Episode 7: Driving emissions reduction in the fashion industry, with Global Fashion Group

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In this podcast episode, we speak with Jaana Quaintance-James, the Chief Sustainability Officer of Global Fashion Group. Global Fashion Group, or GFG for short, serves customers in 17 countries and connects one billion potential consumers with thousands of global, local and own brands via its e-commerce platforms. We talk about GFG’s strategy on how carbon emissions can be tackled in the fashion industry and how GFG drives emissions reduction across their worldwide operations.

We uncover fascinating facts about where the bulk of carbon emissions are generated, investigate the embedded carbon footprint of materials used in garments and shoes, and how suppliers and consumers can make more sustainable choices. We talk about GFG’s science-based target setting approach and their current carbon offset strategy.

About Global Fashion Group
Global Fashion Group, or GFG for short, serves customers in 17 countries and connects one billion potential consumers with thousands of global, local and own brands via its e-commerce platforms. Each platform is operated under an individual brand name: Dafiti (in Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Colombia), Lamoda (in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine), ZALORA (in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei) and THE ICONIC (in Australia and New Zealand).

GFG announced its carbon mitigation strategy in their 2020 Climate Report. In that strategy, GFG prioritises the three biggest levers for carbon reduction: products, logistics and operations. Collectively, these three categories contributed more than 80% of GFG total emissions in 2020 and therefore provide significant opportunity for reduction.
In addition to the reduction activities focussed on these three areas, GFG has committed to developing Science-based targets. Carbon modelling work is now underway.

https://global-fashion-group.com/ or LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/global-fashion-group/

About Jaana Quaintance-James
Jaana is the Chief Sustainability Officer at GFG. Jaana holds accountability for the development and implementation of the Group’s sustainability vision to be People & Planet Positive, Worldwide. Leading teams in Australia, southeast Asia, Latin America, Russia & the CIS, she drives development and delivery of the group strategy in relation to ethical trade, environment, community and responsible workplace and works closely with internal and external stakeholders to deliver the change agenda for sustainability globally.

If you want to get in touch with Jaana, you can connect with her on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaanasupplychainsustainability/

Meet the host
Barbara Albert is the Co-CEO of 100% Renewables. She is passionate about business and works to make organisations’ transition to net-zero emissions simpler and profitable. Barbara is the award-winning author of ‘Energy Unlimited – Four Steps to 100% Renewable Energy‘, one of the world’s most important books on renewable energy, as ranked by peers and experts in the industry.
About 100% Renewables:
In 2015, we developed one of the first organisational plans to achieve 100% renewable energy. Since then, we have helped over 100 organisations develop their net zero plan and have grown the business to a national team of net zero specialists. We are known for developing strategies that are pragmatic, based on sound business cases, and have organisational buy-in.

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1. Episode 7: Driving emissions reduction in the fashion industry, with Global Fashion Group (00:00:00)

2. About Global Fashion Group and introduction of guest (00:00:39)

3. Global carbon footprint of GFG (00:06:50)

4. Climate leadership and targets (00:12:36)

5. External factors that influence GFG’s strategy (00:22:00)

6. Measuring GFG’s carbon footprint (00:26:26)

7. Emission reduction opportunities (00:33:05)

8. Carbon offset strategy (00:50:32)

9. Physical and transition risks (00:57:18)

10. What can we do as consumers and take away messages (00:58:47)