"From Red to Green Carpet" – 2023
“From Red to Green Carpet” is a five-year plan, which aims to create the same luxury that today parades on the most famous Red Carpets by drastically reducing the impact on the environment. And Pattern has identified three maingoals to achieve:
1. CARBON NEUTRAL
2. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY
3.CIRCULAR ECONOMY & REVALUE WASTEBy 2023, we aim to become carbon neutral by using renewable energy and increasing efficiency and energy savings. Also, we add social sustainability to ensure a quality work environment that can stimulate our employees, and economic sustainability, sustaining a continuous growth using certified and quality raw materials. The last goal is to apply the principles of the CE, not only on our brand Esemplare, but also in everyday work, revaluing and reducing wastes.
PATTERN RESPONDS TO THE UN INVITATION
TARGETS:
· Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic and public life
· Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels
TARGETS:
· Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors
· Improve progressively, through 2030, global resource efficiency in consumption and production and endeavour to decouple economic growth from environmental degradation, in accordance with the 10-year framework of programmes on sustainable consumption and production, with developed countries taking the lead
· By 2030, devise and implement policies to promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
· Protect labour rights and promote safe and secure working environments for all workers, including migrant workers, in particular women migrants, and those in precarious employment
· By 2020, develop and operationalize a global strategy for youth employment and implement the Global Jobs Pact of the International Labour Organization
TARGETS:
· Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries
· By 2030, upgrade infrastructure and retrofit industries to make them sustainable, with increased resource-use efficiency and greater adoption of clean and environmentally sound technologies and industrial processes, with all countries taking action in accordance with their respective capabilities
· Enhance scientific research, upgrade the technological capabilities of industrial sectors in all countries, in particular developing countries, including, by 2030, encouraging innovation and substantially increasing the number of research and development workers per 1 million people and public and private research and development spending
TARGETS:
· By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
· By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
· Encourage companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
Pattern crede nell’importanza del contributo di ciascun dipendente nel migliorare la qualità e la consapevolezza del proprio ed altrui lavoro, per questo motivo aderisce allo standard internazionale di Responsabilità Sociale d’ Impresa SA8000 che tutela il suo personale e ne incentiva la sua partecipazione agli obiettivi dell’azienda, nonché monitora l’applicazione di questi principi presso i suoi partner, fornitori ed appaltatori. Per questi motivi dal 2013 Pattern redige un proprio bilancio sociale SA8000. SA8000 è verificabile attraverso un processo basato sulle evidenze. I suoi requisiti si applicano universalmente, indipendentemente dalla grandezza di un’azienda, dalla collocazione geografica o dal settore industriale. Essere conformi ai requisiti di questo standard di responsabilità sociale permette all’azienda di sviluppare, mantenere ed attuare politiche e procedure per gestire le situazioni che essa può controllare o influenzare in termini di gestione, formazione e crescita del personale, salute e sicurezza sul lavoro, clima lavorativo.
Circular economy
A circular economy is an economy designed to regenerate on its own. A circular economy takes the idea from retroactive mechanisms, not linear, that characterize living systems and assumes that economic systems should function as organisms, where nutrients are processed and used, and then reintroduced in the biological and technical cycle. From this derives the concept of a “closed cycle” or “regenerated” of circular economy. The circular economy is a system in which all activities are organized so that waste can be transformed into resources within the system. In contrast to the linear economy, where, at the end of the production cycle, what remains becomes waste, forcing the economic chain to continuously resume the same pattern: extraction, production, consumption, disposal. A product that can be modular, versatile, and able to adapt is a product that can fully exploit the potentialities offered by Circular Economy. Modularity, versatility and adaptability are to be privileged in a fast evolving and uncertain world. Having as goal circular economy, we should focus on long lasting products, developed for updates, aging and repairs, considering strategies as sustainable design. This is the objective to which Esemplare tends, and that starting with 2017 focused on environmental sustainability and technology. The brand is engaged in research and studies, engineers and develops in Italy its collections born from continuous experimentations, using Italian and eco-sustainable fabric, in balance with tradition and innovation, generating outerwear that guarantee high performance based on the distinctive traits of the brand.
discover more about esemplareSUSTAINABILITY REPORT
Pattern 2017 Sustainability Report, written for the third year in a row, is the expression of a business culture based on the real implementation of the Corporate Social Responsibility principles. This Report has been drafted following the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines of the GRI (Global Reporting Initiative). Particularly, we have applied the Content Reporting Principles (Stakeholder Inclusiveness, Sustainability context, Materiality, Completeness) and the information quality (Balance, Comparability, Accuracy, Timeliness, Clarity, Reliability) as indicated in the G4 version. We have also followed the indications of the General Standard Disclosures required by the Framework. After identifying the main stakeholders, we have developed a Materiality Matrix. The sustainable performance analysis (economic, environmental and social) is based on a series of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), developed according to the GRI-G4 indicators. For the social and economic aspects, we have considered the principles of accountability written by the Social Statements Study Group (GBS), in an integrative way.
The Summary Table at the end of the report, illustrates the topics discussed in the text about the specific GRI -G4 indicators.
