At its recent Canopy Summit in China, Canopy reissued the results of its 2018 Hot Button report which we find as misrepresenting APRIL as a \u201chigh risk\u201d supplier to viscose manufacturers, Sateri and Asia Pacific Rayon.<\/p>\n
Our view<\/a> stands: this is a subjective categorization that demonstrates an exclusionary approach and risks undermining the objectivity of Canopy\u2019s assessment framework.<\/p>\n Since 2015, APRIL and Canopy have met multiple times to address issues raised by Canopy and to offer a contextual understanding of the local landscapes. Canopy has also visited APRIL\u2019s operations and the RER restoration area. This engagement has been led by APRIL\u2019s Chairman Bey Soo Khiang and included representatives from APRIL\u2019s various advisory groups to provide Canopy as many opportunities as possible to discuss progress and ongoing challenges.<\/p>\n However, the continued misrepresentation of the Island of Sumatra \u2013 home to more than 50 million people \u2013 as consisting entirely of what Canopy calls \u2018ancient and endangered forest\u2019 essentially renders any sustainable agriculture and plantation forestry in Sumatra as high-risk. Indonesia has the fourth largest population in the world and the tenth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity. It is a significant producer and market for textiles and apparel in its own right, and an exclusionary approach will not be conducive to the advancement of a sustainable and circular value chain model that supports the global fashion industry\u2019s sustainability agenda.<\/p>\n Our company believes that forest conservation can sit side-by-side with responsible development and we have demonstrated that with transparent actions and serious investment, supported by a host of independent advisors, NGOs and certification programs. We acknowledge that sustainability is a continuing process of improvement and that challenges remain particularly in third party supply which we\u2019re working hard to address and welcome inputs from stakeholders. However, we also have a track record of progress in sustainable forest management, based on which we encourage a critical examination of the claims made by Canopy, and we offer the following evidence:<\/p>\n The most recent audit of APRIL\u2019s implementation of its sustainability policy was completed by KPMG PRI Canada in APRIL 2019 and the report will be published in July. Meantime, the 2018 audit report, which concludes that all key commitments have been generally upheld, is publicly available.[8]<\/sup><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n We remain keen to engage in a constructive dialogue with Canopy, and to work with all other stakeholders and industry players in shaping a vision for sustainable viscose that supports global climate and development goals in a balanced and inclusive manner.<\/p>\n [1]<\/sup> See: Sustainable Forest Management Policy 2.0<\/a>, Section I and II At its recent Canopy Summit in China, Canopy reissued the results of its 2018 Hot Button report which we find as misrepresenting APRIL as a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[38,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-april-dialog","8":"category-stakeholder-engagement"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12792,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12283\/revisions\/12792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/april.hellopomelo.space\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\n[2]<\/sup> \u2018Report on APRIL Group\u2019s Implementation of Sustainable Forest Management Policy 2.0<\/a>,\u2019 KPMG Performance Registrar Inc., July 2018
\n[3]<\/sup> See: \u2018Report on APRIL Group\u2019s Implementation of Sustainable Forest Management Policy 2.0<\/a>,\u2019 pp.17-26.
\n[4]<\/sup> \u2018Empowering Development: APRIL Sustainability Report, 2017<\/a>,\u2019p.6.
\n[5]<\/sup> \u2018Empowering Development: APRIL Sustainability Report, 2017<\/a>,\u2019p.6.
\n[6]<\/sup> \u2018Empowering Development: APRIL Sustainability Report, 2017<\/a>,\u2019p.17.
\n[7]<\/sup> See: APRIL Sustainability Dashboard, \u2018About IPEWG\u2019<\/a>
\n[8]<\/sup> \u2018Report on APRIL Group\u2019s Implementation of Sustainable Forest Management Policy 2.0<\/a>,\u2019 KPMG Performance Registrar Inc., July 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"