Climate Change
The Best of BoF 2024: Fashion’s Sustainability Pullback
This year offered up a jarring reality check for players seeking to improve the industry’s environmental and social impact, with brands deprioritising sustainability efforts even as the risks of inaction have become more apparent.
The Best of BoF 2024: Fashion’s Sustainability Pullback
This year offered up a jarring reality check for players seeking to improve the industry’s environmental and social impact, with brands deprioritising sustainability efforts even as the risks of inaction have become more apparent.
Sustainability: The Case for Collective Action
A fragmented fashion industry needs to cooperate in order to avoid falling further behind on decarbonisation efforts, according to the BoF-McKinsey State of Fashion 2025.
Sustainability: The Case for Collective Action
A fragmented fashion industry needs to cooperate in order to avoid falling further behind on decarbonisation efforts, according to the BoF-McKinsey State of Fashion 2025.
Why Fashion Isn’t Making Climate Progress and What Needs to Change
Big brands are focused on buzzy, marketable ‘solutions’ and face little accountability for failing to deliver on decarbonisation targets, but there are ways to unlock more effective action, writes Kenneth P. Pucker.
Why Fashion Isn’t Making Climate Progress and What Needs to Change
Big brands are focused on buzzy, marketable ‘solutions’ and face little accountability for failing to deliver on decarbonisation targets, but there are ways to unlock more effective action, writes Kenneth P. Pucker.
What Will Happen to Fashion If the World Misses Its Climate Targets?
This year, average global temperatures surpassed 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. With action increasingly uncertain after a fractious UN climate summit, fashion is facing risks from overheated factories to consumer volatility.
What Will Happen to Fashion If the World Misses Its Climate Targets?
This year, average global temperatures surpassed 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels for the first time. With action increasingly uncertain after a fractious UN climate summit, fashion is facing risks from overheated factories to consumer volatility.
Fashion Faces Big Climate Questions Ahead of COP 29
The UN’s annual COP climate change conference kicking off in Baku, Azerbaijan next week comes at a precarious moment for the industry’s environmental efforts.
Fashion Faces Big Climate Questions Ahead of COP 29
The UN’s annual COP climate change conference kicking off in Baku, Azerbaijan next week comes at a precarious moment for the industry’s environmental efforts.
A Fashion Exec’s Guide to the UN’s Nature Summit
Efforts to protect and restore nature are becoming a more important part of the fashion industry’s climate conversation.
A Fashion Exec’s Guide to the UN’s Nature Summit
Efforts to protect and restore nature are becoming a more important part of the fashion industry’s climate conversation.
Fashion’s Plastic Addiction in Four Charts
Cheap and versatile polyester has underpinned both the fashion industry’s growth and its worsening environmental footprint. Efforts to switch to recycled fibre are stalled, new data show.
Fashion’s Plastic Addiction in Four Charts
Cheap and versatile polyester has underpinned both the fashion industry’s growth and its worsening environmental footprint. Efforts to switch to recycled fibre are stalled, new data show.
Can Fashion Get Past the Climate Blah Blah Blah?
This week, New York hosted the “unofficial climate summit of the year.” But the effort to move the needle on climate action feels as gridlocked as the traffic in midtown Manhattan.
Can Fashion Get Past the Climate Blah Blah Blah?
This week, New York hosted the “unofficial climate summit of the year.” But the effort to move the needle on climate action feels as gridlocked as the traffic in midtown Manhattan.
Shein: Fashion’s Biggest Polluter in Four Charts
The ultra-fast-fashion giant’s planet-warming emissions have nearly tripled in the last three years as its growth far outpaced other major fashion companies. In Shein's latest sustainability report, CEO Sky Xu says tackling emissions is “particularly critical."
Shein: Fashion’s Biggest Polluter in Four Charts
The ultra-fast-fashion giant’s planet-warming emissions have nearly tripled in the last three years as its growth far outpaced other major fashion companies. In Shein's latest sustainability report, CEO Sky Xu says tackling emissions is “particularly critical."
Shein Reveals Child Labour Cases as It Steps Up Supplier Audits
The company said both cases had been “resolved swiftly,” with remediation steps including ending underage employees’ contracts, arranging medical checkups, and facilitating repatriation to parents or guardians as necessary.
Shein Reveals Child Labour Cases as It Steps Up Supplier Audits
The company said both cases had been “resolved swiftly,” with remediation steps including ending underage employees’ contracts, arranging medical checkups, and facilitating repatriation to parents or guardians as necessary.
Beware Fashion’s Sustainability Retreat
Financial and political volatility are having a chilling effect on the industry’s environmental efforts. But failure to act now will bring bigger risks in the future, writes Kenneth P. Pucker.
Beware Fashion’s Sustainability Retreat
Financial and political volatility are having a chilling effect on the industry’s environmental efforts. But failure to act now will bring bigger risks in the future, writes Kenneth P. Pucker.
Why Hotter Weather Matters for Fashion
Scientists say it’s increasingly likely 2024 will be the world’s hottest year on record, with rising temperatures carrying big implications from shopping malls to supply chains.
Why Hotter Weather Matters for Fashion
Scientists say it’s increasingly likely 2024 will be the world’s hottest year on record, with rising temperatures carrying big implications from shopping malls to supply chains.