The toolkit, available on the foundation’s website, is directed at brands, suppliers, policymakers, and investors across the textile supply chain.
It provides structured workshops and digital resources designed to help organisations pinpoint leverage points to halve greenhouse gas emissions and deliver what the foundation calls a “just transition”.
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H&M Foundation CEO Anna Gedda said: “Change won’t come from islands of perfection – in a system as interconnected as fashion, every part influences the other. The System Map helped make that visible and now this toolkit makes it usable. If we want to halve emissions every decade, we have to stop optimising in silos and start pulling the right levers together.”
H&M Foundation introduced the System Map in 2024, framing the textile industry as an ecosystem influenced by flows of capital, incentives, regulation, innovation, and consumer demand.
The map presents the full value chain from fibre production through to end-of-life, alongside indicative carbon emissions at each stage and systemic forces such as profit priorities and power imbalances.
The new toolkit translates this framework into practical action, the foundation said.
Developed in partnership with Accenture, it comprises three workshop modules: identifying an organisation’s role and influence within the system, locating critical leverage points for intervention, and envisioning a decarbonised future for the sector.
These sessions are intended for use by a wide range of industry stakeholders, including manufacturers, innovators, researchers and civil society groups.
By mapping connections between actors and revealing how decisions can impact emissions across the entire chain, the foundation says the toolkit is designed to avoid simply shifting costs or burdens from one part of the supply chain to another. Instead, it offers a way to examine structural barriers and power dynamics that can hinder effective climate action.
Both the original System Map and the new facilitation materials remain open-access resources.
The foundation maintains that coordinated action based on a shared understanding of these systems will be essential if the industry is to reach its stated goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions each decade until 2050.
The organisation’s approach emphasises collaboration over isolated efforts, stating that “structural transformation will not come from isolated efforts. It will come when more actors work from a shared view of the system and choose to redesign it together.”
In October last year, H&M Foundation partnered with Accenture on a report that suggests a re-evaluation of the fashion sector’s transformation plan.
