News
If we want change at scale, doing good is not enough. We believe communication plays an important role to inspire action and make change happen. Browse among our news, inspirational stories and learnings to find out more about our work.
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Biorestore is taking fashion’s footprint to the cleaners
Three years after winning the Global Change Award, the Swedish startup is scaling up its laundry innovation, and pushing back against fashion’s throwaway culture. Wajahat Hussain and Richard Toon, founders…
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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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Reimagining equity: reflections on phase 1 and what’s next for Oporajita
As the green transition accelerates, how can we make sure women aren’t left behind? Our Programme Director Charlotte Brunnström shares what we’ve learned from phase 1 of Oporajita in Bangladesh…
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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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H&M Foundation joins Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship
The H&M Foundation has joined the Global Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship, an initiative by the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship in partnership with the World Economic Forum. Through the Global Alliance…
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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…