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 and is a key enabler of our sustainable business model.

It goes far beyond standard environmental reporting, producing a more comprehensive picture of the impacts generated by the Group. It covers every tier, from our own operations and stores all the way upstream to the production of raw materials. At each tier, indicators are measured covering: GHG emissions, water consumption, waste production, water pollution, air pollution and land use.

It’s not just transparent but very thorough and makes impacts visible, quantifiable and comparable. Converted into monetary values, we can then quantify our use of natural resources. This way, we know where we stand. And we can tell the world too.

Transparency is also about letting in and embracing new ideas hence our openness to share our EP&L tool.

We can see how it leads to seriously enhanced understanding of our impacts  and the real-time data advancements to our methodology, and the quality  of the data that underpins it, has only augmented  the EP&L.

This includes data that reflects restorative farming practices, the impact of sourcing cellulose-based fibers from key locations and recycled palladium, as a few examples.

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