Our Path to Net Zero

Accounting and reporting

Product efficiency & circularity

Better waste management

From design through to end of life, we produce clothing in a way that minimises environmental impact. On average around 70% of our collections are made with recycled materials (fully or partly) and we actively participate in material innovation through our partners Gore and Polartec, and varied collaborations. We focus on timeless designs and multi-purpose products that last a life-time, constantly exploring ways to reduce our inventory. We avoid over-production through careful product control in our factories and never participate in Black Friday. We have a strong track record for resell in our home market, and we're exploring rolling this out to market worldwide. 98% of our products are repairable and we take-back worn out garments through our ´Indestructible´ program in partnership with the Red Cross.

Active reduction of emissions

This year we signed an agreement with plastic recycling and waste management system, Pure North. This involves a comprehensive waste audit and action plan for all our facilities with the aim of rescuing waste; increasing recycling rates; ensuring a better quality of raw materials generated in our day-today operations, and making sure our waste is disposed of using the right channels in a transparent way.

We run our headquarters and the majority of our stores on clean energy. Outside of Iceland, we use 78.9% renewable energy in our owned operations and are working hard to increase this. We annually report on our carbon emissions and are exploring ways to reduce our footprint, like developing our hybrid and electric vehicle fleet, and adding solar panels onto the roofs of our two Latvian factories during 2024/5. We have also been transitioning to LED lighting across all of our operations. Our stores are already converted, and our target is to be 100% LED across the business by 2025.

Working with suppliers to address impact

Every year we send out a questionnaire to our supplier network to engage them on continuous improvements and adherence to internationally accepted environmental and social standards and compliance. This includes a safe and healthy work environment as well as environmental and social responsibility. The purpose of these questionnaires is to establish a measurable path within the company’s supply chain, identify gaps, and offer education and share best practice.

Educating employees and customers

We regularly educate about the importance of reducing waste, recycling, and other sustainable practices. This can include training employees to sort waste correctly or encouraging them to use public transportation, carpooling, or bike to work. We also use our social media to widen the reach of our sustainability ethos and messaging.

We have been using the Klappir Sustainability Platform since 2019 to collect and process environmental, social and governance data across the company’s value chain to facilitate transparent sustainability accounting and reporting. This helps us keep a close track of our resources with real life data and set action plans for improvement where it is needed. For the year 2022 we have purchased third party certified credits to invest in carbon removal through our partner Klimate to offset unavoidable emissions. This will cover all of scope 1 and 2, and will include soil sequestration (13.4%) and forestation (86.6%) methods, supporting high quality agroforestry, afforestation and reforestation projects.

About Klimate

Founded in 2021 Klimate is a climate tech start up providing access to high-quality, innovative, and verifiable carbon removal solutions aligned with science. Their core purpose is to scale and accelerate the development of carbon removal methods and technologies needed to achieve the targets set forth by the Paris Agreement.

What is carbon removal?

Carbon Removal refers to a suite of activities that lower the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere. This is done by removing CO2 molecules and storing the carbon in plants, trees, soil, geological reservoirs, ocean reservoirs or products derived from CO2.