A large number of brands still lack visible efforts to finance their climate plans and support suppliers to decarbonise. Photo: Freepik
The fashion industry is responsible for up to 8% of the world's planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions, according to United Nations figures, which many of its companies have promised to tackle with targets to reach net zero by 2050 or sooner.
Yet researchers, companies and industry insiders say that little has been done to push this along in their supply chains in major textile-producing countries like Bangladesh, India and Cambodia.
