Sustainable Fashion and Business Practices

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This assignment is divided into 2 parts for a total of 35 marks.
Part I – Understanding Sustainability (3 marks)
1. Below are three examples of unsustainable actions in the fashion industry. Write the relevant pillar of sustainability next to each unsustainable action. Not only a, b, c or 1,2,3 but the full sentences as outlined in your course materials (3 marks)
Example Number Unsustainible action:
a) Fast-Fashion company Shein, has become one of the world’s largest fast fashion online marketplaces which generated $15.7 billion in 2021, a 60 percent increase from $9.8 billion in 2020 (Curry, 2022). While the brand is financially successful, it is being accused to foster unconscious consumption and for labour explotation with employees working 75 hours per week (Jones, 2021). – Relevant Pillar:
b) Since January 2022, garment workers in California are protected by the Garment Worker Protection Act, also known as SB62. This bill, requires that garment workers are being paid an hourly wage and not by completed pieces. For years, manufacturers were allowed to pay workers per garment, resulting in a salary of less than $6 per hour, significantly below the minimum wage. Remake hopes the protection act will also be signed by other states. – Relevant Pillar:
c) Luxury brands like Louis Vuitton or Burberry made headlines for destroying its expensive, unsold products, to avoid products being on sale and to maintain the high desirability of the brand. Such action is waisting resources and pollutes the environment through incineration.– Relevant Pillar:
Part II – Self-directed research questions about Corporate Social Responsibility reporting: (32 marks)
Open the Hugo Boss Sustainability Report from 2021 https://group(dot)hugoboss(dot)com/fileadmin/media/pdf/sustainability/sustainability_reports_EN/HUGO_BOSS_Sustainability_Report_2021.pdf
2.Name the six sustainability fields of action Hugo Boss is working on. (2 marks – no partial marks)
3.Hugo Boss is working on ten sustainable development goals (SDGs). Which ones does the company target for its employees? Please write down the 3 goals. (3 marks)
4.What are the company’s reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions for its own area of responsibility (Scope 1 and 2), and those which are outside of the Company’s own area of responsibility (Scope 3). (2 marks)
5.Decribe two actions how the company wants to achieve its reduction targets to become carbon neutral. (2 x 4 = 4 marks)
6.Which Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting frameworks or standards are guiding Hugo Boss’ CSR report? (2 marks)
7.To strengthen its sustainability efforts Hugo Boss has signed agreements with other organizations to cooperate. Name two of these co-operations and describe briefy what the goal of these organizations is. Make sure you provide not only the source but also the page number and lines in the report. (2 marks for the name of the organization and 2 x 2 marks for the description of the goal of the organization = 6 marks)
8.How does Hugo Boss protect animal welfare? Choose all that apply. (2 marks – no partial marks)
a)Opposing animal testing and inappropriate animal breeding and husbandry methods.
b)Using only fake fur.
c)Uses only selected leather types from sheep, goats, cows, and buffalo that are a by-product of the food industry and is also looking for replacement materials.
d)Using only mulesing-free wool in all garments made of wool by 2030.
e)Cooperating with with the Aid by Trade Foundation to develop The Good Cashmere Standard for the sourcing of responsibly produced cashmere fibers.
9.Explain in one sentence or two what “RESPONSIBLE styles” are for Hugo Boss and how Hugo Boss makes these producs visible. (2 marks for the explanation, 1 mark for the description how they are made visible = 3 marks)
10.How does Hugo Boss understand “corporate volunteering”? Explain. (2 marks)
11.Emplyees do best if there own values are in alliance with those of their employers. Look for two topics which you think Hugo Boss is not addressing or is not making suffient progress and describe what kind of action you would like to see. (2 x 3 = 6 marks)