Collaboration, the essence of transformation

This initiative, fostered by the Spanish Government's High Commissioner against Child Poverty, is aimed at encouraging the engagement in and the creation of partnerships between all social actors to work towards a common mission: a Spain in which all children and adolescents have the same opportunities for the future, regardless of the conditions into which they are born. Inditex joined the Partnership in January 2021.

A collaboration initiative between retail brands, suppliers and trade unions to transform the textile industry and achieve living wages in the sector, by means of collective bargaining and responsible purchasing practices. Inditex has been an active participant in ACT and its work groups since 2015.

Inditex collaborates with the Arborus Endowment Fund, created by the Arborus association and large international corporations, with the support of the European Economic and Social Council. Its goal is to promote equality between women and men in the world, in particular through the dissemination of a European and global standard: the European and international label GEEIS (Gender Equality European and International Standard), which is a tool that fosters diversity and inclusion in enterprises and with which Inditex has certified several of its subsidiaries.

Based on the UN, this is a partnership of governments, companies and different international organisations, whose objective is to globally promote the transition towards a digital economy. We focus our collaboration with this alliance on the financial education and digitalisation of the supply chain.

A global non-profit organisation working with a network of over 200 members to build a fair and sustainable world. As a member of BSR since 2019, we are involved in several of the organisation's initiatives, such as the HER women empowerment programme or projects in relation to the social impact of the transition to a circular economy.

A global standard, formerly known as LBG, to measure corporate social impact. Inditex belongs to the global B4SI network which currently comprises more than 150 companies.

We have been working with the non-profit organisation Cáritas since 2007 to help improve well-being in the community. Within the frame of our strategic partnership with Cáritas, we are currently developing a number of projects such as the circular economy project Moda Re- or the programme to boost employment in Spain.

Cotton Campaign is an initiative led by companies and tertiary sector organisations to improve working conditions and defend human rights with regard to cotton production and supply.

Since 2001 we have been collaborating with the Jesuit-sponsored NGO with the goal of generating social change through education. Thanks to this partnership, over the last 20 years we have developed a number of educational programmes that have directly benefited more than 1.3 million vulnerable people in Africa, America and Asia.

A dialogue platform to improve working conditions of supply chain workers, comprising companies, international trade unions and non-governmental organisations. Inditex has been a member of ETI since 2005 and is an active participant of its programmes in different countries.

Like the ENAR Foundation (European Network Against Racism, which advocates racial equality), Inditex envisions a society where there is full equality, solidarity and well-being for all and where discrimination against people based on their skin colour, religion, culture, nationality or origin is not tolerated. In 2021, the ENAR Foundation granted the Holistic Diversity Management Certificate to the Inditex network of 34 Champions of Diversity in Europe, developed in conjunction with experts in D&I management.

A charitable organisation dedicated to helping women receive quality health care to prevent infant and maternal mortality. Our partnership with Every Mother Counts, which commenced in 2015, has developed (among others) a number of maternal health projects in countries such as Bangladesh and the United States.

Launched in 2018 as a joint initiative between tertiary sector organisations, local trade unions affiliated with IndustriALL Global Union (CCOO and UGT) and a number of Spanish textile brands, including Inditex. It aims to promote a forum for multi-stakeholder dialogue on global supply chains.

An international federation of trade unions representing more than 50 million industrial workers belonging to more than 600 trade unions in 140 countries. The collaboration with IndustriALL Global Union is embodied through the Global Framework Agreement, signed in 2007, the first to cover the entire supply chain of a textile company. The agreement, renewed in 2019, highlights the essential role of respect for freedom of association and collective bargaining rights. In this regard, the two organisations agreed to work together to ensure a more effective implementation of the International Labour Conventions.

This is the agreement signed in 2021 between brands and international trade unions, with non-governmental organisations acting as witnesses for its fulfilment. It encompasses the commitment to continue and expand the efforts, initiated in Bangladesh in 2013, for a safe and healthy textile industry. The International Accord recognises the RMG Sustainability Council (RSC) as the independent organisation that continues these efforts in Bangladesh. Inditex is a founding member and sits on the Steering Committee.

Inditex is a supporter of Open to All, a campaign led by retailers in the US to combat discrimination and make everyone entering our establishments feel welcome, regardless of their race, ethnicity, origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, religion or disability. This coalition brings together businesses and more than 200 non-profit organisations.

