A sustainable and resilient circular fashion and textiles industry - Towards a circular economy that respects

Global scientific assessments Multilateral policy agreements and Links to the 2030 Agenda supporting science-policy forums Climate change and Ocean Acidification ‘Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, and since the The main international agreement is the UN Framework SDGs 13 and 7 are 1950s, many of the observed changes are unprecedented over Convention on Climate Change and its 2015 Paris. [...] Environment Outlooks GEO1-6; the Millennium Ecosystem The main forums are the Intergovernmental Science- Assessment 2005; The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (TEEB 2010); and many UN Food and Agriculture Organisation ( ), and the CBD’s Subsidiary Body on Assessments, notably the State of… reports on food and Scientific. [...] In order to understand the implications the conditions of climatic and ecological stability and – of human-driven global environmental changes, today’s importantly for business – the predictability of the Holocene. [...] 1 6 A SUSTAINABLE AND RESILIENT CIRCULAR TEXTILES AND FASHION INDUSTRY Industry-wide change is needed to tackle pressures on the planet The fashion and textiles industry is a fast-growing complex system Over recent decades, the industry’s material resource use, Most sector projections expect the fashion and textiles production and sales have all increased exponentially – and industry to continue t. [...] GMO and transgenic (Bt) cotton, and the use abstraction, irrigation, extensive use of They must not use pesticides listed in the of synthetic pesticides and insecticides are not fertilisers and pesticides, and GMO crops.