Our Planet

Higher Standards for a More Sustainable Planet.

Across our operations and throughout our supply chain, we continue to stretch what’s possible in shrinking our environmental footprint.

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OUR 2025 STRATEGY BUILDS ON OUR PROGRESS TO DATE,

setting even higher standards for reducing our greenhouse gas emissions, decreasing waste and water use, and sourcing our materials in the most ethical and sourcing our materials responsibly.

OUR PRIORITIES

Green House Gas Emissions

As a leader in our industry, we have a responsibility to reduce our carbon footprint to help combat one of our generation’s greatest challenges—climate change. Our 2025 goals include reducing absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 CO2e emissions by 20 percent and reducing absolute Scope 3 CO2e emissions from ocean and air freight by 20 percent over a 2017 baseline. We are also working toward powering our stores, offices, and distribution centers with 100 percent renewable electricity by 2025.

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Emissions Drop During Pandemic

Since 2017, Tapestry has reduced Scope 1 and 2 emissions 57% and reduced Scope 3 emissions from freight shipping 50%.*
*Number heavily influenced by store closures and other measures taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in an overall lower energy and GHG footprint for Tapestry in late spring 2020.

Powering Our Stores with Renewable Energy

We increased adoptions of Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) purchases from 3,433 MWh in fiscal year 2019 to 3,944 MWh in fiscal year 2020.

Leading the Way with Leed-Certified Facilities

Tapestry’s global headquarters is LEED Platinum certified. Our Kate Spade New York offices and Jacksonville distribution center have both earned LEED Silver certification.

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Conserving Water

Ensuring the protection of clean, safe water is critical to our success as a company. We use water at every stage of our product life cycles, from growing raw materials to dyeing, tanning, and finishing products to the way consumers clean our products.We are aiming to reduce water usage across Tapestry and our supply chain by 10 percent by 2025.

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Less Water in Our Value Chain

Our water goal is to reduce water usage by 10 percent across our direct operations and supply chain by 2025. Since 2018, we have reduced water usage by 8.9 percent.

Supply Chain Sustainability and Tracking

In 2020, we joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) and requested for over 100 of our suppliers to complete the SAC’s Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM) and Higg Faciliity Social Labor Module (Higg FSLM).

Conserving Water in Rwanda

Our on purpose fund helped establish rainwater catchment and grey water recycling systems at health and community centers in Masoro, Rwanda.

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Traceability and Materials

Quality materials are at the heart of what we create, so holding the origins of those materials to high standards is paramount to our business. Among our 2025 goals: to procure 90 percent of our leather from Leather Working Group (LWG) Silver- and Gold-rated tanneries, and to achieve 95 percent traceability and mapping of our raw materials supply chains.

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Expanding Our Commitment to Responsible Sourcing

In 2020, 67% of the leather we sourced was from Gold- or Silver- rated tanneries. We will increase the leather we source from LWG Silver-and Gold-rated tanneries to 90% by 2025.

Gold-Rated Tannery Operates to Highest Standard

PrimeAsia, a supplier of Coach footwear, has earned a Gold Rating from LWG, the industry’s highest standard for environmental performance.

FabScrap Partnership

We take part in recycling programs to keep paper, plastics, metals, and electronics out of landfills. Where our teams have a surplus of sample materials, such as fabrics or leathers, we donate these offcuts to several organizations that either donate or recycle these materials. In 2020, we donated 3,120 lbs. to FabScrap.

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Reduce and Recycle

We look for ways to encourage recycling in our products to mitigate waste. We’re committed to increasing the amount of our packaging that’s made from recycled materials with a goal to have 75 percent recycled content in our packaging and a 25 percent reduction in corporate waste in North America by 2025.

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Reduce, Reuse, Repair

We believe one of the easiest ways to help customers cut down on waste is to ensure a long product lifetime. We provide customers at Coach the opportunity to have products repaired by our expert teams to extend their use. In 2020, we repaired a total of 28,258 Coach products, roughly 85% of all products sent back to us.

Stuart Weitzman Packaging Reduction Initiative

Stuart Weitzman reduced the paper wrap inside its shoe boxes from two sheets to one and reduced the interior board from a thickness of 2 millimeters to 1.5 millimeters for a total weight reduction of 20 percent.

Tons of Waste Diverted to Recycling

In 2020 across our distribution centers in Jacksonville, Florida, Westchester, Ohio and our offices, we had a total waste consumption of 4,199.73 tons and diverted 87% of this waste from landfills into recycling.

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