The 2024 Global Fashion Summit highlighted the slow progress in fashion sustainability despite the urgent need to reduce emissions. Key takeaways include bold leadership, innovative circular business models, elevating Indigenous voices, improving supply chain representation, promoting garment worker wages, expanding textile recycling, and shifting from hope to action. While the industry faces challenges, collaborative efforts and brand support are crucial for a more sustainable future.
The Global Fashion Summit 2023 marked 15 years of advocating sustainability in the fashion industry. Despite progress, speakers expressed disappointment in the slow pace of change. The Fashion CEO Agenda presented five key opportunities for transformative impact: operationalizing sustainability, redefining growth, activating consumers, prioritizing people, and mobilizing based on materiality. The summit aimed to encourage leaders, brands, and consumers to drive progress in sustainability, recognizing the urgency of climate change and the need to protect the environment.
