Suppliers shoulder burden of brands' targets - report
13/11/2023
The report identifies a disconnect between the industry pursuit of Science-Based Targets and the feasibility and equity in garment supply chains.
It also points to the need for a wider reckoning about funding: carbon mitigation will stall if suppliers are not only expected to do most of the work to decarbonize, but to pay for it, too, said the foundation.
Authored by Elizabeth Cline, lecturer of fashion policy and consumerism at Columbia University; Brooke Roberts-Islam, an independent journalist; and Kim van der Weerd, intelligence director of Transformers Foundation, the report delves into the complexities of the fashion industry's climate commitments and the unfair burden they place on textile and apparel suppliers.
Ms van der Weerd said: “This report articulates how and why the sector’s current approach to climate action makes it a supplier responsibility, rather than a collective responsibility. It also offers evidence for why this is not only inequitable, but also impractical and doomed to fail. At the same time, by putting forward a definition of collective action, I hope this paper gives a framework for how we could accelerate action.”
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