Policymakers discuss fashion’s future in Brussels
29/11/2023
Just days before Dubai-based climate conference COP28, the event, hosted by Alessandra Moretti MEP, also featured Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius, Paola Migliorini, from the EC’s environment unit, and Laurence Tubiana, CEO of the European Climate Foundation.
An audience consisting of MEPs, NGO leaders, business representatives and stakeholders deliberated the role of the fashion industry in upholding the commitments of the Paris Agreement to limit global heating to below 1.5°C.
The event also delved into the impact of policy measures such as the Eco design for Sustainable Products Regulation and the Waste Framework Directive in diminishing the fashion sector’s dependence on fossil fuels.
Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius said: “It’s very important to keep the textiles sector in the public eye. We must make fast fashion, past fashion. We very much want a competitive, resilient and innovative textile sector, but we want to deliver that with a different model. I hope we will all be brave enough and responsible enough in our behaviour, and realise that overproduction and overconsumption impacts us all.”
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