Rachel Kitchin

An investigation by Stand.earth Research Group (SRG) says that more than 100 fashion giants currently source many of their fabrics from fracked oil and gas in the Permian Basin in Texas. And, of the 107 petrochemical-linked brands only one has committed to phase out virgin polyester altogether, and none have explicit, time-bound targets to increase the use of recycled textile waste.

Fashion has some bad news for the planet. Most brands are actively “greenwashing” their emissions with none of the companies assessed reporting transparently on the terms, value invested or availability to suppliers, says a new Stand.earth report.

Advocacy nonprofit Stand.earth has filed an anti-competition complaint against leading Canadian fashion brand Lululemon claiming that the latter’s ‘Be Planet’ campaign misleads customers about its environmental impact.

The fashion industry shifted from the sidelines to a more prominent role in the discussions at this climate conference. Time it is also for the sector to match its green rhetoric with robust measures to decarbonise, invest in renewable energy and phase-out reliance on fossil fuels. A first person account from the COP28 event in Dubai.

The Fossil-Free Fashion Scorecard 2023 reveals that the fashion industry’s decarbonisation progress over the past 18 months has been insufficient and extremely disappointing with only a few pockets of progress.