Fashion Sustainability: Gfs Summit & Esg Challenges

It’s reasonable, offered the wider climate: the ecological challenges GFS was started to fix are bounding past irreversible tipping points, and the past year has verified that regulatory authorities are an unreliable saviour. At the summit, large brand names maintained a lower account, possibly keen to avoid the wrath of greenwashing watchdogs and the anti-ESG Trump administration.

Worldwide Fashion Summit (GFS)

For the past 16 years– pandemic notwithstanding– sustainability experts have collected in Copenhagen each June for the Worldwide Fashion Top (GFS), a two-day seminar organised by the International Fashion Schedule (GFA), extending panel conversations, closed-door roundtables, an advancement expo and vast side events. While the official program mirrors shifting priorities at a greater degree, it’s the mood among guests that supplies the most helpful pulse check of the more comprehensive state of lasting fashion.

ESG & Brand Presence

Despite Trump’s suppression on ESG, stripped-back EU policies and a renewed fight versus greenwashing, several big brand names swapped onstage presence for closed-door roundtables this year, transforming the ambience.