2021 in Numbers

Individual Responsability

104 members participated in the Review Process

Progress

Any company that has set targets in the previous Review Process will report on progress towards those goals. Progress reporting follows the “comply-or-explain” principle. If a company has not achieved a goal, it must explain to what extent it deviated from the goal, what the reason was, and what it did to achieve the goal.

In the 2019 Review Process, the members have set themselves 515 goals. They have achieved 405 of these by the 2021 Review Process.

New goals in the 2021 Review Process

The core of the reporting is the risk analysis and risk prioritization along eleven social, ecological and corruption risks. On this basis, PST member companies derive goals to prevent potential risks and mitigate actual negative effects.

In the Review Process, the member companies have set themselves 871 targets for the 11 sector risks.

Note: Only the goals of the members who were able to publish their report by March 2022 are taken into account here. Since individual companies are in the mediation process, the figures can still change.

Joint goal on sustainable cotton

Since 2018, every cotton-procuring Partnership member has been obliged to set an individual increase goal for sustainable cotton in the Review Process. In the progress report of the subsequent Review Process, the member explains whether or to what extent it has achieved the goal. The growth target is an individual goal set every two years to increase the proportion of organic cotton and/or otherwise sustainable cotton.

The Partnership companies are only a few steps away from the joint cotton target. By 2025, the share of sustainable cotton is to be increased to a total of 70 percent and the proportion of organic cotton contained in it to 20 percent. In the 2021 Review Process, the Partnership companies stated that they procured 971,471 tons of cotton, of which 14.7 percent were organic cotton or in-conversion and 50.4 percent cotton from other sources recognized as sustainable.

In chapter 4 you can read detailed background information on the 2021 Review Process.

Further information on the Review Process can be found on the Textiles Partnership website as well as the Review reports of all members.

Chapter 3.1
Members
Chapter 3.3
Collective Engagement