Since 2008 we have been cooperating with the medical-humanitarian endeavours of Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to help people threatened by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters or exclusion from medical care. As a result of this strategic partnership in community investment, we have rolled out projects in 52 countries that have benefited more than six million people.

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund is the foremost US legal organisation advocating for racial justice. Inditex collaborates with this organisation to finance projects primarily in the area of education that seek to improve access for African-American students, bringing about structural changes in society to eliminate disparities and achieve racial equality. NAACP LDF works for civil rights and to improve the quality of education.

Coalition of leading global companies dedicated to LGBT+ inclusion and the rights of the LGBT+ community (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) to prove that inclusive societies are better for business and that companies that promote LGBT+ inclusion are more dynamic, productive and innovative.

Methodology to measure business contributions to the community. Inditex is a member of LBG España, which currently comprises 19 companies.

The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a specialist UN body focusing on all matters relating to work and labour relations.

We collaborate closely in various spheres such as, for example, the Better Work programme, the SCORE programme, the Workplace Adaptation Programme and the covid -19 initiative: Call to Action in the Global Garment Industry.

In 2017 we entered in a three-year public-private partnership with the ILO aimed at jointly promoting core principles and labour rights in the cotton supply chain.

Inditex is a member of REDI, Spain's first inter-company and expert network for diversity and inclusion of LGBTI employees and allies. REDI aims to nurture an inclusive and respectful environment in organisations in which talent is appreciated, regardless of sexual identity, gender expression and sexual orientation.

As the heir of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety since 2020, the RMG Sustainability Council (RSC) delivers building safety inspection and remediation programmes in production facilities in Bangladesh. Textile brands, trade union federations and employers' associations in the country are represented equally on its Board. Inditex works actively with its suppliers and manufacturers in the aforementioned programmes and serves on the Board of Directors.

A non-profit organisation specialising in human rights. Since 2019, Inditex takes part in its Business Learning Programme, a programme for leadership in human rights that involves companies from all sectors in efforts to implement the Guiding Principles.

Founded by Tent Foundation, a non-profit organisation, this is a global network of more than 200 companies that seeks to mobilise the private sector to create partnerships to improve the lives of refugees.

In 2019, Inditex and the trade union federation UNI Global Union, which represents 20 million workers in more than 150 countries, celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Global Agreement reached by both entities in 2009 to foster respect for and promotion of labour rights and decent work across the commercial and distribution network.

We have been working since 2015 with the non-profit organisation Water.org to improve access to drinking water and sanitation for low income families in Bangladesh, Cambodia and India. As a result of our strategic partnership with Water.org, more than 2,300,000 people have improved their access to drinking water and sanitation through the granting of microloans.

Inditex and UNHCR have been working together since 2020 with the common goal of meeting the clothing needs of refugees and internally displaced people. Through this strategic partnership, Inditex, in collaboration with its suppliers, supports UNHCR in its task of sheltering refugees who have been forced to abandon their homes and helping to restore their dignity. Thanks to this partnership, Inditex has provided more than three million products from its collections to refugees and internally displaced people.

Pursuant to our strategic partnership with the University of A Coruna (UDC), we have implemented a range of programmes such as Intalent, the Inditex-UDC Sustainability Chair, the Inditex Chair of Spanish language and culture in Bangladesh, or the Inditex-UDC Predoctoral Residency Grant Programme, among others.

Through our partnership with Tsinghua University, since 2016 we have been involved in a number of academic programmes related to our community investment model. Notable among these are the Sustainable Development Fund, the Oversea Student Scholarship and Teaching Fund or the collaboration programme with this university's School of Economics and Management, among others.

As part of our community investment efforts, we have been cooperating with the University of Santiago de Compostela since 2010 to develop the Inditex Chair of Spanish language and culture in Bangladesh.

We work with Comillas Pontifical University to run the Inditex Chair of Refugees and Forced Migrants within the framework of our community investment.

Since 2010 we have been collaborating with the University of Dhaka in developing the Inditex Chair of Spanish language and culture. This Chair, located at the University of Dhaka's Institute of Modern Languages, promotes Spanish language and culture in Bangladesh through various academic and cultural dissemination initiatives, notably including annual courses in Spanish language and culture, the student mobility grants programme and the hosting of especially significant artistic events.

We have been collaborating with the Red Cross since 2004 in a number of emergency relief programmes linked to natural disasters and similar crises. Over the course of the last 17 years we have cooperated to tackle emergency situations in countries like India, China, Japan, Mexico, Australia, Italy and Spain, among others. We also have a stable arrangement with the Red Cross through programmes such as SALTA and Closing the Loop.

