Cop27 has finally started tackling the messy business of decreasing the fashion industry’s impact.
, few considered that attention would turn so quickly to the fashion industry.
“Every UK household, as a result of its clothing consumption, produces the equivalent emissions of driving a modern car for 6,000 miles”Among the events hosted to discuss the fashion industry were a trio of talks organised by the non-profit organisation Global Fashion Agenda , formerly the Copenhagen Fashion Summit.
“Innovative low-carbon solutions play a vital role to help us reduce our impact on climate and protect forests, so no ancient and endangered forests are put at risk to make fashion”, Inditex and Kering, among many others, have vowed to purchase over half a million tonnes of low-carbon, low-footprint alternative fibres for fashion textiles and paper packaging.
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