Minimizing
our environmental impact
We recognize that we have a responsibility to mitigate and reduce our impact on the environment, and we place a specific focus on CO² emissions and water use across our supply chain.
Carbon footprint
In 2022, we started collecting data from our suppliers to build a more complete picture of our climate impact. Now, in our third year, we have primary data for all suppliers, giving us a precise view of emissions and emission drivers per supplier.
Our carbon footprint is calculated according to the leading GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, complemented with the French Bilan Carbone method.
Every year, we strive to improve our data collection and adjust our calculations where necessary. You can learn more about our carbon footprint in our annual sustainability report.
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Our decarbonization strategy
After two years of intensive work mapping every aspect of our operations and value chain to measure our total carbon footprint, we have embarked on an ambitious decarbonization mission: to reduce our relative carbon emissions by 30% by 2030, across the entire value chain (from a 2022 baseline).
Given our historic and projected growth, working with absolute reduction targets presents challenges. Our decarbonization strategy therefore uses a relative target, taking the total absolute emissions and expressing them in relation to the weight of products produced and sold.
This allows us to see, by produced and sold products, how we can reduce our relative impact by 30% in just under eight years.
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Water
We treat water as the invaluable resource it is. Across our entire supply chain, we aim to minimize the amount of water used and reduce its contamination.
Water is a critical input for the successful cultivation of organic cotton. However, unlike conventional farming, organic farming does not involve harmful chemicals, so any runoff water is free from contamination.
All our partner factories have on-site Effluent Treatment Plants (ETPs), in line with legal requirements, and have in-house specialists and testing facilities. This ensures that wastewater can be treated and then released back into nature without harming the environment.
Read more in our sustainability reportOur collaboration
Removall
Removall is a project developer specialised in designing and operating certified carbon offset projects.
In 2024, we started collaborating with Removall as a trusted partner for carbon offset initiatives. We chose Removall due to the nature of its projects, their proximity to areas where our suppliers operate, as well as the integrity of the projects.
For example, carbon credits are certified by independent third parties, and are 'ex-post', meaning that the credits we purchase represent carbon savings that have already been realised, rather than promised or expected.
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