The 2026 Cascale memberships offer organizations the support they need in a complex sustainability landscape.
by Erlinda Lee
In the age of artificial intelligence, geopolitical instability, and tariff turbulence, sustainability has never been more challenging to get right. The rules are changing. As sustainability expectations grow and regulations evolve, the industry does not need more disconnected systems. It needs greater alignment around credible approaches, shared measurement, and common expectations.
Cascale’s origins are all about collective action. Today, we help organizations reduce duplication, improve efficiency, navigate regulatory complexity, and make more informed business decisions through common measurement, shared tools, pre-competitive industry collaboration, and shared progress on climate action and decent work.
By bringing companies together around credible frameworks and practical solutions, we help members spend less time navigating fragmentation and more time driving measurable progress across their value chains.
Our 2026 offerings address every level of sustainability ambition while giving a clear sense of ownership, flexibility, pricing transparency, and stronger alignment.
In this upcoming blog series, we’ll walk through some of these pathways in greater depth. For now, here’s what prospective members need to know.
How You Can Join Us
- At any level of sustainability knowledge, Cascale membership enables scaled industry ambitions.
- Members now have greater flexibility in how they access tools, services, and community support, with clearer choices and pricing transparency.
- With a focus on measurement, the new Associate membership offering helps members build a credible baseline and reduce duplication.
- Refined Corporate membership helps members align with the industry and accelerate progress at scale.
- Affiliate membership remains unchanged for the upcoming member cycle.
At a glance, there are three unique sustainability offerings, which were shaped in consultation with 110 Cascale members. Affiliate membership remains a dedicated pathway for nonprofit, academic, public-sector, and other non-corporate organizations to contribute expertise, perspective, and partnership to Cascale’s mission. Associate membership is designed for organizations primarily focused on measurement, reporting, and building a credible sustainability baseline.
Corporate membership is designed for organizations ready to go further — beyond measurement — and actively engage with the industry to help shape shared priorities and drive collective progress, while strengthening owned sustainability performance and business resilience. Across all pathways, Cascale membership brings the industry together to set shared priorities and turn alignment into measurable progress.
Like-minded Community
No matter what stage you are at in your sustainability journey, Cascale membership offers a like-minded community and a place to pre-competitively scale impact. Cascale’s role in stewarding and governing the Higg Index framework and methodology remains, as does our commitment to member guidance, value, pricing transparency, and community. That’s why we went straight to the source when redesigning these offerings (thank you to all who supported this transformation).
These new plans further emphasize member and prospective member needs, so that together we can drive systems change in consumer goods. You don’t have to do it alone. By working through common frameworks and pre-competitive collaboration, you can help reduce duplication, strengthen consistency, and move the industry from fragmented action toward shared progress.
Guidance Along the Way
For anyone curious about Cascale – no matter your sustainability ambition – we encourage you to get in touch. And for members, the May member webinar (available now on Cascale Connect) captured all of the updates, including unchanged Affiliate plans, new Associate offerings, and refined Corporate membership. As Jeremy Lardeau (our newly appointed senior vice president, industry activation and growth) shared in the webinar: many members will actually see reduced pricing this year.
That’s a reflection of the renewed flexibility, transparency, and differentiated offerings we committed to delivering to our members.
Whether organizations are establishing foundational sustainability practices or helping shape industry-wide solutions, the goal remains the same: enabling meaningful progress through shared action. No single company can transform the consumer goods industry alone, which is why Cascale membership has become an imperative.
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Erlinda Lee is Senior Director, Member Development at Cascale
