🏆We achieved 7️⃣ out of 10 sustainable articles in 2022 and almost 8️⃣ in 2023 at reasonable assurance twice, verified by KPMG Deutschland and PwC Deutschland, respectively. I can't elaborate better than what's in adidas 2023 Annual Report — excerpts added below.
🙏It has been a privilege to lead this program since 2021 and achieve these beautiful results with our capable and committed leaders: Carol Mace, Dr. Sven Schwarz, Dr. Michael Otto, Georg Krebelder, Britta Brings, Emmanuelle Damay, Karen Chan, Rocky W., Felix Willfeld, Jesper Pardieck, Josje van der Wielen, Carina Clausing, Robert Kravec and their amazing teams beyond this list!
🎉We have held ourselves accountable to a high standard and laid a critical foundation to create more transparency and data accuracy to meet future requirements. Kudos to all of us, and let's celebrate! 👏🍾🎊
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P.90-91, adidas 2023 Annual Report:
"In 2023, almost eight out of ten of our articles were sustainable according to this definition, and consequently exceeded our planned annual milestone set for this year. This achievement was supported by progress across all categories. More than 90% of all apparel and accessories and gear articles were already sustainable. Our sustainable footwear offering nearly doubled compared to the previous year, despite the technical difficulty to develop sustainable solutions at scale. On top, we experienced challenges with regard to the availability of more sustainable, high-performing, and economically scalable materials in 2023.
Critical to this success was the progressive evolution of foundational capabilities to create more transparency and higher accuracy for material and product data. This required investments into our IT infrastructure and now enables automated measurement of sustainable components for each of our articles. Progress toward this target was successfully verified by a third party for the second consecutive year under the most reliable form of auditing (‘reasonable assurance’), increasing awareness across the entire company and supporting our system readiness for future requirements."
Ready to deep dive into our 2023 performance? Or maybe you want to find out more about our sustainability efforts? Check out our 2023 Annual Report: https://adidas.pub/3wOS2mt