UNTP Implementation Status

The Fashion Brands community supports brand, retailer, and group-level participants working to make trusted sustainability information easier to exchange across fashion value chains. It is aligned with The Fashion Pact’s collaborative model, which brings fashion companies together around shared environmental priorities and practical industry action.

The Fashion Pact was launched in 2019 as a CEO-led coalition for fashion and textile companies. Its network includes many global fashion brands and groups, with work organized around collective action on climate, nature, renewable energy, lower-impact materials, lower-impact production, and circular economy approaches.

Within the UN Textiles Protocol context, this community can help brands translate sustainability commitments into interoperable digital product and supplier information. Priority areas include Digital Product Passport readiness, traceable material claims, supplier and facility identifiers, product-level evidence, due diligence reuse, and consistent communication between brands, manufacturers, certification bodies, and policy stakeholders.

Pilot Implementations

1. Brand Product Passport Readiness Pilot (2026):

   Trial brand-side product passport records for selected apparel and accessory lines, focusing on product identity, material composition, production-stage evidence, repairability information, and claim provenance.

   Open pilot brief

2. Lower-Impact Materials Evidence Pilot (2026):

   Test reusable digital evidence for preferred, recycled, regenerative, or otherwise lower-impact material claims, including links to standards, chain-of-custody data, and supplier declarations.

   Open outcome report

3. Circularity and Consumer Information Pilot (2027):

   Explore how brands can publish trusted product information for durability, care, repair, resale, take-back, and recycling pathways while preserving interoperability with regulatory and commercial data systems.

   Read case study brief

Credential Extensions

Name	Base Credential	Status
Fashion Product Passport	UNTP Product Passport	Draft
Brand Supply Chain Disclosure	UNTP Digital Traceability Event	Planned
Circularity Information Declaration	UNTP Digital Conformity Credential	Planned

Identifier Schemes

Name	Scope	IDR Status
GS1 Global Trade Item Number (GTIN)	Product	Registered
GS1 Digital Link	Product and consumer-facing data	In-progress
Global Location Number (GLN)	Brand, supplier, and facility	Registered
Open Supply Hub Facility ID	Facility	In-progress

Conformity Schemes

Name	CVC Status
Science Based Targets initiative	In-progress
Textile Exchange Standards	In-progress
ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme	In-progress

Software Systems

Name	System Type	Issuing Status
Brand product passport gateway	Product passport publishing	Planned
Supplier evidence exchange portal	Supplier and facility evidence management	Planned
Circularity information service	Repair, resale, take-back, and recycling data	Planned