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Op-Ed | Fashion’s Business Model Isn’t Fit for Climate Change

The fashion industry has long avoided significant costs and risks in its supply chain, but a reckoning is looming, argue Cornell’s Jason Judd and Sarosh Kuruvilla.
A man walks through rain and dye outside a dyeing factory in Bangladesh.
A man walks through rain and dye outside a dyeing factory in Bangladesh. (Getty)
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  • Jason Judd,
  • Sarosh Kuruvilla

Who, exactly, is responsible for the “loss and damage” caused by climate change? At this year’s UN climate summit, the divide between the Global North and the Global South, where poor countries are demanding compensation, broke wide open with big implications for the fashion industry.

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