Tapestry

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

Resource exploitation and circularity
While the company discloses some of its inputs, it should disclose more details on its inputs, including its material footprint (e.g. fuel consumption), with the respective weight or volume for each.

Water
The company has a target to reduce water uage by 10% across its supply chain by 2025 from a 2020 baseline, and reports progress against this target. It also engages with its suppliers to reduce water withdrawal; through the Higg Facility Environmental Module, the company has access to water data in its supply chain and can track and measure progress towards its 2025 target.

Solid and air pollution
The company is reducing the production of hazardous substances.

GHG emissions
The company’s scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions targets are aligned with a 1.5-degree trajectory.

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 does not disclose group-wide targets on key sustainability topics for the most material parts of its value chain. 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 disclose a commitment to ensure zero conversion. The company does not disclose activities to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company does not disclose time-bound targets to achieve conversion-free supply chains. The company does not disclose a commitment to minimise ecosystem conversion. The company discloses some activities to minimise ecosystem conversion. The company is 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. Tapestry has committed to a partnership with the Savory Institute’s Land to Market Program, a verified sourcing solution for regenerative agriculture, which focuses on improving soil health. The company does not disclose a target to improve soil health in its production or sourcing practices.

Water
In FY2021, Tapestry exceeded a 10% reduction in water usage at its owned North America operations, a 15.2% reduction from its 2018 baseline. The company does not report how much water is withdrawn for its own operations in water-stressed areas. The company reports a decrease in water pollution. The company discloses its processes for managing and monitoring discharge water quality. The company uses the Higg FEM wastewater module to manage and monitor water discharge quality across its supply chain. The company does not regularly report on water pollution. The company does not disclose targets to reduce water pollution. The company does not disclose a commitment to respect the right to water. The company does not disclose 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 disclose a commitment to avoid developing or marketing new chemicals or products with SVHC (substance of very high concern) properties. The company is reducing the production of hazardous waste. No evidence that the company reduces plastic use and waste in its own operations was found. 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. The company does not report time-bound targets to reduce air pollutants across the most material parts of its value chain.

GHG emissions
Whilst Tapestry reduced its scope 1 emissions from FY2020-21, its scope 2 emissions increased substantially. The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions. The company does not report progress against its scope 1 and 2 emissions target. Tapestry’s Scope 3 emissions increased from FY2020 to FY2021. The company has a time-bound target to reduce its scope 3 emissions. The company does not report progress against its scope 3 emissions target.

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

Safe, healthy, clean environment
The company does not disclose a commitment 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 disclose a commitment to respecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights or land rights of local communities.

While the company conducts a materiality/risk assessment to identify the main risks to the business and it has identified human rights broadly as a risk, there is no evidence it has a process to identify which human rights are at risk of being impacted by it own operations, in specific locations or through specific activities, as part of a human rights due diligence process. 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 was found. No evidence was found that the company has a global system to act on its salient human rights issues. While the company discloses the categories of stakeholders it engages with generally on sustainability issues, it is not clear if these stakeholders are those whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities. No evidence that the company provides examples of its engagement with stakeholders whose human rights have been or may be affected by its activities was found.

The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it is committed to respecting the health and safety of workers. The company has a publicly available policy statement which shows it expects its suppliers to commit to respecting the health and safety of their workers. The company has an opportunity to disclose a time-bound target for paying all workers a living wage or that it has achieved paying all workers a living wage. The company has an opportunity to describe how it determines a living wage for the regions where it operates. 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 relation to those.

The company discloses a tax strategy, but it is not applicable to all its operations. No 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 was found. The company includes 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.