Can Fashion Have a Positive Impact on the Planet?
In recent years, fashion has woken up to its need to reduce its environmental impact, from cutting down greenhouse gas emissions (an urgent task, considering the industry is responsible for between four to 10 percent of all emissions globally) to tackling issues such as deforestation and microplastics pollution.
Recently, though, focus has also turned to whether fashion can actually have a positive impact on the planet, with the likes of Burberry, Gucci-owner Kering and LVMH all launching major biodiversity initiatives to restore nature in the past year. And just this week, the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Fashion Taskforce, set up by Prince Charles, announced its Regenerative Fashion Manifesto, which outlines the need to move towards an industry that is both “climate and nature positive.”