The H&M Foundation Launches Open-Access Workshop Toolkit to Accelerate Textile Industry Decarbonisation
Stockholm – Sweden – March 2026 – The H&M Foundation has announced the launch of a practical, open-source workshop toolkit designed to help organisations across the textile industry apply its innovative System Map.
Introduced earlier in 2024, the System Map is a visual framework that reimagines the fashion industry as an interconnected ecosystem.
Now, this comprehensive toolkit empowers brands, suppliers, policymakers, and investors to turn systemic insights into actionable strategies, identifying crucial leverage points to halve greenhouse gas emissions every decade until 2050 while enabling a just transition.
The textile industry faces a critical climate challenge that requires unprecedented structural alignment rather than just ambition.
To address this, the System Map challenges the traditional linear view of fashion. It achieves this by visualising the full textile value chain from fibre to end-of-life, alongside indicative carbon emissions and systemic forces such as profit-centredness, power imbalances, and cultural norms.
By mapping these actors, flows, and leverage points, the framework reveals where strategic decisions can unlock system-wide impact, preventing well-intended actions from simply shifting burdens to other areas.
Anna Gedda, CEO of the H&M Foundation, 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."
To translate these vital insights into daily practice, the H&M Foundation engaged Accenture to develop a facilitation toolkit that can be delivered either digitally or in person.
The programme features a keynote introduction to the System Map, followed by three structured workshops.
These collaborative sessions guide participants through identifying their role and sphere of influence, pinpointing systemic leverage points, and reimagining a decarbonised and equitable future for the textile system.
The toolkit is specifically designed to unite diverse stakeholders, including manufacturers, innovators, researchers, and civil society organisations.
By providing a structured method to examine power dynamics and structural barriers, the new toolkit supports coordinated and equitable climate strategies.
With these resources now publicly available for download, the H&M Foundation urges the industry to move from merely understanding the system to actively reshaping it together.
About H&M Foundation
The H&M Foundation supports the industry in halving its greenhouse gas emissions every decade by 2050, while promoting a just transition for both people and the planet.
