Sustainability in fashion

The Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), organizer of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit is currently developing together with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as knowledge partner the "Pulse of the Fashion Industry report".

The report follows the strong belief that the environmental, social and ethical challenges the industry is facing today are not a threat, but instead an immense – untapped – value creation opportunity. This annual report will be the first of its kind to not only summarize where the industry stands today as a pulse check, but to prove the business case for sustainability.

The report will be launched at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit on May 11, 2017.

We would like the industry to be actively heard in the report. That is why we are reaching out to you as we would greatly appreciate your thoughts and contribution as part of our global survey.

All information provided in this survey will be handled strictly confidentially and results will only be published in anonymized form.

At the very end of the survey, you will receive the opportunity to share any additional thoughts.

Definition of sustainability for this survey

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1. Use of renewable energies and CO2 emission management 2. Contains compensation, working hours, worker treatment, worker involvement, worker rights (to vacation, to form unions etc), worker equality (women vs men), child labor 3. Comprises all facility standards related to that (fire doors, sufficient emergency exits etc; established emergency procedures/training) as well as exposure to chemicals and dangerous equipment 4. Includes for instance corruption, animal welfare, use of models and imagery that sets a poor standard 5. Also containing care and repair

As illustrated in the above framework, sustainability is defined in this survey as encompassing environmental, social, as well as ethical issues along the entire fashion value chain and all departments of a company.
A "sustainability initiative" in this regard refers not only to actions steered by a CSR or sustainability-focused department, but can be grounded in any of the different steps of the industry's value chain. For instance it could refer to
•  setting standards for designs to reduce material waste,
• limiting the choice of raw materials to reduce the water footprint of a garment,
•  prescribing minimum manufacturing standards to increase workers' quality of life,
•  reducing transportation needs in distribution,
•  offering solutions to consumers when a garment has reached its end of use to allow for recycling of old clothes.

The report focuses specifically on the fashion industry which is defined to comprise apparel, footwear, jewelry & accessories, as well as home textiles.

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