ASOS, BOOZT, and Selfridges Join fashion leap for climate initiative

Leading fashion and beauty retailers, ASOS, BOOZT and Selfridges Group, join FASHION LEAP FOR CLIMATE as new members, extending the climate education programme’s invitation to hundreds of fashion brands within its combined portfolio. Cascale, a non-profit global alliance, also joins as a strategic partner, offering the programme to select members of its global apparel and consumer goods network.

FASHION LEAP FOR CLIMATE, launched in 2022 by ABOUT YOU Group, YOOX NET-A-PORTER and Zalando, is designed to elevate the fashion industry’s response to the inherent climate challenges it faces. It supports fashion brands to learn how to measure their own carbon footprints and set targets in line with climate science. Scaling the initiative to additional members marks an important milestone in fostering a supportive environment to address the industry’s urgent need for climate action.

With ASOS, BOOZT and Selfridges Group on board, around 100 of their brand partners will now gain access to FASHION LEAP FOR CLIMATE’s full educational programme, industry insights, and opportunities to collaborate with other leading names in the sector. As a strategic partner, Cascale brings 25 new participants from its network into the programme and adds value by leveraging its community of over 300 brands, retailers and manufacturers to raise awareness and drive collective action to reduce environmental impact.

ASOS, BOOZT, and Selfridges join FASHION LEAP FOR CLIMATE, a programme by ABOUT YOU, YOOX NET-A-PORTER, and Zalando, aimed at helping fashion brands measure carbon footprints and set science-based targets.
Cascale joins as a partner, adding 25 participants.
The initiative offers an 8-week course, tools, and expert support, fostering collaboration and decarbonisation across the fashion industry.

“As a multi-brand retailer, industry collaboration has been central to our Fashion with Integrity strategy for many years, helping us learn from the best of the industry and support developing brands as they start their sustainability journey. We’re excited to join the FASHION LEAP FOR CLIMATE programme to strengthen our existing approach to engaging with partner brands and support them in accelerating decarbonisation of their products and supply chains.” – Jodie Leek, Head of ESG for Partner Brands – ASOS.

“We’re on a mission to reinvent retail and create a sustainable future for the planet and people. Joining FASHION LEAP FOR CLIMATE allows us to engage and support our valued brand partners in practical, meaningful ways to decarbonise fashion. There’s much to do; we can’t wait to get started.” – Christian Toennesen, Group Sustainability Director – Selfridges Group.

“As the Nordic online department store, our brand partners are key to the business’s success and engaging with them is core to Boozt’s Care-For strategy. We are thrilled to be joining FASHION LEAP FOR CLIMATE to further support our partners in taking concrete actions towards decarbonization aligned with the latest climate science.” – Gloria Tramontana, Head of Sustainability and ESG  – Boozt Group.

Empowering climate action in the fashion industry

FASHION LEAP FOR CLIMATE’s co-founders believe that fashion retailers have a vital role in driving industry transformation by setting more sustainable standards and empowering brands, partners, and suppliers to accelerate their climate initiatives. Since 2022, over 85% of the brand partners that have taken part reported an increase in their understanding of climate issues and science-based targets to reduce Scope 3 emissions, after completing the learning programme.

Curated by sustainability consultancy Quantis, a BCG company, FASHION LEAP FOR CLIMATE builds participants’ understanding of the fashion industry’s role in addressing global climate challenges through a free-of-cost, immersive 8-week education programme. The initiative also provides step by step guidance on how to measure corporate carbon footprints and submit science-based targets to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). In addition to the core programme, brand partners can benefit from access to sustainability experts and tools to collaborate with industry, while wider suppliers are upskilled on the fashion retail value chain and retailers are supported to meet their partner engagement targets.

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Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RM)