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T1 Sustainable Fashion: Communication Strategy 2021 - 2024
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A2 Arthur, Rachel
K1 sustainable consumption
K1 climate change
K1 communication policy
K1 clothing industry
K1 gender
K1 consumer behaviour
K1 behavioural change
K1 biodiversity
K1 nature conservation
K1 resource exploration
K1 employment
K1 resource efficiency
K1 textile
YR 2022
FD 2022-10
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/41076
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/41076
NO This document sets out UNEP’s sustainable fashion communication strategy, diagnosing the sector’s environmental and social harms and proposing systemic, coordinated change across citizens, policymakers and the private sector. The fashion industry is one of the largest contributors to the climate and ecological crisis. It is nature intensive, reliant on fossil fuels, polluting throughout its value chain and wasteful to the extreme. It is also predicated on a culture of overproduction and consumption, and facilitated by an underpaid workforce facing discrimination, unsafe working conditions and harassment. Reported figures show the industry is responsible for between 2–8% of global carbon emissions, with a recent authoritative report placing it at 4%, and the sector touches SDGs 6, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 1, 5, 8.  The strategy says current efforts fall short and calls for systemic transformation across design, production, use and disposal.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 23, 2026