Our time. Our future.
We’re committed to powering exploration and testing the outer limits of performance while helping to support the natural ecosystems our business—and the future—depends on.
1. Materials
We aim for our top five highest greenhouse gas emissions materials to be recycled, responsibly-sourced renewable* and/or grown using regenerative agriculture practices across all of our product categories by 2030.
2. Supplier Engagement
We’re committed to reducing our product impacts by partnering with suppliers on reducing the greenhouse gas emissions intensity per product we produce by 50% by 2030.
3. Circularity
Circularity means keeping resources, like used products or fabric scraps, in use at the highest value possible. By revolutionizing our materials, processes and supply chain through this lens, we can work together to give old gear new adventures.
(*): defined as materials derived from inputs that naturally replenish in a human’s lifetime. For example, lyocell, which is derived from cellulose, with responsible forestry management certification, such as Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification.
Our web shop deliveries
While reducing our direct impact is the priority, we also purchase third-party verified carbon offsets for greenhouse gas emissions we have not been able to eliminate from our web shop deliveries. Offsets are managed through the Bonneville Environmental Foundation, funding the Envira Amazonia Project, a tropical forest conservation project in Acre, Brazil.
Our Packaging Efforts
We remain committed to reducing the use of single-use plastic in our packaging. We’ve reduced our use of virgin plastic in packaging by converting our polybags to recycled plastic. In the United Kingdom we remove and recycle polybags before online orders are shipped to consumers.
Our Lens on the Future
The North Face Presents: Groundwork: Building Community Through Regeneratively Sourced Natural Rubber
One farmer transforms her land from a rubber monoculture to a diverse rubber forest garden, helping to lead a shift to regenerative agroforestry methods.
The North Face Presents: Beyond the Summit
The North Face athlete Kit DesLauriers spent two weeks traversing the Arctic on skis, exploring the diminishing snowpack in one of the most pristine wilderness areas in the world.
The North Face Presents: Walking Two Worlds
Fueled by love and responsibility for the land, Quannah Chasinghorse and her mother Jody Potts-Joseph are taking a stand to defend their sacred homelands in the Arctic.
Give Gear a Second Chance
Repair. Refurbish. Recycle. The North Face Renewed™ gives your hard-worn favorites a second life to keep gear in the wild (and out of the landfill).