1. WEBINAR
ACCELERATED AMBITION
WRI RESOURCES FOR APPAREL COMPANIES
Photo credit: Flickr/Marco Verch
HOSTED BY
Liz Cook
Vice President for
Institutional Strategy
and Development

2. WRI is a global research organization
that makes big ideas happen.
Programs: Climate, Energy, Food, Forests, Water,
Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Ocean
Centers: Business, Economics, Finance, Governance

3. Global Perspective,
Global Influence
WRI’s network of over 900 experts and
staff work throughout Africa, the
Americas, Europe and Asia.

4. What We Do
✓ Research
✓ Tools
✓ Standards
✓ Convenings
✓ Services
OUR APPROACH
Count It Change It Scale It

5. Our Tools for Companies

6. Why Apparel?
Big Impacts Rising Consumption

7. Today’s Speakers
MODERATOR
Liz Cook
Vice President for Institutional
Strategy and Development
Eliot Metzger
Director, Sustainable
Business and Innovation
Cynthia Cummis
Director of Private Sector
Climate Mitigation
Paul Reig
Director, Aqueduct and
Corporate Engagement
Alex Perera
Deputy Director, Energy
Emily Neagle
Manager, Corporate
Consultative Group, Corporate
Relations and Communications

8. We help apparel companies:
• Set emissions targets that are in line with global goals
Featured initiative:
Cynthia Cummis
Director of Private Sector
Climate Mitigation
Climate Program

9. The Science Based Targets initiative champions science-based
target setting to boost companies’ competitive advantage in the
transition to the low-carbon economy.

10. The Foundation for Science-Based Targets (SBTs)
Paris Agreement
• Set the global objective of limiting global warming to well below
2°C above pre-industrial levels
• Pursue efforts to limit global temperature increase to
1.5°C above pre-industrial levels
IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C
• Global CO2 emissions must fall 45% from 2010 levels by 2030,
reaching “net zero” around 2050
• “Rapid and far-reaching” transitions in land, energy, industry,
buildings, transport and cities are needed
Link: https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15

11. What Are SBTs?
• Consistent with the long-term goal of
reaching net-zero emissions in 2nd
half of century
• Timeframe drives short-term action
and enables accountability (5-15
years)

12. New Guidance for Apparel and Footwear
Guidance Objectives
Support apparel and footwear companies - brands,
retailers, suppliers, etc. - to set ambitious, science-based
GHG reduction targets:
• Provide clarity on credible approaches to setting SBTs
• Increase consistency across company targets
• Identify barriers for setting SBTs and provide solutions
• Provide examples of best practices
• Highlight collaboration opportunities for reducing
emissions Link:
https://sciencebasedtargets.org/sector-
development/apparel/

13. Addressing Emissions in Purchased Goods and Services Is Challenging
• Influence and visibility into primary data and practices decline
• Suppliers have multiple customers within AP/FW and other sectors
• Suppliers may not have influence over their inputs (brand directed)

14. Collaboration Across the Value Chain Is Critical

15. Opportunities for Collaboration Abound

16. 12 Approved Targets, 17 More Companies Committed
• Reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 emissions
95% by 2022 from a 2016 base year
• Reduce absolute scope 3 emissions 30% by
2030 from a 2016 base year
• Reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 emissions
35% by 2030 from a 2017 base year
• Reduce absolute scope 3 emissions from
purchased goods and services 60% per million
euro sales by 2030 from a 2017 base year
Approved Targets
• ASICS Corporation, Burberry, H&M, Kering,
Levi Strauss & Co., Marks & Spencer,
MARUI Group Co., PUMA, Skunkfunk,
Target Corporation, Tesco, Walmart Inc.
Committed
• ALDO, Bestseller A/S, C&A, CHANEL,
Eileen Fisher, Fast Retailing Co., Gap Inc.,
Guess, inditex, J. Front Retailing, Nike,
One Jeanswear Group, PVH, The
Warehouse Group, VF Corporation,
Woolworths Holdings Limited, Yunus Textile
Mills

17. • With the guidance finalized, we turn
to identifying the largest emissions
sources and opportunities for
reductions
• Understanding where the reductions
will come from will help companies
set and deliver SBTs
Mapping the Needed GHG Reductions

18. Learn More
www.sciencebasedtargets.org
Contact Us
info@sciencebasedtargets.org
Ccummis@wri.org

19. Energy Program
We help apparel companies:
• Tackle scope 3 emissions by engaging suppliers
and their energy markets
Featured initiative:
Alex Perera
Deputy Director, Energy

20. The CEIA is built on 3 pillars for mobilizing clean energy
investment at scale: purchasers, policy & pipeline

21. • Work with large retailer (75+ centers)
• SBTs of 80% renewable electricity by
2025 and 100% by 2030
• Developed Request for Proposal
(RFP) and invited 21 companies
• Support Mexico’s Industrial Park
Association (AMPIP)
• Pilot project that handles 5
industrial park groups (9 industrial
parks and their tenants)
In Mexico, we are helping industrial parks and retailers procure clean
energy to meet their SBTs