We collaborate with Miguel Hernandez University in Elche in offering the TEMPE-APSA Chair of Disability and Employability, as part of our community investment initiatives.

Since 2015, we have been working with this international NGO founded in 1963 towards the common goal of promoting the right to health. Through this partnership, we contribute to improving the social and health situation for workers in the garment industry in Morocco.

A collaborative initiative within the garment industry that brings together the endeavours of various operators, from areas encompassing waste collection, recycling, fibre production and textile distribution, to promote circularity. With the support of Textile Exchange, Euratex, Wrap, Circle Economy, Fashion for Good, ReFashion or Apparel Impact Institute among others, Inditex is a founding partner and member of the Steering Committee of the initiative in Europe, together with other members representing fibre manufacturers, and experts in textile waste and supply chains, as well as brands and retailers. We also belong to the initiative's Brand & Retailer Working Group in the US.

A partnership promoted by ECODES and the Spanish Group for Green Growth (Grupo de Crecimiento Verde), among others, to advocate for economically and socially effective stimulus policies and, in turn, to ensure they are aligned with sustainability and biodiversity policies.

An urgent call to action by a global coalition of United Nations agencies, business and industry leaders to commit to setting ambitious science-based emission reduction targets.

As founders of the Canopy Style initiative, we collaborate with Canopy Planet to protect primary high conservation-value (HCV) forests through the textile chain. This is a commitment to protecting these forests, and in particular to ensuring that no cellulose originating in this type of forests will be used in man-made fibres (viscose, modal, lyocell).

We have committed to implementing this Charter, launched by United Nations Climate Change, and aligned with the Paris Agreement goals. The aim is for the industry to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

We have signed up to this United Nations initiative that aims to support companies in the development, implementation and disclosure of their water-related strategies and policies.

We joined this initiative in 2020 with the aim of reducing the environmental impacts of worldwide freight transport and to promote responsible ocean freight. At the Clean Cargo Working Group, there is collaboration between companies dedicated to integrating environmental and socially responsible business principles into transport management. Its CO₂ emission calculation methodology is the shipping standard used by other initiatives, such as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) SmartWay programme and the Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC).

CoZEV is an initiative led by the Aspen Institute as part of its Shipping Decarbonization Initiative (SDI). This initiative has brought together a number of shippers to accelerate the transition to zero-emissions vessels and to establish a commitment to only use this kind of vessel by 2040.

Ten years after the Ellen MacArthur Foundation was launched, Inditex has strengthened its collaboration with the organisation by becoming a Partner.

This year we renewed our involvement as a member of the Advisory Board for its Make Fashion Circular initiative.

Furthermore, we ramped up our ambition on plastics reduction by signing a new commitment to the New Plastics Economy promoted by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in partnership with United Nations Environment to 2025. The commitment enables all plastics used in our business to be reused or recycled, in order to be reintroduced into the circuit, while cutting the amount of unnecessary plastic packaging and increasing the percentage of recycled content in such materials.

This year we also signed a manifesto with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, emphasising the Business Call for a UN Treaty on Plastic Pollution, calling on governments to ensure that the new treaty on plastic pollution includes measures and instruments that affect the entire life cycle of plastics, not just addressing the challenges associated with managing plastic waste.

We are co-founding partners of this agreement among leading companies in the fashion sector to set specific goals to handle the challenges of the industry in terms of fighting climate change, caring for oceans and conservation of biodiversity.

Fur Free Alliance is an international coalition of animal welfare protection organisations working to bring an end to the exploitation and killing of animals for their fur. Inditex is a member of the Fur Free Alliance's Fur Free Retailer Program.

At the Company we continue to strive to improve and afford continuity to circularity commitments made to the GFA and fulfilled in 2020. 100% of our stores continue to offer the used garment collection programme, we continue to train our design teams in circularity and we have accelerated our efforts to scale up textile-to-textile recycling.

In addition, Inditex is a founding partner, through its brands Pull&Bear and Bershka, in the Circular Fashion Partnership project, which supports the development of the recycling industry in Bangladesh.

We work with the Chinese Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) to improve the environmental management of our supply chain in China and to disseminate the results of wastewater analyses. We continue to work together to prepare a map to monitor the performance of textile companies in China.

