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Can Fashion Get Past the Climate Blah Blah Blah?
Though most of the fashion world has spent this week with an eye on Milan and Paris, for those focused on sustainability, the place to …
Want to Protect Workers? Tackle Climate Change, Say Activists
For a little over a decade, activist group Fashion Revolution has galvanised consumers to ask fashion brands a simple, but loaded question: ‘Who made my …
The Battle Over How Big Businesses Should Meet Climate Targets, Explained
When companies like Kering, LVMH, Nike and Inditex set their climate targets they turned to the Science Based Targets Initiative. The world’s leading arbiter of …
Fashion’s Confounding Climate Math, Explained
Imagine you are the chief supply chain officer at a multi-billion-dollar fashion brand. Your company has set ambitious targets to reduce its planet-warming emissions. That’s …
What Will It Take to Tackle Fashion’s Climate Financing Gap?
It will cost the fashion industry an estimated $1 trillion to make the shift away from polluting practices to greener ones required to meet goals …
Is There Space for Radical Design in a Climate of Conservatism?
MILAN â The mood was sombre at Milan Fashion Week. Itâs perhaps understandable. Todayâs world is a dark place. Are clothes even relevant in such …
Climate Group Lodges Greenwashing Complaint Against Lululemon in Canada
Climate advocacy group Stand.earth has lodged a greenwashing complaint against Lululemon with Canada’s Competition Bureau. The organisation said Monday that it has asked the competition …
The BoF Podcast | Ending Climate Colonialism in Fashion
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Australians should cut clothes shopping by 74% for the climate – here are three ways to get started | Australian fashion
To combat global heating, people in wealthy countries need to stop buying so many clothes. Australians buy more cheap fashion than any other wealthy nation, …
Money, Power and Conflicts of Interest: Climate Politics Are Coming for Fashion
Last week, Vogue Arabia ran an editorial featuring climate activist Sophia Kianni drenched in slick, black slime. The strapline: “We are literally wearing oil.” The …
The Year Ahead: Why Fashion Can No Longer Ignore the Climate Crisis
For many fashion businesses, addressing climate-related risks is often a priority that is eclipsed by other challenges they deem more urgent or imminent. However, due …
Big Brands’ Slow Climate Progress Put Targets Out of Reach, Report Finds
In 2018, a group of fashion companies pledged to halve the planet-warming emissions associated with their business by 2030, launching the UN Fashion Charter for …
Advocacy Groups Lay Out Demands for Fashion at UN Climate Summit
Big fashion brands must be more transparent about their environmental impact and how they plan to reduce it, according to a list of demands published …
Anxious about the climate? These three tips from experts can help | Well actually
In recent years, the term “climate anxiety” has gone from obscure to familiar, underscoring a growing awareness of how witnessing escalating climate disasters affects our …
‘Doomed to Fail’: Suppliers Warn on Fashion’s Climate Commitments.
By 2030, many of the world’s largest fashion brands, from H&M Group to Gucci-owner Kering, have promised to halve planet-warming emissions across their supply chains, …
Brands Know How to Curb Their Climate Impact. Why Won’t They Do it?
Most of the world’s biggest fashion companies have committed to radically reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Though it’s a complex challenge, how to deliver is …
What to wear for a climate crisis
When people move to the country from the city, they need to change their wardrobes, my research on tree-changers in Australia found. The new context …
Is Fashion Sleepwalking Into the Climate Crisis?
Last month was likely the hottest humans have ever experienced. Dangerous — often deadly — temperatures have baked Europe, North America and parts of Asia …
Five ways AI could improve the world: ‘We can cure all diseases, stabilise our climate, halt poverty’ | Artificial intelligence (AI)
Recent advances such as Open AI’s GPT-4 chatbot have awakened the world to how sophisticated artificial intelligence has become and how rapidly the field is …