Citizenship & Sustainability
Progress on Our Goals
- TARGET
- PROGRESS
- By the end of FY31, ensure Design with Intent programs are integrated within seasonal product launches across brands on a sustained basis.
- Introduced three integrated seasonal collections within Polo Ralph Lauren and Ralph Lauren Home via Design with Intent programs and expanded our roster of Authentic Makers.
- By the end of CY30, reduce absolute Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions by 30% from a FY20 base year.
- Reduced absolute emissions by 42% in FY26 from our FY20 baseline
- By the end of FY31, reduce freshwater intensity associated with textile processing by 15% in priority water-stressed basins, measured from a FY20 base year.
- We began this work by identifying high-impact water interventions, embedding the goal in our supplier engagement strategy and creating a freshwater tracking framework
- By the end of FY31, at least 70% of our business will be with high-performing suppliers that meet our strategic and key partnership expectations, including business, quality and impact.
- In FY26, 72% of our business was with strategic and key suppliers that met our business, quality, citizenship and sustainability performance criteria — compared to 70% in FY25
- By the end of FY31, make empowerment and life skills programs available to 250,000 workers across our supply chain.
- Reached over 165,000 supply chain workers through our empowerment and life skills programs through FY26
- By the end of FY31, ensure all strategic and key suppliers will have the capabilities and systems in place to deliver fair and timely compensation.
- Implemented Human Resource Management Playbook at two factories in Vietnam and Bangladesh to validate impact and inform scaling to strategic and key suppliers
- TARGET
- PROGRESS
- By the end of FY31, 30% of our global cotton volume for apparel will consist of regeneratively grown cotton and/or recycled cotton.
- Began increasing our use of regeneratively grown cotton and expanded initiatives to recycle our cotton waste into new textile yarns, accounting for less than 1% of our global cotton volume for apparel.
- By the end of FY31, ensure that 85% of our apparel units (by volume) will be created in accordance with our Circular Principles.
- Created 79% of apparel units (by volume) in accordance with at least two of our Circular Principles.
- TARGET
- PROGRESS
- By the end of FY31, maintain Global Employee Survey engagement and enablement scores at or above the high-performing norm.1
- Achieved 86% engagement and 80% enablement scores in the Global Employee Annual Survey, exceeding the high-performing norm.
- TARGET
- PROGRESS
- Increase our FY31 global financial support to cancer-related organizations, including the Pink Pony Fund of The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation, by 25% from a FY25 base year.
- Achieved a 14% increase in global financial support to cancer-related organizations (including the Pink Pony Fund) in FY26.
Ongoing Commitments
- TARGET
- PROGRESS
- Maintain 100% preferred material attributes [hover tool] for our key materials.
- 99% of units produced met at least one of our preferred material criteria in FY26.
- Use safer and more sustainable chemicals throughout our business to address their human and environmental impact.
- Gained 98% visibility of chemical use in Tier 1 manufacturing (by spend); achieved 93% conformance with the ZDHC Manufacturing Restricted Substances (MRSL) across reported chemicals.
- Maintain no on-site coal consumption in Tier 1 and Tier 2 manufacturing facilities.
- Completed 2023-2025 coal phase-out program by eliminating on-site coal consumption across all facilities in scope of the program.
- Maintain 100% recyclable, reusable or preferred material attributes for our packaging materials.5
- 93% of our total packaging volume met at least one of our preferred packaging criteria.
- Maintain > 90% diversion rate of waste from landfill or incineration across our distribution centers.
- Achieved 93% waste diversion rate from landfill and incineration across our distribution centers, exceeding the Zero Waste International Alliance definition of zero waste.6
- All preferred wood suppliers for new Ralph Lauren store interiors will continue to use preferred material attributes forwood substrates.7
- Maintained our target by continuing to invest in renewable energy attribute certificates, accounting for 100% of our global electricity use in our owned and operated facilities.