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Fashion’s Confounding Climate Math, Explained

Want to understand why it’s so hard to cut fashion’s planet-warming emissions? Or why consumers say they care about sustainability, but shop like they don’t? Stop thinking in straight lines, writes Kenneth P. Pucker.
A woman in a green dress sits in front of palm fronds. She is surrounded by complicated equations.
Fashion's decarbonisation calculus is confusing and counterintuitive. (The Business of Fashion)

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About the author
Kenneth Pucker

Kenneth Pucker is a contributing writer at The Business of Fashion. Pucker is an American writer and educator who specialises in sustainability.

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