EDJNet Fashion Promises Database – Public

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1	European Companies' Plastics Promises
2	We investigated almost 500 sustainability claims from 17 of the biggest European fashion companies to find who can keep their commitments, and who skirts the issue.
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5	This is the database behind this collaboration. You can find more information, as well as a link to all articles that came out of this investigation, in this GitHub repository:
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7	https://github.com/dw-data/sustainable-fashion
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9	Database Overview
10	Companies	list of companies included in this investigation
11	Pledges	list of pledges collected
12	Documents	list of documents checked for each company
13	Analysis 1: Pledges	Pivot tables showing e.g. the number of pledges by company, status or specificity
14	Analysis 2: Timeline	Summary of reports by year, with number of pledges found in each
15	Analysis 3: Materials	Excerpt of pledges relating to cotton and leather, respectively
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18	Database Structure
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20	Companies			Pledges
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22		Company	name of the company		ID	Numeric pledge ID
23		Country	country of company headquarter / origin		Company	name of company
24		Main sectors	note on type of company		pledge status	achieved, failed, future or unclear
25		Publicly listed?	yes or no. is this a publicly listed company?		Company response	Free-text entry for company comment on respective pledge
26	Revenue	Revenue	annual revenue of company	Analysis categories	specificity	how clearly defined is the pledge?
27		Revenue Year	year this refers to		category	type/topic of promise
28		Revenue Unit	unit this is measured in		subcategory	if applicable, finer category for further analysis
29		Revenue Source	link to / name of source for this info	Pledge info	pledge year	year the promise was made
30	Employees	Employees	number of employees		goal year	target year
31	Employees	Employees Source	link to / name of source for this info		goal description	free-text description
32	Retail volume	Retail volume	number of articles / volume of material sold annually		goal value	(numeric) value of target, if applicable
33		Retail volume year	year this refers to		goal unit	unit this is measured in
34		Retail volume unit	unit this is measured in		report year	year the pledge was sourced from, extracted from "goal source"
35		Retail volume source	link to / name of source for this info		goal source	link to source
36	Sustainability info	Company Website	link to company website		goal Notes	additional info, e.g. page in source document
37		Sustainability website	link to company sustainability website	Reality: Baseline year	baseline year	baseline year
38		Shop Website	link to online shop of company		baseline description	free-text description
39		First sustainability report year	year the company first published a sustainability report		baseline value	(numeric) value in baseline year
40					baseline unit	unit this is measured in
41					baseline source	link to source
42					baseline Notes	additional info, e.g. page in source document
43				Reality: Goal year / most recent year	target/current year	target year or most recent year for which documentation is available
44					target description	free-text description
45					current value	(numeric) value in target year
46					target unit	unit this is measured in
47					target source	link to source
48					target Notes	additional info, e.g. page in source document
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