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                                UN Climate Change
                                Global Climate Action
                                22 June 2021




                                High Level Climate Champions
                                Newsletter

                                The Cutting Edge Fashion of Climate Action



                                Fashion is a global business, an art and a 
deeply personal form of expression. Its supply chain cuts across the 
economy, from raw materials, to artistic and functional designs, to 
small-scale and mass production, to retail, marketing and consumers.


                                Now a coalition including fashion brands, 
textile and clothing manufacturers, civil society organizations and industry 
experts are setting a new trend: faster, bigger emissions reductions. The 
Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action last week released the coalition’s 
Decarbonizing Fashion Milestones Document, which is produced in partnership 
with the Climate Champions’ team, in complementarity with the Industry 
Climate Action Pathway.


                                The document, based on contributions from 
over 25 industry organizations between 2020 and 2021, looks into known 
decarbonization efforts in the fashion space, compiled to support the 
industry’s transition to net-zero carbon emissions. The work has helped 
generate alignment on short-, medium-, and long-term action and milestones 
required to reach net zero in the 2040s, while providing a holistic overview 
of decarbonization efforts and milestone tracking. The aim is to promote and 
amplify existing initiatives on the road to COP26 and beyond.


                                This is crucial, because the fashion sector 
is responsible for 4 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, according 
to McKinsey and the Global Fashion Agenda. At the current pace of 
reductions, emissions from fashion by 2030 will be double the maximum needed 
to limit global warming to 1.5°C.


                                The report identifies four key areas of 
“white space” where the fashion industry can focus its efforts to tackle the 
climate crisis.


                                Energy: The shift to renewables and 
efficiency could make the biggest emissions reductions - and support a wider 
clean energy transition in developing countries where much of the world’s 
apparel and textiles are produced. Signatories of the Fashion Pact, for 
example, aim to power their operations entirely on renewables by 2030 and to 
incentivize the use of renewables for manufacturing processes across the 
supply chain. The Apparel Impact Institute is working to make mills more 
efficient and reduce up to 10 per cent of their CO2 emissions.


                                Finance: The apparel market is forecasted to 
grow to over US$2 trillion by 2025. This offers a US$20-30 billion per year 
financing opportunity for the development of innovative technologies and 
business models, according to Fashion for Good and BCG. Investment is needed 
in particular for hard-tech solutions such as new raw materials. Fashion for 
Good’s Good Fashion Fund is scaling up venture capital funding and the 
International Finance Corporation is promoting access to finance for apparel 
companies.


                                Policy: Policies to incentivise the clean 
energy transition, textiles recycling and wider innovation can help to 
accelerate the sector’s zero-carbon transformation. The Fashion Charter is 
working to encourage enabling policies in Bangladesh, China, India, 
Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia and other Southeast Asian countries.


                                Consumers: From when we buy a piece of 
clothing to the way we wash it, reuse it, recycle it or choose to toss it - 
our fashion choices play a role in decarbonizing fashion, too. Nearly a 
quarter of emissions come from consumer usage and waste, according to the 
Global Fashion Agenda and McKinsey. The Fashion Charter and UN Environment 
Programme are developing a playbook to communicate a 1.5°C lifestyle to 
consumers, due out later this year.





                                The Climate Action Trendsetters



                                Some fashion brands are already blazing the 
trail on the race to a healthy, resilient zero-emissions world in the 
2040s - and many are in the Race to Zero.


                                Burberry became the first luxury brand to 
pledge to become climate-positive by 2040. To get there, the British brand 
intends to cut emissions in its extended supply chain by 46 per cent by 2030 
and help others in the industry follow the same path. Affordable and fast 
fashion retailer H&M similarly aims to have a climate-positive value chain 
by 2040, starting with climate-neutral by 2030. Fashion brand Ralph Lauren 
is aiming for net zero emissions across its operations and value chain by 
2040, with a 30 per cent reduction in both between 2020 and 2030.


                                Outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia, a B 
Corp Climate Collective member, aims to reach net-zero emissions across its 
supply chain by 2025 by shifting to full renewable energy, using recycled 
and renewable materials and developing low-emission dyeing techniques.


