Fashion industry's sustainability push isn't keeping up with growth

Fashion industry's sustainability push isn't keeping up with growth

Sector's carbon emissions more than those of flights and shipping combined

Paris

THE fashion industry's progress on reducing its environmental impact is not moving fast enough to counteract its rapid growth, according to a report by consultancy BCG and sustainable fashion groups.

Fashion brands improved their environmental and social impact in 2018, but progress was slower than in the previous year, according to the report. It measured brands' efforts to make and implement various commitments such as reducing carbon emissions and water use, boosting the use of sustainable materials, and paying fairer wages.

The worldwide apparel and footwear market's expected growth - pegged at around 5 per cent a year till 2030 by Euromonitor analysts - risks "exerting an unprecedented strain on planetary resources" by raising annual production of fashion to more than 100 million tonnes, the report said.

"The industry really needs to pick up the pace. Brands are improving at a slower rate, and at the same time we're seeing a huge production increase," said Morten Lehmann, chief sustainability officer of the Global Fashion Agenda, one of the groups sponsoring the report.

Source: businesstimes.com.sg
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