Description du projet
Supporting the responsible sourcing approach for cashmere in China

- In the context of a partnership with a renowned NGO, a major luxury brand is willing to improve its sourcing practices in order to reduce the environmental impacts related to its cashmere supply chains; cashmere being both strategic to the brand and a potentially high-impact material.
- Overview of ongoing initiatives and assessment of existing standards promoting responsible cashmere:
- Focus on Inner Mongolia (China) and on the upstream (cattle rearing)
- Assessment of major available standards
- Comparison of each standards’ features (date of publication, country of application, scope, volumes involved, reference documents…), requirements (type of criteria, topics covered, level of requirements…), and terms of verifications / audit (type of audits, frequency, assessors…)
- Experts interviews
- Synthesis and recommendations, identifying opportunities for action and constraints
This project allowed the NGO and its partner to:
- Understand better the current evolving context of sustainable cashmere in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia,
- Benefit from a deeper knowledge on the existing initiatives and their scope, level of requirements, strengths and weaknesses,
- Receive appropriate advice to guide ambition and decision-making.
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