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The company says its goal of sourcing percent of electricity from renewable sources is a key aim, although it hasn’t specified a target date. In , H&M’s photovoltaic panels generated about , kWh of electricity. Beyond this, the report doesn’t supply information on how much renewable electricity the company used, or what proportion of electricity came from renewables.
H&M says monitoring progress towards the renewables goal has been difficult because the firm lacked a robust framework for defining renewables and for tracking associated CO reductions. But it says forthcoming guidelines will aid this process.
The company says its biggest climate impacts take place outside of its direct operations, with Scope accounting for only percent of emissions, and Scope CG Leads accounting for percent. It estimates that percent of emissions come from fabric processing, percent from product use, percent from raw materials, percent from production, percent from transport and percent from sales.
To address product use emissions, H&M worked with Ginetex, the owner of the standard care labeling system, to develop a label that encourages more sustainable clothing care. This Clevercare label is now available to all apparel brands, and will start to reach H&M stores this summer.
Since , the company’s transport-related emissions have increased by percent, while sales increased by percent. About percent of transportation from production countries to H&M distribution centers is by sea or rail.
In January H&M and WWF signed a three-year agreement to develop a global water strategy, to be implemented across the company’s markets and direct suppliers. The company says it will measure water impacts across all of its operations and supply chain.
But in the report, H&M does not say whether it managed to reduce water use in the past year. It did estimate that it used . million cubic meters in its stores, , in its distribution centers and , in its offices, based on extrapolation from measurements at six percent of its stores, its head office and three of its biggest distribution centers. The company also says it saved million liters of water in by applying water-saving techniques to its production of denim and other water-intense products.
H&M says monitoring progress towards the renewables goal has been difficult because the firm lacked a robust framework for defining renewables and for tracking associated CO reductions. But it says forthcoming guidelines will aid this process.
The company says its biggest climate impacts take place outside of its direct operations, with Scope accounting for only percent of emissions, and Scope CG Leads accounting for percent. It estimates that percent of emissions come from fabric processing, percent from product use, percent from raw materials, percent from production, percent from transport and percent from sales.
To address product use emissions, H&M worked with Ginetex, the owner of the standard care labeling system, to develop a label that encourages more sustainable clothing care. This Clevercare label is now available to all apparel brands, and will start to reach H&M stores this summer.
Since , the company’s transport-related emissions have increased by percent, while sales increased by percent. About percent of transportation from production countries to H&M distribution centers is by sea or rail.
In January H&M and WWF signed a three-year agreement to develop a global water strategy, to be implemented across the company’s markets and direct suppliers. The company says it will measure water impacts across all of its operations and supply chain.
But in the report, H&M does not say whether it managed to reduce water use in the past year. It did estimate that it used . million cubic meters in its stores, , in its distribution centers and , in its offices, based on extrapolation from measurements at six percent of its stores, its head office and three of its biggest distribution centers. The company also says it saved million liters of water in by applying water-saving techniques to its production of denim and other water-intense products.