Everlane – Nicole Clenney – 2025

Summary

Through strategic collaboration with key stakeholders, Nicole Clenney strengthened Everlane’s supply chain climate strategy, focusing on high-impact opportunities to drive sustainability progress. She developed systems to improve visibility into environmental performance, combining emissions analysis with water and chemical management insights to create a comprehensive view of supplier sustainability. These efforts built a strong foundation for targeted engagement and measurable progress toward Everlane’s near and long-term sustainability goals.

Goals

Everlane, committed to ambitious sustainability targets including reducing product-level greenhouse gas emissions by over 50% by 2030, achieving net-zero by 2050, minimizing natural resource consumption, and prioritizing safer chemistry had already made significant progress through measures within its direct control. Reaching the next stage of progress required shifting focus to upstream Scope 3 emissions and broader supplier practices, where complex supply chain impacts require targeted interventions and strong partnerships. Nicole was appointed to develop the visibility, prioritization, and engagement strategies needed to address climate, water, and chemical performance.

Solutions

Nicole began with a landscape assessment of supplier environmental data to evaluate quality, completeness, and existing gaps. She then developed a centralized Supplier Environmental Performance Tracker, consolidating and enhancing information from multiple sources, including Higg Facility Environmental Module data, to monitor performance across Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers. Using absolute emissions data, she calculated allocated emissions and developed a prioritization framework that ranked suppliers by their potential risk to operations, reputation, and compliance, enabling Everlane to focus remediation efforts on the highest-priority facilities first. This analysis incorporated fuel source insights, spend, production volume, water use profiles, and chemical management scores, creating a multi-dimensional view of supplier performance. She also created standardized procedures for supplier outreach and data management, embedding accuracy and accountability into ongoing operations.

Potential Impact

The systems, prioritization framework, and integrated analysis Nicole delivered provide Everlane with a durable method for directing sustainability efforts where they will have the greatest impact. By improving environmental data quality, filling gaps, and combining insights on emissions, water use, and chemical management into a single decision-making tool, her work enables Everlane to engage high-impact suppliers in advancing its environmental goals. This foundation positions Everlane to make faster, more targeted progress across its global supply chain.