Fast fashion: How clothes are linked to climate change

How can you reduce your fashion footprint?

The UN has launched the #ActNow Fashion Challenge to highlight how industry and individuals can help improve fashion's environmental impact. It says that reducing the fashion industry's carbon footprint "is key to limiting [global] warming". Make clothes more sustainably Several firms have launched "eco" collections which use organic and recycled materials, including H&M Conscious, Adidas x Parley and Zara Join Life. But critics argue such collections don't solve the biggest problem - overconsumption.