The fashion industry is producing twice as many emissions as permitted if it is to meet UN climate targets in less than eight years, and must urgently reform its recycling and waste practices as well as pay systems, a report from a non-profit industry group has found.
The sector is falling well short of the UN sustainability goals for 2030 that more than 150 brands have signed up to, concludes the Global Fashion Agenda, a wide coalition that includes the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and trade body Textile Exchange.
While there was progress in resource stewardship, work environments and material choices, the industry was behind on wage systems and so-called circularity, based on anonymised data collected by the Higg industry reporting tool.