• 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 no mystery.

    That is, in part, because there is a cottage industry of consultants advising brands on decarbonisation strategies. As but one high-profile example, trade group Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) and McKinsey co-authored a report in 2020 laying out a comprehensive roadmap to cut fashion greenhouse gas emissions by just over 50 percent by 2030. The analysis shows that more than half the recommended actions will also result in cost savings.

    And yet, the industry’s greenhouse gas emissions continue to trend in precisely the opposite direction.

     

    https://www.businessoffashion.com/opinions/sustainability/fashion-brands-curb-climate-impact-why-not-inaction/

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  • What Big Brands’ Sustainability Reports Won’t Tell You

    For much of the last decade, advocates for sustainable businesses have argued that reporting on ESG measures would lead to a sustainable future. It hasn’t happened, writes Kenneth Pucker.

    https://www.businessoffashion.com/opinions/sustainability/fashion-sustanability-reporting-wont-tell-you-esg/?utm_source=newsletter_dailydigest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily_Digest_220823&utm_content=intro

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  • Why Mushroom Leather (and Other New Materials) Are Struggling to Scale

    Late last month, leading materials start-up Bolt threads said it had paused operations for its leather alternative Mylo. The company’s struggle to raise funds points to deeper challenges for the sector, writes Kenneth Pucker.

     

    https://www.businessoffashion.com/opinions/sustainability/next-generation-materials-innovation-mylo-bolt-threads-mushroom-leather/?utm_source=newsletter_dailydigest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily_Digest_130723&utm_term=NAD7JRM5XRE2BA7JCY7ZD5EOKQ&utm_content=top_story_2_title

     

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  • Circularity Is a Fashionable Fantasy

    The buzzy concept is a chimaera that distracts from the root cause of fashion’s worsening environmental impact: overconsumption, argues Kenneth Pucker

     

     

     

     

     

    https://www.businessoffashion.com/opinions/sustainability/op-ed-circularity-is-a-fashionable-fantasy/?utm_source=newsletter_dailydigest&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily_Digest_260523&utm_term=3PNLIJGNHNEHBCFER4M45JG3V4&utm_content=top_story_3_title

     

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