SAPPH

How sustainable is SAPPH?

This scree­ning has been done by Fai­rify on March 31^st 2020

Sapph is owned by Cool Invest­ments, a Dutch com­pany that offers limi­ted trans­pa­rency about its brands. The­re is no infor­ma­tion about its supply chain and mate­rial ori­gins remain lar­gely unk­nown.

The­re are a few tar­gets, like a higher per­cen­ta­ge of more sus­tai­na­ble cot­ton, and Cool
Invest­ments is imple­men­ting ways to decrea­se energy use in its sto­res, but most infor­ma­tion that is pro­vi­ded feels very frag­men­ted and cherry-pic­ked. Con­cer­ning ani­mal mate­rials, the com­pany sta­tes that it only uses Res­pon­si­ble Down Stan­dard down, but then doesn’t spe­cify the use of other ani­mal mate­rials. To ensu­re social stan­dards in its supply chain, it has part­ne­red up with Amfo­ri BSCI, which sets stan­dards and inde­pen­dently audits fac­to­ries. But then again, the results of the­se audits aren’t published. Cool Invest­ments also men­tions that it stri­ves for a cli­ma­te-friendly way of con­duc­ting busi­ness, but the­re is no trans­pa­rency con­cer­ning the emis­sions it gene­ra­tes whi­le con­duc­ting it.

Impro­ve­ments are nee­ded and the com­pany seems to have star­ted to put them in pla­ce. We need more infor­ma­tion about its emis­sions and actual cli­ma­te tar­gets to redu­ce the­se. Howe­ver, with a few sma­ller tar­gets the com­pany has set, it has begun its jour­ney towards sus­tai­na­bi­lity. But in order to really impro­ve and vali­da­te Cool Invest­ments’ efforts toward a more sus­tai­na­ble com­pany, the first actual step would be to offer more trans­pa­rency than it does now.

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