Presentation given at Textile Exchange 2019

2. 3G Building Biodiversity and Mitigating Climate
Change
Jon Ekstrom Yoann RegentZachary Angelini Laila Petrie

3. • Setting the Scene
• Interviews
• Audience Q&A
• Close
Agenda

4. There is now a Nature Crisis as large as the Climate Crisis
Wild nature has been halved
Threats to species extinctions are rising rapidly
This means that our life support system is failing: soil, pollinators, oceans, agriculture
Nature
has
been
halved

5. Biodiversity loss is driving climate change
Climate change targets can only be met by including biodiversity targets
(e.g. Zero Deforestation)

6. Biodiversity loss and climate change now recognised as highest risks to
global economic activity and has material risks to individual companies
(e.g. security of material supply)
Climate change and Biodiversity Loss drive
the highest long term risks recognised by
the World Economic Forum

7. Global Targets and Platforms for biodiversity require private
sector to step up – not just Governments

8. Fashion Industry is contributing to biodiversity loss and climate change -
- Agriculture is the largest single threat to biodiversity loss (e.g. 80% of
forest loss in Brazil due to farming)

9. • Land use conversion through agriculture is the largest
single impact on biodiversity globally
• Kering’s EP&L shows that land use impacts are focused
in raw material production
• First focus on raw material sourcing locations and
methods
• LCA methods for the whole value chain are secondary in
importance and untested for biodiversity
Biodiversity is across the value chain…but the biggest
impacts are at the sourcing locations

10. How have other sectors managed biodiversity?
1. A focus on land use change
2. A goal of Net Positive
3. The Mitigation Hierarchy is the most widely used tool
Regenerative
Agriculture !
Choosing your sourcing
location !
Restoring land, soil,
and forest
Investing in your
landscapes: insetting,
protecting wild habitat

11. Financial safeguards, extractive industries,
infrastructure, … and now agribusiness
The mitigation hierarchy allows you to measure and evaluate the contribution your different
activities contribute to your “biodiversity account”
(Regenerative / organic agriculture; agroforestry; insetting etc)

12. Avoid
Minimise
Restore
Restore
Application of the
Mitigation Hierarchy to an
Sourcing Location
Agricultural Landscape

13. What are the Textile and Fashion Sectors going to do?
We will commit to support the development of SBTs on
biodiversity and the implementation of these targets within our
sector to assure our contribution to the protection and
restoration of ecosystems and the protection of key species.
All companies pledge to develop their own biodiversity
strategies to meet forthcoming SBTs on biodiversity.
150 Brands have signed !

14. Biodiversity Science Based Targets “SBTs”
SBTs are
REVOLUTIONARY for
target setting:
companies can set
targets in line with
Global Societal Goals
The Convention on
Biological Diversity will
set a “2C Paris-type
equivalent” goal for
biodiversity in October
2020 e.g. “Half Earth”
This “Global Societal
Goal” can be
disaggregated into
Biodiversity SBTs
Companies using SBTs
will therefore meet the
goal society has set
(third party
benchmarking)
New SBTs beyond
climate are being
developed for
Biodiversity, Land Use,
Freshwater and Oceans,
for release in 2021
See Session 3G
tomorrow for a deep
dive into SBTs

15. The fashion and textile industries have a large and unmeasured impact on biodiversity
The Bad News: The sector is 10 years behind other sectors in the measurement and
management of this issue
The Good News # 1Tools and methods have already been developed by other sectors which can
be readily used: Biodiversity Screening, Mitigation Hierarchy, Biodiversity Action Plans
The Good News # 2: You can solve the climate crisis by working with Nature: Nature Based
Solutions will bring climate and biodiversity credits to your portfolio
Science Based Targets are the new frontier – watch this space.
Take Home Messages

16. • Laila Petrie – WWF
• Zachary Angelini - Timberland
• Yoann Regent - Kering
Panel Introductions

22. WHILE YOU SEE THIS…

23. WE SEE THIS!

24. We will help craft tomorrow’s luxury, with our new three pillar
roadmap for 2025: care, collaborate, create.
We Care
about our impact on the planet,
on climate change, on natural resources.
We Collaborate
for the good of our employees, suppliers, clients.
We Create
innovations to safeguard our
rich heritage, and empower future generations.
rich heritage, and empower future generations.
IN 2017 WE OPENED A NEW CHAPTER:
CRAFTING TOMORROW’S LUXURY

25. • REDUCING OUR ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT
– Reduce our Environmental Profit & Loss (EP&L) by 40% by
2025, via actions to tackle the impact of our sourcing,
manufacturing and operations;
– Reduce our CO2 emissions by 50% by 2025 via
science-based targets.
• PRESERVING OUR RAW MATERIALS
– Trace all of our raw materials (cotton, leather, precious skins,
wool..) back as far as their country of extraction, to ensure a
responsible supply chain;
– Deploy Kering social, environmental and animal welfare
standards across 100% of our supply chains.
WE CARE FOR OUR IMPACT ON THE PLANET, ON CLIMATE
CHANGE, AND ON NATURAL RESOURCES BY:

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