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Environmental Sustainability

Two decades ago, our groundbreaking Global Sourcing and Operating Guidelines changed the supply chain landscape by establishing ethical labor standards for our suppliers worldwide. Today, we’re applying the same courageous innovation to the challenges of Environmental Sustainability. With our industry-standard Restricted Substance List, Global Effluent Guidelines, and Environment, Health, and Safety Handbook, we’ve accomplished much—but we have a long way to go.

We believe that our responsibility goes far beyond mere regulatory compliance, beyond simply minimizing the environmental impact of our business practices. We are committed to building sustainability into everything we do, so that our profitable growth helps restore the environment.

To help focus our efforts, we’ve taken a product lifecycle approach. By looking at every stage of production, we’ve been able to identify our most significant environmental impacts and how to address them:

• Energy efficiency and climate change. We are committed to achieving carbon neutrality and moving to the use of 100% renewable energy in our operations and our supply chain.
• Water. We are decreasing water usage and improving water quality in significant, measurable ways.
• Resource efficiency. We are committed to becoming a zero-waste company offering consumers more sustainable products.
• Chemicals. We are minimizing the environmental impact from chemicals used in all stages of our product lifecycle.

Our next level of responsibility isn’t easy. It requires a long-term plan with measurable, targeted milestones. Honest self- and third-party assessment. Thoughtful product development. Innovative public policy. We’re working with partners and competitors to develop the next generation of global standards and goals. Our leadership involvement with organizations like the Better Cotton Initiative, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), the Apparel and Footwear International RSL Management (AFIRM) working group, and the Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy (BICEP) group allows us to share ideas and effect critical, real-world change, while learning from others.

We invite you to explore this area of our site and discover the ways in which we’re mapping out a vision for the environment that—in the spirit of our founder Levi Strauss—is committed, innovative, and sustainable in every sense of the word.