{"id":26319,"date":"2023-03-09T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T02:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aiinewstg.local\/?p=26319"},"modified":"2024-02-26T15:18:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:18:53","slug":"press-reasons-to-be-cheerful-an-unsexy-system-for-greening-fashion-that-actually-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/resources\/press-reasons-to-be-cheerful-an-unsexy-system-for-greening-fashion-that-actually-works\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESS: Reasons To Be Cheerful - An \u2018Unsexy\u2019 System for Greening Fashion That Actually Works"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Forget pants made of car tires \u2014 to truly make fashion more sustainable, a collaboration between dozens of brands is slashing the industry\u2019s carbon footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By: Peter Yeung <\/a>March 9, 2023 4min read https:\/\/reasonstobecheerful.world\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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According to a joint report<\/a> by the institute and nonprofit Fashion for Good<\/a>, an \u201caggressive acceleration\u201d of implementing currently existing solutions could allow the fashion industry to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, a target in line with the Paris Agreement<\/a>. \u201cWe can scale these proven solutions,\u201d says Perkins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transformative change is needed for the $2.5 trillion<\/a> fashion industry: It produces 10 percent<\/a> of all greenhouse gas emissions, and textile production is responsible for 1.2 billion tons<\/a> of emissions a year. Clothing production creates a fifth of global waste water<\/a> and 92 million tons<\/a> of textile waste a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is clearly one of the biggest emitters of greenhouse gasses,\u201d says Teresa Domenech Aparisi<\/a>, associate professor in Industrial Ecology and the Circular Economy at University College London. \u201cAnd it produces huge amounts of excess and waste.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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According to a\u00a0joint report\u00a0by the institute and nonprofit\u00a0Fashion for Good, an \u201caggressive acceleration\u201d of implementing currently existing solutions could allow the fashion industry to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050, a target\u00a0in line with the Paris Agreement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"%%post_title%% %%sep%% %%sitetitle%%","_seopress_titles_desc":"%%post_excerpt%%","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1],"tags":[],"media-types":[51],"class_list":["post-26319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-category","category-uncategorized","media-types-article"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26319"},{"taxonomy":"media-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-types?post=26319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}