Raw materials are the core and fundamental elements of fashion and apparel industry, also a prime suspect for climate change and sustainability challenges. The industry must cooperate for the solve issue of sustainability challenges in textile and take necessary action to meet business standards. The need is urgent, and the industry knows it: more than 85% of leading brands (by sales) have publicly declared decarbonization targets for their supply chains.
Ways of reducing carbon emission
The supply chain must use materials, even with lowest environmental and social impact because of the seamlessness of the network. We can have two pathways to reduce greenhouse emissions such as:
- Using sustainably sourced recycled raw materials (this goes for all non-renewable materials but is also an increasingly important pathway for renewable raw materials)
- Using sustainably sourced renewable raw materials that are continually replenished at a rate equal to or greater than the rate of depletion.
Reference: From World Economic Forum published in April 2024.