Sustainable fashion

Sustainable fashion displayed by Swedish models, 2020

Sustainable fashion (also known as eco-fashion) is a term describing efforts within the fashion industry to reduce its environmental impacts, protect workers producing garments, and uphold animal welfare. Sustainability in fashion encompasses a wide range of factors, including "cutting CO2 emissions, addressing overproduction, reducing pollution and waste, supporting biodiversity, and ensuring that garment workers are paid a fair wage and have safe working conditions".[1]

In 2020, it was found that voluntary self-directed reform of textile manufacturing supply chains by large companies to reduce the environmental impact was largely unsuccessful.[2][3] Measures to reform fashion production beyond greenwashing requires policies for the creation and enforcement of standardized certificates, along with related import controls, subsidies,[4] and interventions such as eco-tariffs.[5][6][7]

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  4. ^ Niu, Baozhuang; Chen, Lei; Zhang, Jie (November 2017). "Punishing or subsidizing? Regulation analysis of sustainable fashion procurement strategies". Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 107: 81–96. doi:10.1016/j.tre.2017.09.010.
  5. ^ "Increasing Green Credentials beyond Greenwash" (PDF). Retrieved November 22, 2021.
  6. ^ Dahl, Richard (June 2010). "Green Washing: Do You Know What You're Buying?". Environmental Health Perspectives. 118 (6): A246-52. doi:10.1289/ehp.118-a246. PMC 2898878. PMID 20515714.
  7. ^ Neuman, Salla (2019). "Sustainability in fashion production – How are the pioneers doing it?". www.theseus.fi.