This week, New York played host to one of the world’s largest climate confabs, but there was little visible presence from fashion’s biggest companies. If the industry doesn’t pull up a seat at the table, it risks getting left behind.

The next two years will be a critical test of whether the industry can translate pockets of progress into real change.

How to best spend the large sums it will take to cut the fashion industry’s carbon emissions? The Apparel Impact Institute is launching a pre-vetted portfolio of climate solutions in an effort to better direct investment.

From activists taking brands to task over corporate greenwashing to the finance gap and antitrust challenges, here’s what fashion leaders need to know from the UN’s high-stakes climate summit.

The brands are among the lead donors to a new fund, which is designed to de-risk and scale high-impact projects so they can attract up to $2 billion in more conventional financing.

The UN Fashion Charter upgraded its targets to drastically slash emissions by the end of the decade and added LVMH as a signatory.

The biggest sources of emissions are hidden deep in the industry’s supply chain. Here’s how some brands and activists are looking to fix that.

In the midst of the pandemic, brands are continuing to make big, long-term commitments to environmental and social goals, but with money tight, progress is likely to be fraught.