This year we have signed up to the LEAF Coalition, coordinated by Emergent and combining public and private involvement. It focuses on protecting tropical forests from deforestation and on supporting sustainable development in the countries where they are located.

Race to Zero is a campaign under the umbrella of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) aimed at driving the change to a decarbonised economy.

It is a non-profit organisation dedicated to sustainable transport. Its vision is to achieve an efficient global logistics sector and zero emissions, that contributes to the goals of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. To achieve this vision, they bring together the global logistics community through their Global Logistics Emissions Council (GLEC).

As members of the Textile Exchange, we partner with this independent and non-profit organisation that is an international benchmark in the sector. It is a platform to promote organic grown cotton, and global sustainability within the textile sector.

In this organisation, we join forces with the rest of the industry in order to move forward together in fulfilling our commitment to Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals, a pledge to restrict and eliminate certain chemicals in the product manufacturing process.

Inditex is one of over 150 companies involved in Science Based Targets that have signed a declaration in 2020 urging governments worldwide to align their recovery efforts to combat the crisis caused by covid-19 and work on economic aid, using cutting-edge climate-related scientific developments.

An open call ahead of the fifth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly, which seeks to encourage talks among UN member states to create an international treaty on plastic pollution to help drive the transition to a circular economy for plastics.

A working forum comprising leading companies in the fashion, footwear and sport goods sector that share the common goal of reducing the use and impact of substances of health and environmental concern in the textile and leather supply chain.

In Turkey, we have established a long and fruitful collaboration with ITKIB (Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporter Associations) and EKOTEKS (the customs surveillance laboratory), to develop new techniques for the analysis of cosmetics and sustainable fibres.

At Inditex, we belong to the Better Cotton initiative, which develops and promotes best practices in traditional cotton cultivation to benefit the farmers and the environment, and to ensure the future of the sector.

We cooperate actively with Spain's Employers' Association (CEOE), which is the main spokesperson between companies in Spain and the Government and international institutions. At Inditex, we belong to several working groups linked to various aspects related with sustainability and circularity.

We participate in the Pre-Testing Programme with CIQ Shanghai, which belongs to the China Customs Inspection and Quarantine Department, reserved for companies with a very high level of compliance with health regulations on imported goods.

We are actively involved with EuroCommerce, the largest representative body of the retail industry in Europe, comprising 6 million retail and wholesale companies from various sectors.

We are also members of its environmental committee and founding members of its representative body TEFRIG, made up of companies form the textile sector.

We are a founding member and sit on the Investor Committee of Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA). This initiative seeks the commitment to help develop a responsible and healthy market of organic cotton for all parties involved.

We are active members of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), a textile sector initiative to develop a common sustainability index to assess the performance of brands, retailers, suppliers and products.

Sustainable Fibre Alliance (SFA) is an international non-profit organisation working with cashmere supply chains, from herders to retailers. Its purpose is to promote a global sustainability standard in cashmere production so as to preserve and restore pastureland, ensure animal welfare and guarantee livelihood.

We are actively involved with Policy Hub, which brings together the textile industry and its stakeholders in order to accelerate the sector's circular transformation.

Fashion for Good is a global innovation accelerator specialising in the textile sector. Through this platform, brands, producers, suppliers, non-profit organisations and innovators work together to scale sustainable solutions.

At Inditex we participated in a study on the actual typology of post-consumer textile waste according to their characteristics and compositions. The aim is to gauge textile waste sorting capacities in Europe.

Within the framework of our Closing the Loop Programme, we collaborate with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) to research the development of recycling processes and the creation of textile fibres through new non-polluting methods or from waste, as well as any other sustainable initiative related to the circular economy in the textile industry.

We have endowed the Inditex Materials Science and Engineering Fellowship Fund Chair at MIT's Department of Materials Science and Engineering. This lifelong chair focuses on promoting research into sustainability.

Inditex belongs to a group of founding companies of the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium (MCSC), created to accelerate the development of large-scale solutions to stop climate change. The initiative brings together leading multinationals of various industries to work with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to pool environmental innovation processes and strategies.

Inditex carries out research in conjunction with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia on the microplastics present in marine ecosystems as a result of waste water from washing clothes. The project focuses on minimising the detachment of these particles (measuring less than 5mm) from garments, with the aim of preventing them from ending up in the sea.

The development of the best leather tanning and finishing technologies, as well as sensitive and versatile methods for the analysis of key substances such as formaldehyde and chromium (VI), are the focus of our cooperation with A3 Center.