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The Climate Pledge, alongside Amazon, Stella McCartney, and Canopy have co-founded The Climate Pledge Fashion Coalition, with convening support from the World Economic Forum. The coalition supports more than 60 Climate Pledge signatories, including fashion brands, innovators, manufacturers, and retailers, in their work to reach net-zero carbon by 2040. By combining collective demand with new financing models, and new tools like the Fashion Coalition Lever Library, the coalition aims to help more sustainable materials and processes scale across the industry, reducing environmental effects across fashion supply chains.
Right now, the materials and processes that could significantly reduce fashion's environmental footprint are too expensive, too scarce, or too fragmented to compete with conventional alternatives at scale. The coalition exists to change that. Rather than focusing solely on end-of-life solutions, it targets innovation earlier in the product lifecycle, supporting the development, commercialization, and adoption of materials and processes with measurably lower environmental footprints. That includes organic, recycled, and next-generation fibers made from waste feedstocks, as well as manufacturing technologies that reduce water use, chemical inputs, and emissions. The goal is to make these options the new standard across the industry, bringing more sustainable fashion choices to customers at every price point.
Co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism in 2019, The Climate Pledge has grown to include more than 700 signatories across 60+ industries, all committed to reaching net-zero carbon by 2040. Fashion's supply chains cut across many of those industries, and that cross-sector network is what makes The Climate Pledge Fashion Coalition different. It builds on a proven model of collaboration and brings it to one of the world's most complex and resource-intensive industries.
