The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has created a new guide to support the textile and apparel industry in committing to science-based targets and delivering against validated SBTs.

Responsible for between two and eight per cent of annual GHG emissions, the textile and apparel industry must ramp up its efforts on facilitating collective action across the industry, to deliver the 45 per cent reduction needed by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5C.

Developed last year in collaboration with Michael Sadowski, one of the primary authors of the Apparel and Footwear Sector Science-Based Targets Guidance by the World Resources Institute (WRI) in 2019, SAC has been working on refining the guidance and conducting peer-to-peer group meetings with members to understand their needs and expectations.

The guide is part of the SAC’s decarbonisation programme, launched last year, to drive adoption and reduction in emissions across the industry and provides a six-step process by which organisations can set targets and develop action plans.

As part of its strategic plan, the SAC has set an aspirational objective to mitigate climate change and build climate resilience in the consumer goods value chain by supporting its corporate members in achieving decarbonisation.

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