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The Daunting Task of Measuring Fashion's Carbon Footprint

The challenges of measuring fashion's carbon footprint, urgent need of consistent reporting standards in the industry, complexities hindering progress.

Parvind Dutta ·29 May 2024 ·1 min read

The fashion industry is under the sustainability microscope for its substantial contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. But as brands big and small promote solutions like sustainable materials, product circularity, and technological innovations like virtual try-ons to reduce their environmental impact, a recent Bloomberg Green investigation reveals a fundamental roadblock - the extreme difficulty of accurately measuring fashion’s carbon footprint.

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Parvind Dutta

Founder of MapleSage. Twenty years in insurance technology — AIG, Prudential, MetLife, Duck Creek — now building the systems he used to sell.

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