Opinion
Can Fashion Stop Climate Change?
Fashion: is it a dirty word? Although it doesn’t have the reputation of, say, the oil industry, it is making a sizeable contribution to warming the planet – the fashion industry was responsible for 1.7 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2015, according to the Pulse of the Fashion Industry Report (to put things in perspective, that’s only slightly less than Russia).
The fashion industry produced almost 5% of manmade CO2 emissions in 2015 – more than aviation and shipping combined.
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