Sustainability progress report 2017 - 2020
Measuring Our Footprint
If You Don’t Measure It, You Can’t Reduce It
Our Environmental Profit and Loss (EP&L) account is a pioneering tool that measures the environmental impact of all Kering’s activities…
Measuring Our Entire Footprint
Our EP&L account was designed to measure and monetize environmental impacts from our business activities in our own operations…
Increased Transparency For Even More Clarity
We’ve taken transparency one step further. To complement our EP&L reporting transparency, and as a first of its kind in the Luxury…
Helping Consumers Reduce Their Footprint Too
Our recently launched international survey will allow us to also look closely at consumer use and end of product life, to be incorporated…
Reducing our entire footprint
We’re reducing it but we won’t be happy until we reach our goal.
They take a holistic and responsible approach in the making of Kering’s Houses’ products – accounting for each step in the supply chain from farm, field or mine to finishing. We then updated the Kering Standards to encompass all our raw materials and new key areas.
These reflect growing concerns and interests in the industry around topics like regenerative agriculture and ‘faux fur’, as examples. Our standards act as a guide for our suppliers to ensure compliance with Kering’s environmental and social requirements. They are embedded in our supplier contracts and we work closely with our partners to ensure adherence to them. Since 2016, we’ve been rapidly increasing alignment with the Kering Standards. We’re proud we’re making progress.
Raw materials highlights
We increased our ethical gold as a Group totaling 100% of the Group’s gold purchase for jewelry and watches in 2019. Beyond Jewelry and Watches we’re also focused on galvanized gold for all the hardware in our House’s collections.
While fashion tends to overlook gold in hardware (and consequently does not tend to address galvanized gold for the gold-plated elements in hardware) because it’s a very complex supply chain, we’re prioritizing this. And overall for all ethical gold (which includes hardware) we are at 49% having purchased 5.5T of ethical gold for the Group since the creation of the Kering Ethical Gold Framework in 2015.
Overall for the Group’s leather we are 73% aligned with the Kering Standards and on track to reach 100% by 2025. When we dive deeper we can see we are 79% aligned for bovine leather and this accounts for 75% of all the Group’s leather.
As a Group we have been focused on sourcing more organic cotton and we have achieved 30% in our collections with the goal of 100% by 2025.
Manufacturing highlights
Clean By Design For An Eco-Friendly Solution
Inspiring change in everything we do is always our agenda. So, when the NRDC wanted to reduce the environmental impact of the textile industry (energy intensity and water use on production sites) with the Clean by Design initiative…
Managing chemicals and keeping them safe
Kering has developed an in-depth Chemical Management Policy, which defines our strategy on chemicals that are potentially hazardous to the environment or to people. Our policy also includes chemicals that may not have been regulated yet.
The Kering Animal Welfare Standards
“Improving the welfare of animals must be an imperative for our industry and Kering wants to amplify the focus of attention from a few species to all of the animals, including livestock, within fashion’s global supply chains.” Marie-Claire Daveu, Kering’s Chief Sustainability Officer
Traceability keeps us on track
Traceability is one of the crucial challenges to overcome in fashion’s complex global supply chains. Even if we’ve already managed an 88% traceability of our overall key raw materials towards our 2025 100% target, significant issues remain for the Luxury and fashion industry as a whole.
The routine practice of indirect sourcing is a big culprit as complex supply chains often stem from traditional business model set-ups, making it difficult to follow the traceability to verify best practices in the supply chain. We want to change that. 100% traceability is our end-goal to ensure Kering’s high standards around environmental protection, social welfare, chemical use and animal welfare are adhered to.
Traceability is one of the crucial challenges to overcome in fashion’s complex global supply chains. Even if we’ve already managed an 88% traceability of our overall key raw materials towards our 2025 100% target, significant issues remain for the Luxury and fashion industry as a whole.
The routine practice of indirect sourcing is a big culprit as complex supply chains often stem from traditional business model set-ups, making it difficult to follow the traceability to verify best practices in the supply chain.
We want to change that. 100% traceability is our end-goal to ensure Kering’s high standards around environmental protection, social welfare, chemical use and animal welfare are adhered to.
overall
for bovine leather
75% of all Group leathersheep and goat all way up to the location of abattoirs
25% all Group leatherfor the group
for the group
We also set up a number of pilot projects around traceability: we have Institute of Quality Certification for the Leather Sector (ICEC) to the farms for leather and pilots tracing leather in line with the ICEC regulation TS-PM414 as part of the certification process for finished leather products. Also, in collaboration with ICEC, we have certification procedures with key tanneries for sourcing leather from 10 certified tanneries. We also have GIA traceable and certified diamonds.
Offsetting And Insetting As Strategic Levers
An Essential Part Of Our 360 Degree Climate Strategy
Rubbing Shoulders With Academics And The Experts
While focusing on reducing our impacts as a priority and becoming more resilient in the face of climate change, we’re also collaborating with academics, scientists and experts in order to help us reach our ambitions. Our aim is to continue to contribute to science to help drive the sustainability agenda forward in our industry.
We’re Disrupting Luxury
For the future growth of the Luxury industry, it’s no longer
business as usual. Instead it will be based on how we grapple with
3 broad trends that are changing global business and have
specific consequences for luxury.
We’re Protecting Biodiversity
We are deeply concerned For biodiversity and nature conservation
and focusing on this has been one of our top priorities. We strategically partner with many of the key stakeholders who are both on the ground and in academia doing critical research.
