Awards and recognitions

In 2024, CDP gave us an A for our climate leadership this year, reflecting our efforts to increase transparency and deliver tangible progress.

We remained in the Dow Jones European and World Sustainability Indexes for the 13th year running in 2024. We achieved best-in-class scores in several areas including climate strategy, water efficiency management programs, and human rights commitment. Only four retailing companies made it into the European index and eleven into the World index.

In 2024, Fashion Revolution released a special edition of its Fashion Transparency Index zooming in on climate and energy related transparency. In What Fuels Fashion? We scored 61% placing us 3rd out of the 250 companies reviewed.

We were featured in FTSE4Good Index Series, which helps investors identify companies demonstrating strong environmental, social and governance standards.

We were identified as one the companies with best practice in climate policy advocacy in the 2023 Corporate Climate Policy Engagement Leaders report.

In their 2022 report, Platform Living Wage Financial (PLWF) assessed our work on wages in the supply chain as “advanced” for the second year running. Out of the 34 garment companies included in the report, only two received “advanced”, the second highest category. PLWF is an alliance of 19 financial institutions that monitors and encourages companies to address the non-payment of living wages in global supply chains.

H&M Group ranked 2 in Remake’s 2024 Fashion Accountability Report that rates 52 fashion companies in six different areas including traceability, raw materials, wages and wellbeing, and commercial practices. 

In 2023, Stand.earth placed us at the top of their Fossil Free Fashion Scorecard. The report rates fashion brands in five areas – commitments and transparency, renewable energy, low carbon materials, shipping, and advocacy. Overall, we achieved B-, the highest out of all the 43 brands included. 

Textile Exchange identified us as one of 11 brands leading transformational change in the 2024 Material Change Index. In addition, we were one of four brands receiving a level 4 (leading) score on all three sections – business integration, circular economy and impact areas. 

In 2024, we were awarded Champion Level (previously called “Aspirational”) for our leadership in implementation of chemical management in our supply chain by ZDHC.