SUSTAINABLITY
It is no secret that supplier sustainability is vital for modern businesses. The imperative to reduce environmental harm keeps growing, pressuring suppliers to cut emissions, waste and water usage. A Stanford Business School survey found that 64 % of companies agree assessing supplier sustainability performance impacts how they evaluate supplier competitiveness.
Brand reputation now relies on selecting suppliers who can follow through, and on coming together to put competitiveness aside and solve the sustainability problem collectively.
The Fashion Pact was born out of this recognition that collective action is the most effective way to change the environmentally harmful impact of the fashion industry.
What is The Fashion Pact? The Fashion Pact is the most significant CEO-led sustainability initiative in the global fashion industry. As an evolution from France’ s President Emmanuel Macron’ s call to industry leaders, the international coalition today reflects a broader awakening across fashion, focusing especially on the supplier and upstream supply chain activities that contribute the most to emissions.
“ There is now a real momentum within fashion among leaders who are ready to work with others to drive the changes our societies and planet need,” explains Paul Polman, former CEO of Unilever.“ This sector has a long way to go, but no single CEO or business can tackle these issues alone and The Fashion Pact offers unprecedented partnership and scale.”
122 March 2026