Rethinking Fashion’s Climate Strategy: Towards a Collective Approach
Whether you’re head of sales for a manufacturing company, a buyer for a global brand or retailer, or a sustainability professional, the evolving legislative landscape will affect everyone. By attending, you'll not only expand your understanding of the evolving legislative landscape but also make connections that drive real-world change. Let’s come toScience–Based Targets to reduce emissions in line with the Paris Agreement, and regulators in the EU and the US are pushing the private sector to do the same. On its face, this combination of ambitious target-setting and tough regulation marks an incredible leap from empty promises towards climate action.
And yet, there is a worrying disconnect between Science Based Targets and suppliers' own needs, goals, and abilities. Suppliers have flagged a need to urgently rethink funding and leadership strategies that currently back the transition to a net zero future in fashion. Without a pivot to these three questions–who does how much? Who pays? And who or what drives change?–the potential to meet our climate goals by decade’s end will fade from view.
This session will offer a sneak preview of Transformers Foundation’s soon-to-be-released deep dive report on decarbonization and a candid conversation between key industry stakeholders about where we might go from here - what could “supplier-led, brand-supported climate action” look like in practice?
