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Fashion on climate

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Fashion on climate

Biodiversity: The next frontier in sustainable fashion

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Biodiversity: The next frontier in sustainable fashion

Get ready for a fashion revolution.

Anna Granskog, Miriam Lobis, and Karl-Hendrik Magnus discuss circular business models and the “end of ownership” in fashion.

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The fashion industry emits about the same quantity of greenhouse gases per year as the entire economies of France, Germany, and the United Kingdom combined. By 2030, it will need to cut its emissions by about half—or else it will exceed the 1.5 degree pathway to mitigate climate change, set out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and ratified in the 2015 Paris agreement.

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Sustainable fashion: How the fashion industry can urgently act to reduce its greenhouse gas emission

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No further

action 2,740

Current

pace 2,104

of the way to

1.5ºC target

more than

current pace

Target¹

with 1.5ºC

pathway 1,100

2,106

+2% per annum

2018

2030

23%

~50%

Under the current trajectory, the fashion industry misses the 1.5ºC pathway by 50 percent and abates only emissions from incremental growth.

Emissions abatement assuming the industry decarbonization continues at current pace, million tons of CO₂ equivalent

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