The Fashion Pact

Transparency is one of the biggest challenges in fashion. For example, many brands don’t know exactly where their leather comes from, making it impossible to work effectively with suppliers and farmers to drive improvements. So we collaborated with Textile Exchange to support the Leather Impact Accelerator and give members practical tools to tackle important issues such as deforestation, as well as develop financial incentives to encourage and reward good practice. The Leather Impact Accelerator is part of the Transforming the Fashion Sector with Nature project, funded by the Global Environment Facility and co-executed with Conservation International. Here’s how it works: https://bit.ly/4fFegcr #NaturePositive #Climate #SupplyChain #Transparency #Fashion #SustainableFashion

Our Co-Chair Paul Polman is not known for holding back when it comes to our role as leaders in driving change – not just on #EarthOvershootDay. This was his message to the fashion industry in our latest progress update: “It’s Earth Overshoot Day – that’s the day we use up more resources than the planet can replenish. After that date, each day, we are literally stealing from future generations. “Our linear and extractive model – of ‘take, make, waste’ – is simply not designed for a world population of 8 billion people or more. Every industry is affected, creating enormous negative externalities that increasingly show up, including in a company’s own bottom line. “After all, there is no business on a dead planet. The cost of not addressing these issues is bigger than the cost of action, and the more forward-thinking companies can see this presents not only risk, but an enormous business opportunity.” Read his full message in our latest progress update https://bit.ly/4bgrBoq #SustainableFashion #EarthOvershootDay2024 #Leadership #Collaboration

When it comes to tipping points, the climate and nature conversations are often focused on the threats of irreversible damage. But tipping points can also drive positive actions. At #TheFashionPact our work looks at how we can leverage collective action to drive these positive tipping points. For example, our CVPPA – the biggest collective renewable energy power purchasing agreement in fashion – is designed to not only enable energy transition for participants, but also the creation of more renewable energy across the European grid for everyone. As the University of Exeter found in their Global Tipping Points report: “Many areas of society have the potential to be ‘tipped’, including politics, social norms and mindsets. But these opportunities are not realised on their own. Concerted and coordinated action is usually needed to create the enabling conditions for triggering positive tipping points. Once near a tipping point, it may even be triggered by relatively small groups with targeted action. Appropriate governance can enable this process and is required to equitably manage its knock- on effects, so that all parts of society can engage with and benefit from tipping point opportunities.” #TippingPoints #ClimateAction #RenewableEnergy #Renewables #SustainableFashion #Fashion https://bit.ly/3xRMQzi

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In this short interview with Peter Bunce from Indigo and Laila Petrie from 2050.cloud, our Lower Impact Materials Project Manager Natalie Della Valle discusses the role that CEO leadership played in building Unlock – a programme developed to address barriers to decarbonising cotton and raw materials production and increase adoption of lower climate impact and regenerative farming practices. Learn more about the Unlock Programme: https://www.unlock.ag/ #SustainableFashion #NaturePositive #NetZero #Fashion #TheFashionPact

A collective shift to renewable energy is not a choice – it is a necessity. And the only way to achieve the transition is to work with each other and involve the whole fashion industry. Working with 12 brands of different sizes from around the world – with support from Guidehouse, 2050.cloud, and Baker McKenzie – we launched the CVPPA, the fashion industry’s largest collective renewable energy purchasing agreement. This pioneering agreement not only secures long-term affordable access to renewable energy for the participants, it invests in the creation of more renewables across Europe's grid, accelerating the journey to net-zero. In this exclusive micro-documentary we speak with participating sustainability leads, from some of the world’s best-known brands, to explore how they worked together to help deliver this landmark deal – overcoming technical, financial, and capacity challenges they could not do alone. Pamela Bussi Fulvio Benetti Davide Triacca Lorenzo Centi Andrea Podesta Jessie Wasser Michela Angiolillo Eva von Alvensleben Kristen Nuttall #Collaboration #Innovation #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #SustainableFashion #Fashion #ClimateChange #CVPPA

"To transform industries and markets we need courageous, collective action.  The fashion industry has a huge opportunity to address its carbon emissions, plastic pollution, the unsustainable sourcing of materials, and the social standards all too often lacking across its value chain." As this report sets out, we are starting to see the type of collaborative effort that leads to real impact. The challenge now is to build on this progress to accelerate action and scale the benefits. Read our Co-Chair Paul Polman’s full message to the industry in our report, An Update on Progress https://bit.ly/4bgrBoq #Climate #Biodiversity #Fashion #SustainableFashion #ClimateAction #Sustainability #TheFashionPact

Our focus is to achieve together what cannot be done alone. That is why we bring together leaders from across the fashion value chain to focus on systemic challenges such as climate change, nature loss, and ocean health. Our latest update report shows growth in the number of our members not merely talking about these issues, but putting in place robust and science driven targets. It also shows how we can work together to go further and faster than any of us could do alone. https://bit.ly/4bgrBoq #Climate #Biodiversity #Fashion #SustainableFashion #ClimateAction #Sustainability #TheFashionPact

To learn from the past and look to the future. That was the mission when we created this latest update on our progress. As this report shows – with our members – we have taken important steps towards a net-zero and nature-positive fashion industry, but urgency and ambition demand we now go further and faster. Our commitment to collective action and bold CEO leadership is more important than ever as we work to overcome the barriers to progress. Read the report here https://bit.ly/4bgrBoq #Climate #Biodiversity #Fashion #SustainableFashion #ClimateAction #Sustainability #TheFashionPact

If you’re looking for a quick primer on all the updates impacting the fashion industry, look no further than the latest Quarterly Briefing from our partners at the Fashion Conveners, a global collaboration of non-profit alliances working individually and collectively to accelerate positive action in the fashion industry.   In this Quarterly Briefing, policy experts unpack the latest developments in the sustainability regulatory landscape and shed light on what brands can do now to prepare.   Check it out here - https://bit.ly/3Vwj4I2   Our fellow members include: Apparel Impact Institute Cascale Global Fashion Agenda Fashion for Good Fashion Makes Change Policy Hub Textile Exchange ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme   #FashionConveners #SustainableFashion #SustainableTextiles #NonProfits #Collaboration