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Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Agenda-setting intelligence, analysis and advice for the global fashion community.
Working with sustainability consultancy Quantis, the three online fashion retailers will offer a free service to help brands they stock measure greenhouse emissions, set reduction targets and submit them to the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for approval.
The project launches as a pilot with a select number of brands in autumn this year, becoming available to all eligible brands in 2023. It comes amid a time crunch for fashion companies to make good on their climate commitments and reduce emissions in key parts of their businesses and supply chains. By 2025, both Zalando and About You aim to have have 90 percent of brand partners and suppliers (by emissions) set approved science-based targets, while Yoox Net-a-Porter-owner Richemont has committed to do the same for 20 percent of suppliers.
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What Will It Take for Fashion to Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
The industry needs to halve its emissions by the end of the decade to meet global climate goals.
Fashion’s biggest sustainable cotton certifier said it found no evidence of non-compliance at farms covered by its standard, but acknowledged weaknesses in its monitoring approach.
As they move to protect their intellectual property, big brands are coming into conflict with a growing class of up-and-coming designers working with refashioned designer gear.
The industry needs to ditch its reliance on fossil-fuel-based materials like polyester in order to meet climate targets, according to a new report from Textile Exchange.
Cotton linked to environmental and human rights abuses in Brazil is leaking into the supply chains of major fashion brands, a new investigation has found, prompting Zara-owner Inditex to send a scathing rebuke to the industry’s biggest sustainable cotton certifier.