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WWD – Heron Preston Visits Nairobi for United Nations Alliance for Sustainable Fashion Launch
Invited by the Future of Fashion Now collective, the two-night trip marked the launch of the United Nations Alliance for Sustainable Fashion. The U.N. Alliance for Sustainable Fashion is rooted in the urgency to better coordinate sustainable fashion efforts as they fit with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The Future of Fashion Now collective arranged for Preston and the cadre of other young designers to fly to Nairobi, Kenya for panel discussions, tours of secondhand markets and safari excursions. The markets were packed with essentially “the effects of what happens to our stuff when we no longer want it.” Taking out his smartphone to illustrate that point, Preston reeled through photos of a room stacked to the rafters with compressed bales of secondhand clothes.
UN News – UN launches drive to highlight environmental cost of staying fashionable
When we think of industries that are having a harmful effect on the environment, manufacturing, energy, transport and even food production might come to mind. But the fashion industry is considered by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), to be the second most polluting industry in the world.
BURO – UN Fashion Alliance
Good morning from Nairobi where I have been invited to speak at the launch of the United Nations Sustainable Fashion Alliance. For the first time, UN organisations who s work relates to fashion are coming together to bring one UN voice to fashion. We want to turn fashion into a driver of implementation for the Sustainable Development Goals.
Business Standard – UN alliance to halt environmentally destructive fashion practices
The UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion, launched at the UN Environment Assembly on Thursday, is seeking to halt the environmentally and socially destructive practices of fashion, and instead harness the industry as a driver for improving the world’s ecosystems.
Fashion Network – A Nairobi, les Nations Unies initient leur Alliance pour une mode soutenable
Le secteur génère quelque 2 400 milliards d’euros d’activité et emploie environ 75 millions de personnes dans le monde. Selon les chiffres distillés, il est à l’origine de 20 % des eaux usées dans le monde et participe au rejet de plus de 500 000 tonnes de microfibres de plastique dans les océans chaque année. Ses activités cumulées produiraient entre 8 % et 10 % de l’ensemble des émissions carbone sur la planète.
C’est pour agir que les différentes instances rattachées aux Nations Unies*, avec le soutien d’organismes comme la Sustainable apparel coalition, qui réunit nombre de marques, ont créé ce jeudi l’« Alliance for Sustainable Fashion ».
Fashion Network Canada – United Nations launches Alliance for Sustainable Fashion in Nairobi
Indeed, the sector generates some 2.4 trillion euros and employs around 75 million people worldwide. However, it is also responsible for 20% of the world’s sewage and results in over 500,000 tonnes of plastic microfibres entering the ocean each year. Furthermore, the industry’s cumulative operations reportedly account for between 8% and 10% of the carbon emissions on the planet.
In order to face up to this challenge, the different bodies associated with the UN* announced the creation of the Alliance for Sustainable Fashion on Thursday, with the support of organisations such as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, which brings together a number of brands.
IISD Reporting – UNEP, International Trade Centre Lead UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion
The UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion announced that it will hold its official launch during the fourth session of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-4). The Alliance is composed of UN and specialized agencies, including the World Bank Group’s Connect4Climate, the International Trade Centre’s (ITC) Ethical Fashion Initiative, the International Labour Organization (ILO), the UNFCCC Secretariat, the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Global Compact.
Fibre2Fashion – UNECE stresses transparency for garment/footwear sector
UNECE, along with the ITC, the European Commission, ILO and partners from the private sector, civil society and academia, is charting out a Decent Work and Transparency and Traceability Tool, to help the garment sector make risk-informed decisions and operate along a set of internationally agreed practices, increasing transparency vis a vis final consumers.
Arab News – Céline Semaan: ‘We must look at waste as a new resource’
NEW YORK: On a frigid afternoon in New York on February 1, the road to Manhattan’s Turtle Bay area was paved with fashionable footsteps. Kicking off New York Fashion Week, collaborators including industry experts, designers and scientists came together at the United Nations headquarters for an all-day summit focused on sustainability in fashion.