                                Sportswear brand Puma aims to reduce 
emissions from its own operations by 35 per cent and across its supply chain 
by two-thirds between 2017 and 2030 en route to net zero by 2050. Sports 
brands Adidas, New Balance, Nike, Salomon and Under Armour, luxury 
conglomerate Kering group and brands Chanel, Salvatore Ferragamo and Stella 
McCartney, Chinese viscose rayon leader Sateri, the manufacturers Artistic 
Milliners from Pakistan, DBL Group from Bangladesh and RT Knits Ltd from 
Mauritius, chain retailer Target Australia, and major zip-maker YKK Group 
are all part of the Race to Zero campaign, too.





                                What is the Future of the Race to Zero



                                A year after launching the UN Race to Zero 
campaign, we know where we’re headed and we increasingly know what it will 
take to get there. The question is, what does the Race to Zero campaign look 
like after COP26 in November? How do we keep members on track to ensure they 
progress towards and continually raise their commitments?


                                The UN High-Level Champions for Climate 
Action want to hear your thoughts. We are therefore launching a public 
consultation, with an opening event on Wednesday, 23 June (register here).


                                This kicks off a 10-week period in which we 
encourage you to submit written responses to specific questions outlined in 
the consultation. The submissions will then be made public and open to 
discussion as we work together to set out the future of the Race to Zero.

                                In Case You Missed It

                                a.. The Race to Zero’s rapid growth in its 
first year shows that halving emissions by 2030 is the new normal, with more 
than 4,500 non-state actors from 92 countries committing to robust climate 
action. Watch the Race to Zero’s birthday video here. Major new joiners 
include Google, Microsoft, Apple, Pfizer, Engie, JLL and Visa.


                                a.. Land degradation from climate change and 
the expansion of agriculture, cities and infrastructure “undermines the 
wellbeing of 3.2 billion people,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said 
last week. “Restoring degraded land would remove carbon from the 
atmosphere … help vulnerable communities adapt to climate change … and it 
could generate an extra US$1.4 trillion in agricultural production each 
year.”


                                a.. Renewable electricity outcompetes 
existing coal-fired power, yet the share of fossil fuels in the global 
energy mix remains as high as it was a decade ago, at 80 percent, according 
to REN21’s Renewables Global Status report. G20 countries barely met, or 
even missed, their 2020 renewable energy targets, REN21 found, calling the 
targets “unambitious”.


                                a.. Bigger, more frequent and longer-lasting 
wildfires are exposing larger populations, including in urban areas, to 
harmful and prolonged levels of wildfire smoke, according to a report by 
Climate and Health Alliance in Australia, the Canadian Association of 
Physicians for the Environment in Canada and the WONCA Working Party for the 
Environment.


                                a.. NATO countries have invited the alliance’s 
secretary-general to formulate a “realistic, ambitious and concrete” 
emissions reduction target and assess the feasibility of reaching net zero 
by 2050. They will also begin a regular high-level climate and security 
dialogue to exchange views and coordinate further action.


                                a.. The University of Edinburgh and UN have 
launched a partnership to develop a system for businesses to measure and 
reduce emissions across their operations. The framework will make it 
possible to assess the most cost-efficient way to make the biggest dent in 
greenhouse gases.


                                a.. The travel and tourism sector can reduce 
the amount of single-use plastic used by, among other steps, giving 
contractual preference to reusable product suppliers, planning ways to avoid 
a return to single-use plastic in the event of disease outbreaks and 
supporting research and innovation, according to a report by the UN 
Environment Programme and the World Travel and Tourism Council.


                                Enjoyed this round-up? Keep up to date with 
daily news from the Race to Zero, Race to Resilience and our partners on 
racetozero.unfccc.int!

                                Mark Your Calendars

                                a.. UN High-level Dialogue on Energy - 
Ministerial-level Thematic Forums: 21-25 June
                                b.. Top international lawyers unveil 
definition of "ecocide": 22 June
                                c.. The Future of Race to Zero, public 
consultation opening: 23 June
                                d.. Decarbonising the energy sector to 
achieve a 1.5 degree, resilient world - Launch of the Marrakech Partnership 
Climate Action Pathway for Energy, 24 June
                                e.. Chatham House Climate Change Conference 
2021: 24-25 June
                                f.. Get Net Zero Right, part of London 
Climate Action Week: 28 June
                                g.. London Climate Action Week: 26 June-4 
July
                                h.. Vienna Energy Forum 2021: 5-7 July
                                i.. Asia Pacific Climate Week: 6-9 July
                                j.. UN High-level Political Forum on 
Sustainable Development 2021 (HLPF): 6-15 July
                                k.. Africa Climate Week, virtual thematic 
sessions: 26-28 July






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