Carbon

Strategic technical manager for textiles at not-for-profit campaign organisation WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme), Catherine Salvidge, reveals what fashion retailers and brands should look out for in the coming year when it comes to sustainability.

Founder of non-profit organisation Fashion Declares, Safia Minney – who was named Drapers Sustainable Fashion Champion 2022 – uses her grassroots movement to call for radical change in the fashion industry amid climate, ecological and social crises. She tells Drapers why carbon literacy is central to this radical change.

Danielle Thomson, fashion sector lead at the Carbon Trust – a non-profit helping businesses, governments and organisations decarbonise – tells Drapers that Black Friday could present an unexpected opportunity for fashion retailers to be more sustainable.

Many fashion businesses trying to reduce their carbon footprints amid the spiralling climate crisis are buying offsets to help reach their goals. Drapers investigates this controversial practice.

Marks & Spencer has partnered with BP Pulse, the electric vehicle (EV) charging arm of energy giant BP, to provide high-speed charging points to the group’s estate across the UK.

Discover the 2022 edition of Drapers sustainability report, which covers ESG policy and sustainable legislation; strategies to tackle waste, over-production and Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions; and features interviews with CEOs and business leaders from innovative brands leading the way in the sustainability space.

Join us at lunchtime today (13 May) as a panel of experts discuss actionable strategies on how to cut carbon across the fashion and retail industry, with carbon reduction and climate tech platform Vaayu.

The next in our series of Drapers Connects webinars will bring together a panel of experts to discuss actionable strategies on how to cut carbon across the fashion and retail industry, including the CEO of jewellery brand Missoma.

Less than 20% of large retailers are on track to cut their scope 3 carbon emissions by enough to meet targets for limiting the rise in global temperature to 1.5 degrees, set by the Paris Agreement in 2015, new research by management consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG) has found.

Tracking, measuring and communicating data on sustainability actions can help fashion businesses win lasting consumer loyalty. Drapers examines some of the tools that are helping retailers in this mission.