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It’s Time for Fashion to Get Real About Its Climate Risks

Many brands have treated the climate crisis as a useful marketing tool, while viewing the impact to the bottom line as a distant threat. That approach is increasingly untenable, experts warn.
Labourers walk past cotton crops damaged by flood waters that wiped out nearly half Pakistan’s crop in 2022.
Labourers walk past cotton crops damaged by flood waters that wiped out nearly half Pakistan’s crop in 2022. (Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images)

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Sarah Kent
Sarah Kent

Sarah Kent is Chief Sustainability Correspondent at The Business of Fashion. She is based in London and drives BoF's coverage of critical environmental and labour issues.

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