Big-name fashion brands sign charter aligned with Paris Agreement which sets a key oadmap towards carbon neutrality by 2050 – the date by which the UN believes it is possible to fully decarbonise the global fashion sector. The document outlines 16 key principles for signatories, including a clause requiring participating businesses to reduce their overall carbon footprint by 30% by 2030. Signatories are also required to phase out high-climate impact raw materials from their products, packaging and supply chains, and to stop installing coal-fired boilers at supplier factories by 2025. The charter is industry-led, meaning all its targets have been agreed on by the 31 signatory businesses rather than the UN. The UN has additionally made it clear that other companies are welcome to sign the charter, so long as they work within the fashion design, retail or supply industries. “This charter is about getting the fashion industry united in important climate work,” H&M Group’s chief executive Karl-Johan Persson said. “Our industry has a global reach, and only together can we create the change that is urgently needed.” Persson’s sentiments were echoed by Levi Strauss’s vice president of sustainability Michael Kobori, who added: “We are proud to join the charter, which brings together leading apparel and footwear brands, supply chain actors, and civil society to reduce the estimated 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions produced by our sector.

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