Nicole Rycroft

Triggered by the logging of 1500-year-old trees, activist-minded Nicole Rycroft, who can also deliver physiotherapy, decided to channel it towards protecting the world’s forests, species, and climate by founding Canopy. The passionate, solutions-driven tree-hugger ‘Cano-pal’ team today straddles four continents as it aligns to transform unsustainable supply chains and advance forest conservation and community rights. In a free-wheeling conversation, the founder and executive director shares how Canopy works with 1,000+ global brands to drive transformative action to eliminate the use of Ancient and Endangered Forests in packaging and textiles while scaling NextGen solutions, and also the route that India needs to follow to achieve its potential.

For the first time ever Canopy's Hot Button Report has awarded the coveted 'green shirt' status to three global producers—India-based Aditya Birla, Austria-based Lenzing, and China-based Tangshan Sanyou.

As the world looks for innovative solutions to reduce carbon emissions and preserve vital ecosystems, environmental NGO Canopy underscores the critical role India can play in this global shift as it has the potential to transform 100 million tonnes of agricultural residues and polyester-cotton textile waste into valuable low-carbon paper, packaging, and viscose for the global markets.

Fashion for Good has launched ‘Re-Start’, a textile recovery alliance in India, and released a toolkit designed to revalorise textile waste in the country.

In a move to protect the world’s vital ecosystems, a clutch of leading fashion brands including H&M, Inditex and Kering have announced a collective commitment to purchase over half a million tonnes of low-carbon, low-footprint alternative fibres for fashion textiles and paper packaging.