22. • CEIA, with USAID’s Vietnam Low Emission
Energy Program, is working to support a
new pilot program
• Program size is 300-400 MW
• Working group meeting will be held in
August
• Companies interested in participating
must sign up by the end of the year
• To join our working group or learn more
about our work, contact:
norma.hutchinson@wri.org
In Vietnam, we are leading a Direct Power Purchase Agreement pilot
program and have a working group of 100+ members

23. We help apparel companies:
• Measure and quantify water-related risks and
opportunities across consumer markets,
operations and supply chains
• Develop water stewardship strategies and targets
that deliver long-term value
Featured initiative:
Paul Reig
Director, Aqueduct and
Corporate Engagement
Water Program

24. THIRD PARTY TOOLS
API
DATA DOWNLOAD
AQUEDUCT TOOLS
AQUEDUCT 3.0: Tools for Assessing Water Risk

26. What’s New
Two main things have changed in the Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas:
• The indicators in the Aqueduct Water Risk Framework
• The hydrological model underpinning the indicators

27. Water Risk Indicators

28. Water Risk Indicators

29. Hydrological Model
• Water supply estimates include both surface and groundwater resources
• Water supply and demand are calculated together
• The underlying model has much higher spatial resolution. From a 1x1 degree grid (roughly
110x110 km at the equator), to a 5x5 arc minute grid (roughly to 10x10 km at the equator)
• It has a more recent and higher temporal resolution. Historic daily data from January 1960 until
December 2014, aggregated to monthly scores
• Different hydrological sub-basin delineation

30. Why Does This Matter to You?
• The results of your water risk assessment using Aqueduct 3.0 may or may not change
• Any one or combination of the changes described could be driving the differences in results
• Determining what is driving the change will require in-depth analysis of the local context in
the area(s) of interest and close evaluation of the changes associated with the indicator
values in question

31. Corporate Thought Leadership and Advisory Services
Advancing sustainable water management in the private sector by driving innovation in water-
related data, tools and strategies
https://www.wri.org/our-work/project/corporate-water-stewardship
Some of the companies we’ve worked with include:
• Cargill, Inc.
• Eileen Fisher
• Nike, Inc.
• VF Corporation

32. We help apparel companies:
• Explore alternative business models that could
decouple business growth from resource use
Featured initiative:
• Clothing Reuse Market Makers
Eliot Metzger
Director, Sustainable
Business and Innovation
Business Center

33. Source: Elephant in the Boardroom; Photo: Flickr/David Blackwell

34. Source: Quartz (qz.com); Data: American Apparel & Footwear
Association

35. Source: True Cost

36. Consumer
Demand
Common
Definitions and
Ambitions
Enabling Policies
Clothing Reuse Market Makers

37. Significant Interest in New Clothing Reuse Business Models
UK US India
39%
61%
27%
73%
10%
90%
Disinterested
Interested
Percentage of all consumers interested in at least one of the business model propositions

38. Estimating Environmental
and Social Impacts
Review and road-testing
beginning Summer 2019

39. Participate in Policy Inventory:
http://bit.ly/CircularPolicy
Policy: Shaping the External Environment for Reuse
Barriers:
• Tariff barriers vs. non-tariff barriers
• End of life and waste classifications
• Linear accounting principles and more
Policies that
enable
circularity at
scale
Circular
products &
services
Circular
products &
services
Linear products
& services
Linear products
& services
Images adapted from Ecopreneur
Enablers:
• Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)
• Shifting taxes from labor to resources
• Wage subsidies for reuse business models
• VAT reductions for reuse goods
• Voluntary policy measures

40. Weave it all together with a
Corporate Consultative Group (CCG) membership.
Emily Neagle
Manager, Corporate
Consultative Group, Corporate
Relations and Communications

41. Corporate Consultative Group (CCG) Benefits
✓ Guided access to cutting-edge research and data tools
✓ Focused support and advice from world-renowned experts
✓ Member-only monthly newsletter and event invitations
✓ Opportunities to contribute to research
✓ Admission to MindShare, an annual member-only conference

42. Current CCG Members
YOU’LL LOOK
GOOD HERE.
Not pictured: Shell logo

43. Discussion
MODERATOR
Liz Cook
Vice President for Institutional
Strategy and Development
Eliot Metzger
Director, Sustainable
Business and Innovation
Cynthia Cummis
Director of Private Sector
Climate Mitigation
Paul Reig
Director, Aqueduct and
Corporate Engagement
Alex Perera
Deputy Director, Energy
Emily Neagle
Manager, Corporate
Consultative Group, Corporate
Relations and Communications

44. Further Reading
• Apparel and Footwear Sector Science-Based Targets Guidance
• How Fashion Companies Can Collaborate to Tackle Their Biggest Source of Carbon
Pollution
• By the Numbers: The Economic, Social and Environmental Impacts of “Fast Fashion”
• The Apparel Industry’s Environmental Impact in 6 Graphics
• Water-Energy Nexus: Business Risks and Rewards
• Vietnam: An Up-and-Coming Clean Energy Leader?
• 5 Things Companies Can Do to Grow in a Water-Stressed World
• Thirsty for Change? 4 Ways to Improve Corporate Water Targets

45. Thank You!
Get in touch:
Emily Neagle, Manager, Corporate Consultative Group, Corporate
Relations and Communications
Emily.Neagle@wri.org
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