Fashion
BRC calls for retailer collaboration on net zero emissions
Its new UK Retail 2025 Net Zero Stocktake report uses improved real-world data to assess industry progress, challenges and priorities on the path to net zero.
Using improved data quality and broader coverage, the report provides a clearer picture of industry emissions. The accompanying survey shows strong progress, with 91 per cent of retailers having established and publicly reported GHG baselines, four in five fleet drivers trained in fuel efficiency programmes, and 90 per cent of new retail buildings using LED lighting.
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has urged retailers to strengthen collaboration across the value chain to tackle scope 3 emissions from supply chains and customer use.
Its new UK Retail 2025 Net Zero Stocktake report uses improved real-world data to assess progress, barriers and priorities for the retail industry’s transition toward net zero.
Yet with over 93 per cent of retail emissions falling outside of direct control, substantive industry progress depends on joined-up retailer collaboration to influence global suppliers into action, British consumers toward large-scale behaviour change, and UK government into supportive policy.
The report shows that only a third (30 per cent) of the very biggest suppliers provide GHG emissions data and 70 per cent of products do not have information for consumers on responsible sourcing.
Progress in these areas has been held up by systemic challenges, including policy uncertainty, supply chain complexity, financial pressures, and technological limitations.
The BRC will continue to support retailers to deliver the transformative change needed by convening cross-industry stakeholders, continuing to track annual progress, and shaping policy to unlock investment and drive momentum.
“In 2020, we launched the Climate Action Roadmap to set the ambition for UK retail to reach net zero by 2040. Five years on, we must use the takeaways from this report to drive the industry from collective ambition to a step change in collaborative action. The climate emergency is no longer tomorrow’s problem. It is here today; disrupting supply chains, driving shortages, increasing costs for households – and threatening the long-term stability and resilience of UK retail. Climate change is a very real risk to businesses and the consequences of inaction are simply too big to ignore. We need more radical collaboration between companies to bring down emissions and step up the drive to net zero,” Helen Dickinson, CEO of the BRC, said.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RR)
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Kenneth Straka, Senior Product Development Manager at Deckers Outdoor Corporation, said that Deckers places strong emphasis on sustainability, noting that founder John Luke often reminded the team that the French word for sustainability is durability. This idea aligned with discussions at the Global Fashion Summit, where the theme centred on “Building Resilient Futures” in the sustainable and circular economy.
Durability has helped UGG become one of the most sought-after boot brands and a key sales driver for Deckers, alongside its sportswear brand Hoka. “One of the things we think about in terms of circularity is making products that last a long time and remain with consumers throughout their lives. We want products that consumers can wear for ** or ** years,” Straka said in an interview with Fibre*Fashion on the sidelines of the Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen.
In the Tiruppur market, cotton yarn prices increased by ****;*–* per kg in this week despite sluggish local demand. Prices were quoted higher because of limited supply from spinning mills. A trader from the Tiruppur market told Fibre*Fashion, “Domestic demand remained limited, but spinning mills are not relying solely on the domestic market for cotton yarn sales. They are focusing more on exports, where demand and prices remain attractive. Mills have raised yarn prices following higher ICE cotton prices and the CCI’s increase in auction base prices, although ICE cotton has witnessed a sharp decline over the past two days.”
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