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Widespread Inaction on Sustainability Eclipses Progress at Fashion’s Biggest Companies

Efforts to transform the fashion industry in line with global ambitions to curb climate change and establish more responsible business practices by 2030 have yet to gain sufficient momentum, The BoF Sustainability Index 2022 finds.

Retail

Is This the Beginning of the End for Free Returns?

For much of the last two decades, online retailers have competed to offer cheaper, more convenient shopping experiences. What happens when one of the world’s biggest apparel sellers bucks the trend?

Sustainability

The Debrief: Fashion’s Greenwashing Problem

In a sea of unsubstantiated claims about sustainability, BoF’s Sarah Kent explains why it's so hard to measure impact, and what sort of regulation could be coming for fashion.

Sustainability

Higg Raises $50 Million With Eye on Expansion to New Categories

The software provider has already built a factory database with more than 30,000 sites, most of them serving the apparel industry and almost half of them in China.

China

China Aims to Recycle 25% of Textile Waste By 2025

As well as recycling a quarter of the 22 million tonnes of textile waste accrued each year, the country is looking to produce two million tonnes of recycled fibre annually within the next three years.

Sustainability

Only Severe Emissions Cuts Will Avoid Climate Extremes, UN IPCC Report Warns

Drastic cuts to fossil fuel use and growing forests are just some of the actions needed in this decade to contain global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures, a major report by the UN climate science agency said Monday.

Sustainability

Apparel Among Worst Performing Sectors on Climate Disclosure, CDP Says

Just 1 percent of companies who submit climate change-related data to nonprofit environmental disclosure platform CDP provide investors with the information they need to assess whether they have a credible plan for the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Sustainability

Masterclass | Can a Materials Revolution Make Fashion More Sustainable?

Understand how the industry can change materials to lessen environmental impact.

Sustainability

Global Warming Is Outrunning Efforts to Protect Human Life, Scientists Warn

The report, released Monday by the world’s top climate scientists, warns of a growing mismatch between rising temperatures and slow, fragmented efforts to adapt, leaving little time for catching up before “a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity” is sealed shut.

Sustainability

How Can Fashion Become Truly Circular?

On this week’s episode of The BoF Podcast, Dame Ellen MacArthur explains how the fashion industry can move toward a waste-free future.

Retail

Saving Fashion an Arm and a Leg (and Some Torsos Too)

Mannequin Madness is a company that salvages 60 tons of plastic and fibreglass figurines every year, highlighting an oft-overlooked area of sustainability in the industry.

Sustainability

Understanding the Power of Mycelium and the Mushroom Movement

An oft-overlooked natural asset, mushrooms are not just infiltrating the fashion industry, but also have the potential to unlock new ways of thinking and healing.

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