UN group publishes playbook for fashion industry climate action
Signatories of the Fashion Industry Charter — a group that explores ways the textile, clothing and fashion industry can minimise its environmental impact — have published the first Playbook for Climate Action.
The guide, which can be found here, aims to identify actions, initiatives and programmes to facilitate decarbonisation. It is primarily intended for less-experienced fashion companies that haven’t yet taken steps to fight climate change, but want to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
However, the guide is still valuable for larger or more experienced companies, including those with approved science-based targets (SBTs), the group said; such companies might find the guide useful with their suppliers. The playbook is not meant for companies for which fashion comprises only a small part of their business, such as chemical manufacturers.
Puma’s head of corporate sustainability and chair of the Fashion Charter steering committee, Stefan Seidel, said: "Together, and only together, we have a unique opportunity through the Charter to make this the decade of ambition and collaboration for climate action. We hope that this playbook will be a useful tool to rally everyone in our industry behind the goals of the Paris Agreement.”
