This morning, during our November Carbon Literacy Training for Fashion and Retail, we used The Hot or Cool Report: Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable: Resizing Fashion for a Fair Consumption Space.
This report:
- Links changes in fashion lifestyles to measurable impacts on climate change, in line with the 1.5-degree target of the Paris Agreement
- Analyses fashion lifestyle carbon footprints in G20 countries
- Establishes an equity-based footprint target for per capita fashion consumption for 2030
- Reveals the extent of inequalities in carbon emission and levels of fashion consumption, by analysing the carbon footprints of different income groups within the G20 countries
- Extends the concept of a fair consumption space to fashion, discussing fashion sufficiency and making quantitative estimates within the available carbon budget for G20 countries
In case you missed it:
“If no additional actions are taken—such as repairing, mending, washing at lower temperatures, or buying second-hand—new garment purchases should be limited to an average of five items per year to align with consumption levels compatible with the 1.5°C target.”
“An equity-based approach to allocating per-person carbon budgets for achieving the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement requires greater emissions reductions from individuals with higher carbon footprints. This approach applies the concept of a ‘fair consumption space.’”
“While the richest 20% in the UK emit 83% above the 1.5°C target, 74% of Indonesians live below sufficiency consumption levels for fashion.”
