C&A, Salomon, Tommy Hilfiger and Zalando plan to implement Sustainability Profile on their platforms in the coming months. Simultaneously, Amazon announced the addition of the Higg Index Materials seal to its list of trusted certifications for its Climate Pledge Friendly program, helping make it easier for customers across the US and Europe to discover and shop for more sustainable products.
“Transparency itself is not the end game, but it is a critical step to transforming the industry and establishing a new era of accountability,” said Amina Razvi, Executive Director of SAC. “By leveraging the Higg Index — starting first with environmental badak togel data and then expanding to include social impact we can help businesses and consumers make better decisions, and drive collective action at scale.”
This first phase will focus on evaluating the environmental impact of materials, utilizing data from the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (MSI), part of the Higg Index suite of sustainability measurement tools developed by SAC. Higg MSI is a tool used by designers, product developers, and analysts to understand the costs, benefits, and tradeoffs of various materials that serve the same functional purpose for a product (for example, comparing recycled fiber to its conventional version). Using Higg MSI helps companies create products with a lower environmental impact—and now brands and retailers can share information about reducing impact with customers in an accessible and credible way.
Throughout program development, a panel of expert stakeholders, consisting of academics and NGOs, has provided objective feedback, insights and recommendations on the program, and the process is facilitated and managed by an independent third party to ensure objectivity in engagement and input. Over the next 18 months, the transparency program will be expanded to include environmental facility data through the Higg Facility Environmental Module (FEM) as well as brand and retail operations data through the Higg Brand & Retail Module (BRM). In early 2023, the program will expand to include social data from facilities, becoming the first holistic system for communicating sustainability performance across the product lifecycle.