By outsourcing production to polluting factories in places like China, Vietnam, Turkey, and Bangladesh, the fashion industry is avoiding responsibility for its role in the climate crisis. It may be hard to believe, but the fashion industry is responsible for at least 4% of global climate pollution. While the world pressures global leaders to invest in bold climate action, industries like fashion slide under the radar. Why let these polluting industries off the hook?
Our newly released 2025 Fossil Free Fashion Scorecard shows that the fashion industry is on fire – and not in the way we might hope. For every fashion brand aligning its emissions with 1.5 degree climate targets, nearly six others are actively increasing emissions. Some, like Shein, are pumping out so much carbon its pollution now rivals entire countries.
We saw it with Levi Strauss & Company when over 140,000 of you called on the denim giant to lead the fashion industry in climate action. Levi's listened to you, and committed to the most ambitious climate targets the industry as seen. We saw it with lululemon, when after years of advocacy, the brand committed to transitioning 50% of its supply chain to renewable electricity and ditch coal by 2030. Now, we're calling on other companies to follow Levi's and lululemon's leadership and clean up the industry once and for all.
Join the #FilthyFashion campaign to send a message the fashion industry can't ignore.