Planet

Our renowned Blue Boxes and bags have a powerful legacy. That’s why we have set goals to lessen the environmental effects of Tiffany packaging by minimising material use, prioritising reuse and recycling, and selecting more sustainable materials. We continue to pursue leading sustainable packaging solutions and have committed to specific targets, including using at least 50% recycled content for client-facing pulp and paper-based packaging and collateral, and at least 80% recycled content for corrugated cardboard, by the end of 2021. We are also working to eliminate single-use plastic packaging and collateral containing plastics by 2025. Beginning in 2023, we plan to offer clients opportunities to reduce their environmental footprint through reduced packaging and smart shipping options.

In 2020, 100%* of our catalogues and marketing collateral and 100%* of our Blue Boxes and blue bags were sustainably sourced. Additionally, our Tiffany Blue Boxes and bags were made with at least 50% recycled content, and our corrugated cardboard was made of 100% recycled content.

*See the Report of Independent Accountants

Tiffany places a high priority on excellent design, including in our stores. Behind the beauty of our buildings are sustainable design elements that reduce our overall environmental impact; reduce our costs; and support employee and client wellness at retail, office, distribution and manufacturing facilities.

By 2025, it is our goal that at least 30% of our floor area (by square feet) for retail and non-retail built environments will be certified LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Silver or above, demonstrating excellence in sustainable building design and construction. To date, we have over 20 retail stores, offices and manufacturing locations certified LEED Silver, Gold or Platinum.

At our flagship store in New York, we have taken specific steps to minimise our environmental footprint, and in 2020, we began renovations that will make this store a model of our Company’s sustainability commitment.

We believe that climate action is a moral and a business imperative. Climate change impacts our employees and our clients, and we support a sustainable future for the planet on behalf of every community we reach. We are active in the movement to combat climate change and use our voice to advocate for responsible climate policy and the importance of protecting biodiversity.

Building on past efforts, in 2020, we joined with other businesses to virtually lobby the U.S. Congress for a COVID-19 recovery plan to enable the nation to rebuild sustainably. We lobbied to support public policies aimed at advancing our economy and protecting society’s most vulnerable citizens, while facilitating a net-zero emissions future.

We feel it is our responsibility to use the power of the Tiffany brand to lead powerful conversations about climate change. We speak out and raise awareness during critical moments that directly affect the planet and our communities. In 2017, we placed an ad in The New York Times urging the U.S. to not withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement. We continued advocating for U.S. climate action in the years that followed, most recently by placing another ad in The New York Times supporting the U.S. rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement. In late 2019 and early 2020, we used our voice again to highlight the connection between climate change and the devastating bushfires that decimated millions of acres of land in Australia. We placed full-page ads in two of the country’s prominent newspapers to call on the Australian government to take urgent climate action to help reduce future bushfire risk and protect the nation’s people and wildlife.

We also seek to ensure that our brand is not associated with organisations that oppose climate action. To that end, we monitor our memberships, and in 2009, we resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over our disappointment in their approach to legislation and regulatory efforts to address climate change. We screen all of our memberships against an InfluenceMap list of groups known to reject climate science or undermine responsible climate policy around the world. In 2015, we added a question about climate policy to our annual Political Spending Disclosure questionnaire, sent to major trade associations.

In some places, preserving natural beauty means protecting landscapes from mining activity. After more than 180 years in the industry, we know there are certain places where mining cannot be done without forever destroying landscapes and harming wildlife and communities. As a company that sources metals directly from mines in the United States, we believe that we have a role to play in protecting landscapes across the U.S.

Since 1995, when we opposed a proposed gold mine that would have threatened Yellowstone National Park, we have been using the power of our voice to help protect places that have a high value to the environment, the cultural traditions of Indigenous people or local economies across the United States. Over the years, we have spoken out to oppose a proposed copper and silver mining project in the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness Area near the Idaho-Montana border; and we have voiced our opposition to the proposed Pebble Mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay, home to one of the world’s greatest remaining wild salmon watersheds.

In addition to advocating for the protection of critical landscapes, we are vocal about reforming outdated U.S. legislation for the mining sector so that it better protects the public lands we all enjoy.

Our dedication to protecting the natural world lies at the heart of Tiffany culture, and since 2000, The Tiffany & Co. Foundation has supported the preservation of landscapes, seascapes and critical species.

The Tiffany & Co. Foundation’s mission is to preserve the world’s treasured seascapes and landscapes. From the Wildlife Conservation Society’s ocean conservation work in the western Pacific Ocean’s Coral Triangle to Trout Unlimited’s abandoned mine reclamation in the western United States, the Foundation has helped preserve some of nature’s most precious resources. Since 2000, The Tiffany & Co. Foundation has awarded over USD $90 million in support of the iconic landscapes and seascapes that have inspired its work.

Tiffany & Co. has also invited its clients to be a part of its philanthropic efforts while building awareness to protect threatened species. As part of our continued commitment to sustainability and conservation, Tiffany donates 100% of the profits from the Tiffany Save the Wild collection to the Wildlife Conservation Network and its innovative species funds to save endangered and vulnerable wildlife. Since its launch in 2017, we’ve donated more than USD $10 million to help protect elephants, rhinos and lions. With this sum, Tiffany helps to put an end to the illegal poaching and trafficking of these iconic species and combat the illicit ivory trade.