The Issues: Water

Water is the foundation of all life, and yet global supplies of fresh water are being used up at an alarming rate. The fashion industry relies heavily on water for its own survi...

The Issues: Waste

Despite the well-aired public mantra of ‘reduce, re-use, recycle’, it’s estimated that the fashion industry creates around 13 kilograms of fashion waste for every person o...

The Issues: Pollution

With more than 100 billion items of clothing and 14 billion pairs of shoes sold in 2016, all requiring often long and complex production processes and heavy use of energy, there...

The Issues: Energy

To reach the Paris Climate Agreement target of holding planetary temperatures at just 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, the global community must achieve zero carbon emis...

The Issues: Chemicals

Around 8,000 synthetic chemicals are used in the fashion, textile and footwear industry to turn raw materials into final products. Not only do these chemicals pose health hazard...

Fashion's Key Environmental Issues

Waste More than 100 billion items of clothing and 14 billion pairs of shoes were sold in 2016 -  that’s a lo...

Are Sustainable Hangers All They’re Cracked Up To Be?

The humble hanger has been billed as the ‘plastic straw of the fashion industry’ by designer Roland Mouret. CO takes a look at the alternatives and asks are they all that they ...

Guide: How To Develop A Corporate Biodiversity Strategy

CO provides an overview of the new Kering, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and Biodiversify step-by-step guide on how businesses can create a corporate biodiversi...

Op-Ed: Why It Is Critical To Protect Biodiversity Post Covid-19

Post-Covid-19, restoring nature will be of utmost importance, argues Dr Gemma Cranston, Director, Business and Nature at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. ...

DRAFT: Kering’s Sustainable Cashmere Project: A Profitable Collaboration

Led by Kering along with the Wildlife Conservation Society, Rio Tinto and with collaboration from Stanford University and NASA, this project is redefining sustainable cashmere prod...

DRAFT: The Must-Read List of Biodiversity Resources

The CO Biodiversity Hub is packed full of useful information but there are other leading biodiversity resource hubs and reports that are also worth checking out. We take a look at ...

Connecting The Dots Between Fashion, Farms & Biodiversity

Dr Katrina ole-MoiYoi, sustainable sourcing specialist at Kering talks about the role of fashion in biodiversity loss and what Kering is doing to bring about transformative change ...