Burberry introduces ‘carbon insetting’

Luxury goods maker Burberry has created a Regeneration Fund to support future carbon insetting projects in its global supply chain, starting with wool producers in Australia.

Announcing that its Autumn/Winter 2020 runway show will be certified as carbon neutral, Burberry took the opportunity to unveil its Regeneration Fund to support a portfolio of carbon insetting projects that will be implemented within Burberry’s own supply chain, working to promote biodiversity, restore ecosystems and support the livelihoods of local producers as well as storing carbon at source and removing it from the atmosphere.

Carbon insetting, as opposed to offsetting, occurs when agroforestry or tree planting projects are carried out directly within a company’s own supply chain. More than just providing a source of carbon capture, insetting projects work with communities to help provide climate resilience, promote biodiversity, restore ecosystems and support the livelihoods of local producers.

To kickstart the programme, Burberry is partnering with PUR Projet to design and implement regenerative agriculture practices with some of its wool producers in Australia. The project will work at farm level to improve carbon capture in soils, improve watershed and soil health, reduce dryland salinity and promote biodiverse habitats.

Pam Batty, VP of corporate responsibility, Burberry said: “At Burberry we are passionate about creating real change in our industry to build a more sustainable future and I am proud that we can express this through our biggest brand moments like our runway shows. As we look to the future, our move to implement carbon insetting in our supply chain is testament to our restless approach to finding new ways to protect our environment and strengthen our deep commitment to our local communities.”

The approach builds on Burberry’s existing climate commitments approved by the Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) which apply to greenhouse gas emissions from Burberry’s operations, covering scopes 1, 2 and 3. The targets for greenhouse gas emissions from Burberry’s operations — scopes 1 and 2 — are consistent with reductions required to keep warming to 1.5C, the most ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement.

Burberry is already carbon neutral in the Americas region, EMEIA retail stores and UK operations and is on track to achieve its goal of being carbon neutral in its own global operations by 2022.

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