Explore the Higg FEM 2025 Updates on Worldly

Article key points: 

• The Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM) 2025 is now live, bringing enhanced flexibility, user guidance, and data insights.
• The new Worldly Assistant, an AI-powered in-platform guide, offers instant access to trusted resources like How to Higg, Worldly Knowledge Base, and ZDHC documentation.
• The Worldly Insights Hub converts Higg FEM data into actionable insights with advanced analytics for benchmarking and tracking progress. 
• The new Worldly Collaboration Suite replaces the Adoption Tool, helping brands and suppliers communicate more effectively and manage engagement campaigns with multilingual support.
• The April 30 posting date is now recommended, not required, offering more flexibility for facilities worldwide to complete their assessments.

Cascale’s Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM) 2025 is now live! This year’s Higg FEM comes with updates designed to make the assessment experience more flexible, intuitive, and actionable for facilities around the world—and more valuable to the brands, retailers, and manufacturers that rely on that assessment data. 

New on the Worldly platform for the Higg 2025 FEM

Most of what you know and expect from the Higg FEM each year remains the same for 2025. However, each year, Cascale and Worldly collaborate to refine both the Higg FEM framework and the technology platform that powers it, ensuring the tool evolves alongside member and stakeholder feedback, industry best practices, and advances in sustainability data management. The 2025 update continues that mission by helping manufacturers, suppliers, brands, and retailers better measure and improve their environmental performance, reduce supply chain risk, and make better, more data-driven decisions.

Here are the top three updates you’ll see in the Worldly platform with the Higg FEM 2025: 

1. Worldly Assistant: your AI-powered in-platform guide

New for 2025, the Worldly Assistant brings instant, reliable guidance when and where users need it: inside the platform itself.

The AI assistant is trained on all key resources, including the How to Higg guide, Worldly Knowledge Base, support articles, and even ZDHC documentation, to provide quick, accurate answers to help facilities complete and verify their Higg FEM with confidence.

Here’s how the Worldly Assistant can help you:

• Facilities can complete assessments faster and reduce errors.
• Verifying bodies can quickly reference official guidance.
• Brands gain clarity on expectations and verification processes.

No more digging through long PDFs or waiting for responses! The Worldly Assistant makes expert support accessible, instantly, and available at every step.

2. Worldly Insights Hub: turning data into action

The new Worldly Insights Hub, which launched in summer 2025, transforms Higg FEM data into meaningful insights that drive real-world impact. Available to all manufacturer, facility, and brand customers, the Insights Hub is an analytics dashboard that helps users visualize progress and identify opportunities for improvement.

With the Insights Hub, users can:

• Analyze and report on progress against KPIs for all suppliers, or a specific region, segment or type of facility.
• Benchmark your supply chain performance against peers.
• Plan your supplier engagement and capacity-building based on opportunities or hotspots.
• Review metrics with suppliers with a complete view of their performance in one place.

These new analytics features make it easier for companies to not only complete the Higg FEM, but to use the data strategically for decision making, planning, and reporting.

3. Worldly Collaboration Suite: stronger supplier engagement

Also new for 2025, the Worldly Collaboration Suite introduces supplier relationship management tools that simplify communication and improve data quality and completeness.

The Worldly Collaboration Suite helps brands, manufacturers, and retailers engage more effectively with their suppliers—removing friction from the assessment process and ensuring more consistent, higher-quality data across the supply chain. This also benefits suppliers who rely on clear communication and guidance on their brand customers’ requirements and expectations throughout their assessment cycle. 

The Worldly Collaboration Suite replaces the Adoption Tool customers have had access to in the past and brings supplier engagement best practices based on Worldly’s most successful customers to everyone. 

What this means for you

• Segments: Create customized segments to organize facilities based on their attributes.
• Campaigns: Build automated, recurring, and targeted email communications to specific facility groups.
• Unified Supplier Management: See the full picture in one holistic view.

The Higg FEM 2025 is now more flexible than ever

The Higg FEM undergoes an annual update to incorporate feedback from Cascale’s Higg FEM Strategic Council, Cascale members, and stakeholders, ensuring the tool evolves with real-world needs while driving measurable impact. For Higg FEM 2025, greater flexibility is introduced around the posting cadence. Facilities that post their self-assessments throughout the year now have the option to un-post and re-post their module within 60 days of the initial posting. This gives teams more time to make adjustments or corrections, while ensuring that Higg FEMs posted after this date remain equally valuable. 

For a complete list of Higg FEM 2025 updates, Cascale members and Higg FEM users can access the Higg FEM 2025 How to Higg Guide.

Get started with the Higg FEM 2025 today

The time to start engaging your suppliers is now.  

The Higg FEM 2025 is now live on the Worldly platform. Facilities can begin their assessments anytime and can begin posting after January 1st, 2026. While the April 30 deadline is no longer required, it’s still a recommended industry-wide standard that will provide facilities ample time to complete their assessment and brands and retailers the time they need to incorporate 2025 results into their reporting and business plans for the coming year.  

If you’re ready to get started: 

Facilities: Get started in the Worldly platform today 

Brands, retailers, and manufacturers: Reach out to your Worldly account team to begin your supplier outreach today