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What Are Fashion’s Climate Risks?

Efforts to stave off catastrophic climate change are failing, reports from the UN’s COP27 climate summit show. From cotton yields to forced labour, here’s what that means for fashion.
Left to right: flooding affects a cotton field in Pakistan; waterlogged streets in Dhaka, Bangladesh following Cyclone Sitrang; women working in a garment factory in Bangladesh
Climate change is due to impact raw materials production, infrastructure and labour rights in fashion's supply chains. (Getty Images)

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