PVH

Sustainability strategy and accountability
In its Forward Fashion strategy, the company has group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain.

Stakeholder engagement
The company discloses how often and through which channels it engages with various stakeholder groups.

Resource exploitation and circularity
The company discloses its inputs, including its material footprint. PVH’s material mapping is a compilation of data that captures the amounts of materials the company uses in its production within a given time period. This material mapping exercise is essential for measuring and tracking progress against its Forward Fashion corporate responsibility goals. The data in this report represents the amount of direct raw materials procured globally throughout the company during the 2019 fiscal year.

To reduce single-use plastics across its operations, PVH is focused on finding alternative solutions for hangers, collar stays, polybags, buttons and thread. Calvin Klein successfully transitioned men’s underwear boxes from plastic to paper composed of at least 50% recycled content starting from Fall 2021.

Water
The company requires access to water and sanitation, including refraining from negatively affecting access to safe water, to be included in contractual arrangements with its business relationships. The company also works with its business relationships to improve their practices regarding access to water and sanitation.

Solid and air pollution
The company is reducing the production of hazardous substances. In 2020, it imposed a usage ban on all C8 and higher perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) (commonly used as water and stain repellents). Building on its ban of long-chained PFCs, PVH has committed to the complete elimination of all perfluoroalkyl-based compounds (including PFC-based) from its manufacturing process by 2024. The company reports some activities to reduce plastic use and waste in its own operations. The company also reports on the proportion of reused or recycled products, or proportion of virgin polymer use, or proportion of single-use plastics.

GHG emissions
PVH is committed to reducing its absolute scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030 from a 2017 base year, in alignment with a 1.5-degree trajectory. The company has achieved a scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction of 47% from its 2017 baseline. Its scope 3 emissions have reduced by 28% from its 2017 baseline.

No leading practices were identified in the social inclusion and community impact area.

Sustainability strategy and accountability
The company discloses its process for identifying and prioritising its most relevant sustainability impacts as well as the outcome of this process, in relation to its sustainability strategy. The company reports consistently against all its targets. No evidence was found that the company links performance criteria in senior executives’ remuneration policies to targets and objectives which cover nature, including biodiversity, and social issues. The company does not disclose whether its highest governance body has expertise regarding nature-related topics.

Stakeholder engagement
The company does not disclose an overview of the issues raised during its stakeholder engagement activities.

Lobbying
The company does not report on its lobbying and advocacy practices on nature-related issues, nor whether these activities align with its sustainability strategy.

Impact and dependencies assessment
The company has not holistically assessed its impacts or how it depends on nature, including biodiversity. It has an opportunity to start such an assessment across its value chains, focused on quantification of its impacts or dependencies.

Key areas and species
The company does not disclose key species or areas important for biodiversity affected by its operations or suppliers. It has an opportunity to increase its transparency.

Ecosystem conversion and restoration
The company does not have a commitment to ensure zero conversion. The company discloses some activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains but does not have time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company has a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion and discloses some related activities. However, it is not committed to restoring ecosystems. The company does not disclose details and outcomes of ecosystem restoration projects in areas affected by its own operations or by its suppliers.

Resource exploitation and circularity
The company does not report quantitatively on its group-wide circularity performance. The company discloses activities to improve soil health or agrobiodiversity in its production or sourcing practices. However, it does not have a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.

Water
The company demonstrates it is reducing water withdrawal in its own operations but does not disclose a time-bound target to this effect. The company does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas, nor does it engage with suppliers to reduce water withdrawal. The company reports a decrease in water pollution. It discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality but does not regularly report on water pollution. Nor does it disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water or its processes for implementing preventive and corrective action plans for identified specific risks to the right to water and sanitation in its own operations.

Solid and air pollution
The company does not commit to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties. The company is not reducing the production of hazardous waste or reducing plastic use and waste in its own operations. The company does not report on the amount of plastic waste generated and proportions directed from or to disposal. The company does not report on air quality parameters of emissions of harmful air pollutants. Nor does it report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions
PVH has a target, approved by the Science Based Targets initiative, to reduce absolute scope 1, 2 and 3 greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030 from a 2017 base year. The company reports progress against this target. The company reports a scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction of 47% from its 2017 baseline. Its scope 3 emissions have reduced by 28% from its 2017 baseline. The company’s emissions reduction target is aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

Invasive species
The company has not identified any activities that could lead to the introduction of invasive species in its own operations.

Safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment
The company does not show if it is committed to respecting local communities’ right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment or to zero tolerance for acts of violence, threats, intimidation or judicial harassment committed against land and environmental rights defenders.

Indigenous Peoples’ and land rights
The company does not show if it is committed to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or lLand rights of local communities.

The company has an opportunity to describe a comprehensive process for identifying its human rights risks and impacts across all its activities, especially through its business relationships. There is no evidence that the company describes its process for assessing its human rights risks and discloses what it considers to be its salient human rights issues. However, it publicly discloses the results of its human rights risk assessments, which are aggregated across its operations and locations. It also describes its global system to take action to prevent, mitigate or remediate salient human rights issues, and this includes a description of how its global system applies to its supply chain. There is no evidence that the company provides an example of the conclusions reached and actions taken or to be taken on at least one of its salient human rights issues as a result of assessment processes. The company discloses categories of stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. However, there is no evidence that the company provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities.

The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it is committed to respecting the health and safety of workers. The company also has a publicly available policy statement which shows it expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. There is no evidence that the company discloses a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. However, it does describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. It also describes how it works to support the payment of a living wage by its suppliers. There is no evidence that the company discloses the proportion of its total direct operations workforce covered by collective bargaining agreements. While the company states that it encourages its suppliers to respect employees’ right to freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining, it has an opportunity to describe how it works to support the practices of its suppliers in this regard.

There is no evidence that the company has a publicly available global tax strategy. Nor is there evidence that the company describes the process for identifying its bribery and corruption risks and impacts in specific locations or activities covering its own operations. The company does, however, include anti-bribery and anti-corruption clauses in its contracts with direct business relationships. The company does not disclose its approach to lobbying and political engagement in a public policy document.