H&M Makes a Commitment to Reduce Global Warming

In the wake of hurricanes and earthquakes around the world, fast fashion retailer H&M is making a commitment to change their business processes to reduce global warming. Climate change and global warming is a serious issue for humanity , the planet and for our future. It’s a key challenge to all industries, including fashion, which is why H&M has decided to address this challenge with a commitment; to become climate positive by 2040.

H&M has a plan to  create a climate positive value chain by reducing the energy need across operations and ensuring that the energy comes from renewable and sustainable sources. The group will also support actions helping the planet to resist and recover from climate change as well as innovations making it possible to absorb greenhouse gases. H&M’s goal is not only to reduce the negative climate impact their business has, but to create a positive one. This means they will reduce more greenhouse gases than their value chain emits.

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H&M is determined to show that climate positive fashion is possible. Following are the fast fashion retailer’s initiatives.

• Climate positive by 2040 throughout the H&M group’s entire value chain.
• The H&M group commits to a climate neutral supply chain for tier 1–2 by 2030.
• The H&M group has a commitment to use 100% renewable energy in its own operations; the share increased to 96% in 2016 from 78% in 2015.
• In 2016, the H&M group reduced its CO2 emissions by 47% compared to 2015.
• The H&M group is a proud member of the WWF Climate Savers program.

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