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What COP26 Means for Fashion

Achieving the ambitions laid out at the UN climate summit require a wholesale transformation of the way the fashion industry operates. Are business leaders ready?
A giant globe hangs from the ceiling as delegates attend the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Getty Images.
A giant globe hangs from the ceiling as delegates attend the COP26 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Getty Images.

The UN COP26 climate summit’s two weeks of sweeping commitments and frenzied negotiations aimed at keeping alive global ambitions to stave off catastrophic levels of climate change ran into overtime Friday.

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