Explore how fashion and textile businesses can identify, map, and address deforestation risks within their supply chains.

Join Canopy for an in-depth exploration of how fashion and textile businesses can identify, map, and address deforestation risks within their supply chains.

This session will provide both context and practical guidance, helping businesses understand why forests matter to the sector and how to take meaningful action to reduce risk while strengthening sustainability strategies.

The webinar will cover:

Context and background

• What deforestation is and why it matters
• The importance of protecting ancient and endangered forests
• Deforestation risks within the fashion and textiles sector
• The link between climate change and nature loss
• Reputational, compliance, and supply chain risks
• Emerging deforestation regulations and what they mean for businesses

How Canopy can help

• Key steps for developing a deforestation policy or strategy
• Mapping MMCF fibre and packaging sourcing regions
• Practical tools and resources, including:
• The Hot Button Ranking
• EcoPaper Database
• Next Gen innovators list
• ForestMapper

Practical application

• How this work links to certifications businesses may already use (e.g. FSC, PEFC)
• What credible best practice looks like beyond minimal compliance
• Case studies from fashion sector collaborations
• Examples of leading tools, standards, and approaches

Who should attend

This session will support businesses in embedding deforestation-risk-free supply chains into sustainability strategy, product decision-making, supplier engagement, and broader nature-risk management. It is ideal for business leaders, sustainability professionals, brands, retailers, and companies at any stage of their sustainability journey who are looking to future-proof their strategy in response to growing biodiversity-related risks and opportunities.

Speaker bio

Sophia Yang is an award-winning climate justice and fashion change-maker. She’s a Senior Corporate Campaigner at Canopy, collaborating with leading fashion brands on sustainable material sourcing and supply chain integration. As the Founder of Threading Change, Sophia also leads a for-youth, by-youth ethical fashion organization that champions fashion education, policy engagement, and profiling SMEs through their story map, aiming to build an equitable, youth-driven, and climate-resilient fashion industry.

Sophia’s accolades include the City of Vancouver’s Greenest City Leadership Award (2022), being named a Corporate Knights’ 2021 30 Under 30 Leader, BC Business 2025 30 Under 30 Leader, and Starfish Canada’s Top 25 Under 25 in 2017 and 2018.

Canopy company profile

Canopy is an award-winning non-profit organization focused on ensuring the survival of the world’s Ancient and Endangered Forests. Our model of change is to work with global brands and producers, some of the largest consumers of forest products, to reduce the impacts of their purchasing decisions and supply chains. Canopy has collaborated with 900+ brands and producers to adopt and implement ambitious, time-lined policy commitments to end sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests. These key actors in the supply chain have contributed their purchasing power towards the protection of nearly 17 million hectares of forests.

Only Accessible to UKFT Members.

Thewebinarwill be recorded and sent to all those who registered.

ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY 101 WEBINAR SERIES (S101)

To go alongside its Sustainability 101 Series, the UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT) is hosting a programme of webinars focused on sustainability topics such as standards, Green Claims, Greenwashing and Due Diligence. This is part of UKFT’s goal to simplify the journey towards sustainability and help companies make the right choices by providing unbiased, industry-specific guidance.