Learnings & Insights
We regularly post valuable learnings and insightful perspectives across various topics.
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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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Amplifying voices from the textile value chain
The people closest to the textile industry’s challenges often have the least visibility at the events shaping its future. At the H&M Foundation, we’re working to enhance speaker representation at…
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“You can’t design climate solutions without listening to the people most affected”
In Bangladesh, where land is scarce and every hectare matters, the competition between agriculture and renewable energy is intensifying. Agrivoltaics offers a potential breakthrough: a way to produce solar energy…
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Oporajita enters Phase 2: bold steps towards a just, green future for women garment workers
In Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) sector, change isn’t just on the horizon, it’s already unfolding. As automation, digitalisation and climate risks reshape the future of work, women garment workers, who…
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From pilot to policy: waste picker-led circularity model scales to 12 Indian cities
Our project Saamuhika Shakti is proving how circularity can scale when it’s designed for both climate and social impact. A model that cuts emissions while supporting informal waste workers is…
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How COS and Houdini make innovation stick
Despite a wave of textile innovations ready for integration, only a fraction ever scale. Why do so many get stuck in pilot phase? And what separates those that succeed? We…
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Inside the GCA Changemaker Week: How the journey begins
What if the first step towards systems change doesn’t start with a pitch – but with a conversation in a small village just outside London, where ten changemaker teams meet…
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Why fashion’s future must be fair – the case for just transition
Every shift towards sustainability reshapes the world we live in – but who gets a seat at the table, and who gets left behind? Fernanda Drumond, Head of Collective Action…
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When DEI meets innovation: how KNIT brought new solutions to life
What happens when you combine entrepreneurial thinking with lived experience? That’s what the KNIT Incubator set out to explore – and the results are in. This article shares how two…