Launched at the June Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2025, the Fashion Impact Toolkit is set to become a vital resource for textile companies navigating complex sustainability challenges. This interactive tool offers an impact inventory and a comprehensive framework designed for businesses throughout the entire textile value chain. This includes raw material producers, retailers, recyclers, and remanufacturers, and it's applicable across major sub-sectors like high-street fashion, luxury, footwear, sportswear, and textile manufacturing. It serves as an initial step for companies to map their areas of influence based on factors such as materials, processes, and geographies.
The Fashion Impact Toolkit will be a valuable resource for the textile industry as it navigates increasing regulatory and stakeholder pressure, states Federica Marchionni, CEO, Global Fashion Agenda. By identifying and addressing the most critical sustainability implications across the value chain, companies can foster greater resilience, build trust, and achieve long-term transformation, she adds.
The Toolkit details nearly 3,000 potential impacts, encompassing both challenges and opportunities, to aid leaders in their decision-making. Its foundation involves geographical scoping to pinpoint potential impacts across the main stages of the textile lifecycle. This results in a value chain mapping and impact inventory that highlight key hotspots and pressure points across six distinct stages: production of materials, garment manufacturing, product distribution and use, end-of-life management, material recycling, and high-value recovery activities.
Structured according to the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group’s (EFRAG) European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), the interactive Toolkit guides organizations through a seven-step framework. This includes identifying their position in the value chain, generating material- and geography-specific insights, translating sector-wide impacts to company-specific ones, quantifying identified potential impacts, defining risks and opportunities, shaping ambition and strategy, and collaborating for systemic change.
