure end-to-end impact along the supply chain.
  • The #fashionpact is still at the beginning of its impact. The coalition has made its first strides, including implementing an operations structure, developing a digital dashboard of KPIs to measure joint impact as well as begin first collaborative activity on biodiversity together with the technical expertise of industry experts.

Last Year, “The #fashion Pact” was created and presented to heads of state during the G7 meeting at #biarritz.  32 groups and brands in luxury, #fashion, and sports and lifestyle had decided to join this new industry coalition and to commit to collectively spearhead transformative industry change though action and by building upon and going beyond existing initiatives. 

Since its establishment the #fashionpact has organised itself as a CEO-led coalition, led particularly by a rotating 14-member Steering Committee, supported by a CSO 23-member Operations Committee and a secretariat Task Force. 

The signatories have set 7 tangible targets on behalf of climate, biodiversity, oceans, supported by some of the leading experts across research, science, and conservation. 

In order to measure progress and streer actions towards impact, the pact has established a digital dashboard of KPIs around its three pillars, developed with the strategic reporting support of Boston Consulting Group (BCG).

Climate

The #fashion Pact’s signatories have committed towards the implementation of Science Based Targets (SBTs) for Climate to achieve net-zero carbon impact by 2050:

1)            implementing the principles of the U.N. #fashion Charter, 2) achieving 25% low-impact materials sourcing by 2025, and 3) achieving 50% renewable energy by 2025, and 100% by 2030.

In order to deliver on these targets, the #fashionpact is engaging with key climate experts in the industry, starting with 2050 & SYSTEMIQ who have mapped out strategic areas for collective efforts, without duplicating existing initiatives, to inform business decisions and to provide assistance in accurate reporting and target-setting. 

Within most companies, significant individual action is already underway to reduce GHG emissions, such that together signatories have reduced ~350-450k tons of GHG emissions (CO2 equivalent) across Scope 1 & 2. Members achieved significant progress towards the transition to lower climate impact raw material with for example ~40% in cotton as well as having 1/3 of signatories on track to achieving 50% renewable energy in 2020. 

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is still an emergent issue of focus within the #fashion industry, but crucial for business reliant on nature-based resources. Concretely, in this pillar, the #fashionpact has committed to the protection of key species as well as the protection and restoration of critical natural ecosystems.

Committed to driving action routed in technical expertise and science, The #fashionpact and Conservation International have worked towards three main outcomes: first, a calculated and detailed plan of action for the next two years for both individual and collective action. Second, the building of partnerships with key global experts and institutions to support the technical work. Third, the scouting for support for the scientific analyses and approaches that will help shape our biodiversity outcomes. 

To kick-off first actions, The #fashionpact has come together in a series of webinars, named the “Nature of Fashion”, where , together with key conservation experts, members worked jointly on topics such as how to map your supply chain for biodiversity, creating Science Based Targets for Nature, and developing biodiversity strategies.

As first tangible targets, members have committed to:

  • individual biodiversity blueprints by the end of 2020, and
  • supporting zero deforestation and sustainable forest management by 2025.

80% of signatories had not had a public biodiversity commitment prior to joining the #fashionpact, and 50% have reported that their membership has inspired their organization’s development of actions or commitments to prevent deforestation. 

Oceans

In the Oceans pillar, The #fashion Pact’s first area of focus is on eliminating problematic and unnecessary plastic in packaging (including polybags, hangers, consumer packaging, and retail bags).  Signatories will:

  • achieve its elimination in B2C packaging by 2025 and in B2B by 2030, and
  • will ensure that at least half of other plastic packaging in B2C is 100% recycled content by 2025, and by 2030 for B2B.

These first actions were selected as the #fashionpact is dedicated to making tangible impact and achieving the targets will require scaling innovation and successful pilots, a sphere where the coalition is uniquely equipped to leverage its weight to accelerate impact. 

Individual achievement in this space is varied - for example, 60% of signatory brands have eliminated plastic packaging in their retail bags, whereas there have been a lot of challenges in hangers and B2B transport bags, with only 15% of signatories having achieved elimination. Despite the different levels of advancements, collective action can scale innovation to close the gap.

The #fashionpact is currently working with (RE)SET to call innovators to action & use weight of the collective to scale innovative solutions. 

ABOUT THE #fashion PACT

The #fashionpact is a global coalition of companies in the #fashion and textile industry (ready-towear, sport, lifestyle and luxury) who have all committed to a common core of key environmental goals in three areas: mitigating climate change, restoring biodiversity and protecting the oceans.

Launched by French President, Emmanuel Macron, the #fashionpact was presented to Heads of State at the G7 Summit in #biarritz.

Uniquely, the #fashionpact is CEO-led, action-oriented, and focuses on building upon and going beyond existing efforts.

Today, the pact has over 60 members, together representing over 1/3 of the #fashion industry, each eager to leverage collective action to scale and achieve impact.

SIGNATORIES

ADIDAS • AIGLE • ALDO GROUP • AUCHAN RETAIL • BALLY • BESTSELLER • BONAVERI •

BURBERRY • CALZEDONIA GROUP • CAPRI HOLDINGS LIMITED • CARREFOUR • CELIO •

CHANEL • DAMARTEX GROUP • DCM JENNYFER • DECATHLON • DIESEL • EL CORTE

INGLÉS • ERALDA • ERMENEGILDO ZEGNA • ETAM GROUP • EVERYBODY & EVERYONE •

FARFETCH • FASHIONCUBE • FIGARET • FUNG GROUP • GANT • GAP INC. • GEOX •

GRUPPO ARMANI • GROUPE BEAUMANOIR • GROUPE GALERIES LAFAYETTE • GROUPE

ERAM • GROUPE IDKIDS • GROUPE ROSSIGNOL • H&M GROUP • HERMÈS • HERNO •

HOUSE OF BAUKJEN • INDITEX • KARL LAGERFELD • KERING • KIABI • MANGO •

MATCHESFASHION • MONCLER • MONOPRIX • NIKE, INC. • NOABRANDS • NORDSTROM •

PAUL & JOE • PRADA S.P.A. • PROMOD • PUMA SE • PVH CORP. • RALPH LAUREN • RUYI • SALVATORE FERRAGAMO • SELFRIDGES GROUP • STELLA MCCARTNEY • TAPESTRY •TENDAM