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Brands fail to cut emissions: Standearth

  

Fashion companies are setting topline net-zero targets. But most targets exclude the majority of their supply chains and the sector is still not tackling the emissions arising from the excessive use of synthetic materials. So says environmental NGO Standearth, which assessed ten large fashion firms’ plans.

Additionally, many of these brands’ targets have loopholes for the supply chain, despite the fact that most large fashion firms will see the majority of their emissions footprint being upstream.

Just two of the companies, H&M and Kering, have pledged to at least halve their Scope 3 (indirect) emissions this decade.These same two companies are the only two committed to 100 per cent renewable energy across the supply chain by 2030.Only half of the brands assessed had set independent targets to phaseout thermal coal in supply chains. None share baseline data on coal use in supply chains.None of the companies have emissions targets that cover the entirety of their supply chains with no exclusions.

None of the ten companies have public targets to reduce fossil-fuel-derived material use this decade. This is despite the fact that these materials represent around 20 per cent of the fashion sector’s emissions footprint.

 
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