The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) has joined the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Fashion for Global Climate Action initiative as a signatory to the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action.
The Fashion for Global Climate Action initiative calls on the fashion industry and organisations in the textile supply chain to acknowledge the contribution of the sector to climate change and its responsibility to strive towards climate neutrality for a safer planet.
Launched in December of last year at the United Nations climate change conference, COP24, in Katowice, Poland, the Charter is seen as an industry milestone in collectively addressing the climate impact of the fashion sector across its entire value chain.
“Through collective action and bold leadership, we have the power to make this fast and drastic transformation. By signing the Charter, we have demonstrated our commitment to playing our part to ensure that cotton production is on the path to a low-carbon future,” BCI said in a statement.
BCI is a non-profit that promotes better standards in cotton farming and practices, with partner retailers including H&M, Gap and Levi Strauss.
Last month, it reported that cotton produced in line with its Better Cotton principles and criteria now accounts for 19% of global cotton production, with 2m licensed BCI farmers having produced 5.1m metric tonnes of Better Cotton in the 2017-18 cotton season.
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By GlobalDataThe organisation added it hopes its commitment to the UNFCCC’s initiative will inspire its members, communities, and governments to raise their climate ambition in a united effort to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
“This is a race we can —and must —win to avoid significantly worsening the risk of droughts, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people.”
