Selfridges has become the latest major brand to set out its strategy for delivering net zero carbon emissions, unveiling a raft of stretching sustainability goals that include a promise to ensure that the majority of the environmentally impactful materials it uses in its products, packaging, and stores meet stringent sustainability certifications. The luxury retailer has said that by 2025 it will only stock products that adhere to sustainable sourcing material requirements for plastic, cocoa, cotton, palm oil, wood and paper, leather, meat, feathers and forest-derived fibres. The criteria that underpin each material’s requirements have been developed with certification bodies and green groups, including Greenpeace, the Woodland Trust, and WWF, and all targets are in line with a 1.5C warming scenario and have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative. In addition, the company today revealed it is launching a new labelling scheme that it said would signpost customers in store and online to organic, vegan, or reduced waste products.

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