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Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable: Resizing fashion for a fair consumption space

Posted on 24 November 2022

A new report by Hot or Cool highlights that current trends in fashion consumption, in particular fast fashion, cannot be maintained if we aim to achieve a fair and just transition to climate neutrality.

  • Links changes in fashion lifestyles to measurable impacts on climate change, in line with the 1.5-degree target of the Paris Agreement
  • Analyses fashion lifestyle carbon footprints in G20 countries
  • Establishes an equity-based footprint target for per capita fashion consumption for 2030
  • Reveals the extent of inequalities in carbon emission and levels of fashion consumption, by analysing the carbon footprints of different income groups within the G20 countries
  • Extends the concept of a fair consumption space to fashion, discussing fashion sufficiency and making quantitative estimates within the available carbon budget for G20 countries.

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Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable: Resizing fashion for a fair consumption space

The report links changes in fashion lifestyles to measurable impacts on climate change, in line with the aspirational target of the Paris Agreement to keep the average global temperature rise below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

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