Understanding our environmental impact starts with knowing exactly where our products come from. We’ve been mapping our supply chain for social and environmental, as well as commercial benefits, for a number of years. It’s a process, but we’re committed to seeking transparency and engagement from all of our manufacturing partners, including fabric, trims, and yarns.

We've partnered with industry experts Fairly Made to ensure our commitment to responsible sourcing and manufacturing is verifiable and actionable:

• Achieving deep-level mapping and visibility across our supply chain.
• Calculating Product Environmental Footprints for our products.

This detailed data also helps us calculate our overall Company Carbon Footprint, as our products form the bulk of our Scope 3 (indirect) Greenhouse Gas emissions.

Supply chain transparency is an important part of improving traceability and calculating our footprint, but we’re also using this information for carbon footprint reduction. We’re setting decarbonisation targets that are fully aligned with the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), and the global commitment to limit global warming by 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels.

To get a carbon footprint baseline to measure our targets against, we're calculating our carbon equivalent impact (tCO2e and kgCO2e - tonnes and kilograms of CO2 equivalent) for our emissions. We're then using a common 'Intensity Ratio' so we can show our progress, whether the business grows or shrinks in future years.

Under the SBTi, 'Scopes' are a way to categorise a company's greenhouse gas emissions:

Scope 1: Direct emissions from company vehicles, or fuel burned in boilers for heating.

Scope 2: Indirect emissions, such as energy purchased for electricity, heating, or cooling.

Scope 3: All other indirect emissions, like manufacturing, shipping, customer use of products, business travel, and our waste. This is typically the largest part of a company's footprint.