Just transition
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Textile Futures 2040: four possible futures for the textile industry
Together with Forum for the Future, we are launching Textile Futures 2040, four scenarios that help industry leaders test today’s decisions against different possible futures. An open toolkit lets any…
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Designing circularity for inclusion and scale
At Textile Exchange 2026 in Vancouver, conversations repeatedly came back to one challenge: how do we move from ambition to implementation? Our takeaway is that the answer lies in who…
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Why the future of cotton might not need a field
A project between the Spanish hydroponic-farming company Magtech and H&M Group’s Circular Innovation Lab is testing a different way to grow cotton: without soil and in a closed loop of…
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Meet the workers and manufacturers navigating just decarbonisation in Bangladesh
Across the textile industry in Bangladesh, the climate transition is reshaping factories, jobs and livelihoods. When brands set targets for decarbonisation and factories adopt new low-carbon or automated technologies, women…
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Why decarbonisation needs more than technology
Decarbonisation is usually measured in tonnes of carbon. Not in jobs, livelihoods or the women at risk of losing them. With low-carbon technology being introduced in factories, more manual tasks…
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What shaped our thinking at Global Fashion Summit – and what we brought back
At this year’s Global Fashion Summit, much of the conversation centred on how to decarbonise a complex global industry. But beneath the technical discussions sits a more fundamental question: who…
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Shaping industry conversations
When key actors are missing from industry conversations, solutions risk being unrealistic, ineffective, or unjust. Our work to ensure that critical perspectives shape decisions is not a question of representation,…
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How a perception shift helped redesign a circular system in Bengaluru
In Bengaluru, a six-year perception change campaign did more than change attitudes, it helped redesign an inclusive circular system. The approach combined behavioural insights, storytelling, social experiments and specific actions…
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Why fashion is less circular than ever – and what it’ll take to change course
Over the last decade, circularity has been one of the loudest conversations in the textile industry. Today, resale platforms are growing, innovative solutions are gaining traction and circular business models…