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Global Fashion Agenda names Federica Marchionni as new CEO

Global Fashion Agenda, a leadership forum for industry collaboration on fashion sustainability, has named Federica Marchionni as its new CEO. At the helm of the organisation, Marchionni will be tasked with accelerating Global Fashion Agenda’s growth, elevating its forums - which include Copenhagen Fashion Summit and CFS+ - and propelling its...

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Big fashion brands back Bangladesh recycling scheme

Over 30 fashion brands and manufacturers have joined a new initiative to collaborate on cutting down textile waste and reusing materials to create new products in Bangladesh’s garments factories. The Circular Fashion Partnership announced this week that it is bringing brands such as H&M, OVS, Marks & Spencer, Berska, Pull & Bear, C&A, Kmart...

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New Fashion on Climate report urges all industry stakeholders to play their part

A new report by Global Fashion Agenda and McKinsey & Company called Fashion on Climate (2020) addresses all stakeholders in the fashion value chain, including brands, retailers, manufacturers, citizens, investors, and policy makers to play their part in reducing emissions and align with targets set out in the Paris climate accord. In 2018 the...

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Apparel and footwear industry proposes green recovery plan for Europe

The Policy Hub, a joint effort of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry and the Global Fashion Agenda have published a green recovery plan proposal for Europe. The proposal presented to European authorities, which follows the European Commission’s recently issued recovery plan, outlines seven...

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Wastewater: fashion's grotesk sustainability problem

The water volume consumed by the fashion industry in 2017 was nearly 79 billion cubic meters, enough to fill 32 million Olympic-size swimming pools. Nearly 20 percent of global waste water is produced by the fashion industry. That figure is easily comprehensible when it is broken down into the production per garment, where 5,000 gallons of water...

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Zalando partners with Global Fashion Agenda in sustainability push

German fashion giant Zalando has announced a new partnership with Global Fashion Agenda, a leadership forum for industry collaboration on fashion sustainability. The online retailer is joining the forum as an associate partner along with TAL Apparel and VF Corporation. The partnership comes as part of Zalando’s 'do.More' sustainability strategy....

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Fashion brands have only met 21 percent of their circularity targets for 2020

Signatories of the 2020 Circular Fashion System Commitment, an initiative launched in 2017 by the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), will have to hurry up if they still want to reach all the circularity targets they committed to. GFA’s second yearly assessment of the progress made by fashion brands and retailers was published today and the results are...

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Apparel organizations call on EU policymakers to help fashion become circular

Five organizations have published a joint manifesto calling on EU policymakers to establish tools for a circular fashion system, namely Euratex (European Apparel and Textile Confederation), Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI), Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), International Apparel Federation (IAF) and Sustainable Apparel...

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Sustainability progress “has slowed” reveals new data

According to new data from the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), the pace of sustainability progress in the fashion industry has “slowed” by a third in the past year and is not moving “fast enough to counterbalance the harmful impact of the fashion industry's rapid growth”. The...

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Allbirds and Ganni join Global Fashion Agenda as associate partners

Sustainable footwear brand Allbirds and Danish ready-to-wear label Ganni have been announced as associate partners for the Global Fashion Agenda, the international forum for industry collaboration on sustainability in fashion. They’re joining G-Star Raw, Crystal International, Erdos Group, Everlane and Selfridges Group in offering feedback and...

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CEOs urged to address climate changes as global agenda

Climate change is at the front of everyone’s mind in the fashion industry. Non-profit organization Global Fashion Agenda announced its annual CEO agenda for 2019 this week, in partnership with industry leaders including Kering, the H&M Group, Nike, PVH Corp., Asos, Target, Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Li & Fung and Bestseller. Upon updating...

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Asos and PVH Corp join Global Fashion Agenda

Global Fashion Agenda, the forum for industry collaboration on sustainability in fashion, has welcomed Asos and PVH Corp as new strategic partners. They’re joining Bestseller, H&M Group, Kering, Li & Fung, Nike, Sustainable Apparel Coalition and Target in the initiative. “With the addition of ASOS and PVH, our Strategic Partner group has truly...