GCA News
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GCA Impact story: How Ponda is restoring ecosystems at scale
When Ponda won the Global Change Award in 2022, they set out to prove that a supply chain could restore ecosystems rather than exhaust them. Three years on, they’ve raised…
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Reverse Resources: A decade of mapping, tracing and trading textile waste
GCA 2016 winner Reverse Resources started from an idea that was invisible to the textile industry. Because before you can recycle textile waste at scale, you need to know what…
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Here are the Top 20 finalists for the GCA 2026
Carbon-capturing dyes. Enzyme-powered recycling. Fungi breaking down textile waste. AI reducing factory energy before a single garment is made. These – and many more – are the pioneering innovations that…
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What I learned in Vietnam: Reflections from Changemaker Week 3
Week 3 marks the final chapter of the GCA Changemaker Programme and is a week of industry immersion: stepping inside production sites, meeting manufacturers and connecting innovation to real-world implementation.…
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Meet the experts shaping GCA 2026
With Global Change Award 2026 underway, we’re introducing this year’s Expert Panel: a group of industry leaders and thinkers bringing experience from across the textile system. Their combined insight will…
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10 years of backing early-stage innovation and why it still matters
Ten years after its launch, the Global Change Award has grown from an ambitious idea into a leading platform for early-stage innovation in the textile industry. Much has changed since…
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Ambercycle: a spark that scaled
Ten years ago, two California roommates found a bag of old clothes in their closet: worn-out t-shirts and polyester blends they no longer needed. But for Shay Sethi and Moby…
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5 moments that shaped the GCA Summit 2025
This year’s Global Change Award Summit in Stockholm wasn’t for passive bystanders. It was a creative lab – a space for rewiring how we think, what we value and how…
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Imagination in action: reflections from Changemaker Week 2 in Stockholm
Going into the second Changemaker Week, I kept coming back to the words, “If not me, who? If not now, when?” These are questions our ten winners have clearly asked…