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Fashion on climate
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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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Trove’s CEO on the power of used-goods platforms
Will fashion resale become even bigger than fashion retail?
Anna Granskog, Miriam Lobis, and Karl-Hendrik Magnus discuss circular business models and the “end of ownership” in fashion. Read the transcript
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Get ready for a fashion revolution.
Trends
Very low
Moderate
Very high
Past 5 years
Next 5–10 years
Impact
E-commerce everywhere
Changing consumer preferences
FMCG and retail-
margin compression
1
Sustainability
Digitalization/
Internet of Things
Fast-moving consumer goods.
1
H&M Group’s sustainability manager on circularity and digitization
Current
pace 2,104
of the way to
1.5ºC target
more than
current pace
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
No further action 2,740
Target¹
with 1.5ºC pathway
1,100
Vestiaire’s CEO on shifting consumer mindsets
