Apparel Online India Magazine April 1st Issue 2019 | Page 17

SUSTAINABILITY
UN initiates alliance to promote fashion
sustainability
The UN has launched an alliance
to endorse sustainability in
fashion in an effort to help textile
and fashion sector attain the
2030 agenda for sustainable
development. The alliance was
launched on 14 March in Nairobi,
Kenya, during the ongoing 4th
Session of the UN Environment
Assembly (UNEA). Among the
major objectives of forming the
UN Alliance for Sustainable
Fashion is to understand where
the gaps exist, do an analysis and
then recommend the UN member
states to take necessary action in
their respective countries.
Further on the above, Michael
Stanley-Jones, Program
Management Officer, Poverty-
Environment Facility, UN
Environment Programme (UNEP),
said this alliance will help the
institutions share solutions and
technologies to popularise the
agreed development goals. He also
added that the alliance endeavours
to start a collaborative dialogue
with important players from
various streams of the industry so
as to create tangible, beneficial and
lasting solutions that will ensure
the fashion is able to adapt and
thrive. “The fashion sector is the
second biggest consumer of water.
It not only produces 20 per cent
of wastewater but also annually
releases half a million tonnes of
microfibres into ocean,” stated
Stanley-Jones.
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