Become #conscious

Sustainability at Fashion Cloud.

We strive for taking action and responsibility for more sustainability in wholesale.

At Fashion Cloud, we believe in shaping the world we live in by making decisions according to our core value #conscious. We strive to act responsibly and build a product and a company that work in service of people and the planet.

In addition to promoting a socially and environmentally responsible corporate culture, we want to help the wholesale community share their sustainability efforts more transparently via our platform.

Certificates and Sustainable Attributes
To provide better guidance and transparency, we work with quality seals and certificates.
Organic 100 – content standard

The Organic Content Standard (OCS) is an international, voluntary
standard that provides chain of custody verification for materials originating on a farm certified to recognized national organic standards.
The standard is used to verify organically grown raw materials from
the farm to the final product.

GOTS Organic

The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is a globally recognised standard for the processing of textiles made from organically produced natural fibres. For certification, the entire production chain is checked with regard to environmental and social requirements. In this case, the product carries the label level “organic”, i.e. it contains at least 95% certified natural fibres.

GOTS – made with organic materials

The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is a globally recognised standard for the processing of textiles made from organically produced natural fibres. For certification, the entire production chain is checked with regard to environmental and social requirements. In this case, the product bears the label level “made with organic materials”, i.e. it contains at least 70% certified natural fibres.

Leather Working Group

The Leather Working Group (LWG) is a multi-stakeholder initiative comp- osed of various stakeholders within the leather processing industry. The Group has deveoped an audit programme that certifies leather manu-facturing plants based on environmental compliance and performance.

Responsible Wool Standard

The Responsible Wool Standard is one of th eleading standard for animal welfare in relation to wool products and guarntees responsible sheep farming. The focus of this eal is on animal welfare (e.g. ban on mulesing), sustainable management and protection of soils, and full transparency in the supply chain with an integrated system of traceability.

Sustainable Development

We take action for the sustainable development goals.

Goal 09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
The fashion industry needs transparency as a tool for sustainable development. We provide digital infrastructure to enable greater transparency and automated processes to exchange sustainability data.
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Goal 13: Climate action
We believe every company must take responsibility to limit global warming to 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That is why we annually calculate our corporate carbon footprint as a basis for reduction and compensation plans.
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Goal 17: Partnerships for the goals
The fashion industry faces global challenges. We use our network to form partnerships and collaboration for sustainable development.
Our sustainability partners

Our initiatives towards a more sustainable future.

Sustainability attributes on Fashion Cloud.

The industry needs transparency - now!

Fashion Cloud supports sustainability attributes as part of product data at GTIN level. These attributes include a variety of certifications and standards issued by independent third-parties as well as trade- marked materials.

Widely used examples are: Organic Textile Standard (GOTS), Global Recycled Standard (GRS), LENZING™ ECOVERO™ and many others.

Brands can share up to four sustainability attributes per product through our Content API with retailers.

How we take climate action.

The industry needs transparency - now!

615t
CO2 offset since 2019

A milestone for Fashion Cloud: Since 2021, we are officially a company with financial climate contribution. YAY! But what does this mean?

We have been offsetting the emissions of our business activities (our Corporate Carbon Footprint) completely via Gold Standard certified climate protection projects and continuously work on reducing unavoidable emissions.

Our annual corporate carbon footprint includes all direct and indirect emissions as well as the indirect emissions of our value chain (Scope 1, 2 & 3). Up until now this amounts to 615 metrics tons of CO2 equivalents in the calculation years 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

ClimatePartner supports us in making the entire process traceable and transparent.

*Carbon accounting and offsetting for 2023 is in progress.

Sustainable development is a collaborative effort.

We are on this sustainability journey together!

For us, it is important that sustainability certifications like GOTS and GRS not only check and certify materials, but also social and environmental standards. In order to make these measures as transparent as possible for our customers, we also share our certificates and sustainability attributes with our wholesale partners via Fashion Cloud.

Jürgen Sabelhaus
Head of CSR Management, Camel Active
Strong network

Our partners in sustainability.

Since 2020, we have been a member of Leaders for Climate Action. In this initiative over 3,000 companies focused on collaboration, decarbonization and co-creating knowledge to move all our sustainability journeys forward.

Since 2021, ClimatePartner has supported us in calculating, reducing and offsetting CO2 emissions. The entire process is traceable through ClimatePatner's "Financial Climate Contribution" label and their certificate.

Stop snoozing start moving. Management commitment and #conscious corporate culture.

At Fashion Cloud everyone is part of the sustainability journey – our management, our sustainability team and all the other teams too.

You want to learn more about the Fashion Cloud approach to sustainability and how each employee can be part of it? Check out our podcast.

Blog

Talking Sustainability and everyday news.

With ‘Talking Sustainability’, we have developed a new format for which we regularly invite organisations from the industry and beyond to share their actions and experience in the field of sustainability.

Talking Sustainability with AMMANN

With ‘Talking Sustainability’, we have developed a new format for which we regularly invite organisations from the industry and beyond to share their actions and experience in the field of sustainability. For this interview, we were able to talk to Andreas Scheer from german underwear manufacturer AMMANN. Find out more about AMMANN's sustainability efforts in this interview.

Meet Clara - Sustainability Special

Our sustainability manager Clara talks about the importance of sustainability attributes in the fashion industry and what being "conscious" means to us as a company.

Talking Sustainability with Kuyichi

With ‘Talking Sustainability’, we have developed a new format for which we regularly invite organisations from the industry and beyond to share their actions and experience in the field of sustainability. For our latest ‘TS’ interview, we got the chance to meet Zoé Daemen from the dutch fashion brand ‘Kuyichi’ and talk to her about which role a brand can play in pushing sustainability in the fashion industry.

Talking Sustainability with L&T

With ‘Talking Sustainability’, we have developed a new format for which we regularly invite organisations from the industry and beyond to share their actions and experience in the field of sustainability. For the interview, we were able to ask André Gizinski from german retailer Lengermann & Trieschman (L&T) a few questions about L&T’s sustainability efforts.

Talking Sustainability with Camel Active

With ‘Talking Sustainability’, we have developed a new format for which we regularly invite organisations from the industry and beyond to share their actions and experience in the field of sustainability. For the first interview, we were able to ask Jürgen Sabelhaus from camel active a few questions about his work as Head of CSR Management. Below you can find out more about camel active’s sustainability efforts.

Interested in learning more about sustainability at Fashion Cloud or getting active with us?