Sophie Benson
Journalist at Freelance
Author and freelance journalist working with a focus on sustainable fashion, the environment, workers’ rights, and consumerism
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3 weeks ago |
voguebusiness.com | Sophie Benson
For the last five years, the European Union has been a vocal advocate for tighter sustainability regulations, spurring and scaling momentum towards circularity, transparency and traceability. Then, at the end of February, progress ground to a halt — and some say it began to reverse.
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1 month ago |
businessoffashion.com | Sophie Benson
The European Union proposed a raft of reforms to flagship sustainability regulations Wednesday, slashing environmental reporting requirements for thousands of businesses and almost entirely removing the supply chain from due diligence considerations. The trading bloc’s pioneering green agenda has played a central role in pushing fashion brands to do more to address pollution and labour abuses within the industry. Its rollback threatens already lagging efforts.
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1 month ago |
nokillmag.com | Sophie Benson
London Fashion Week (LFW) has just wrapped for another season, and it was a big one for sustainability – London became the first of the big four fashion capitals to adopt minimum sustainability requirements. In January, the British Fashion Council (BFC) announced that it was adopting the minimum sustainability requirements which were first developed by Copenhagen Fashion Week back in 2019 and fully implemented for the AW23 season in the Danish capital.
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2 months ago |
atmos.earth | Sophie Benson
Research tracks the shipping of tactical vests, helmets, and other battlefield gear across borders to reach the Israel Defense Forces. Inside a factory in Vietnam, a worker stitches the final seams on a heavy-duty backpack.
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2 months ago |
voguebusiness.com | Sophie Benson
The proliferation of certifications, standards and regulations designed to clean up fashion’s supply chain and increase transparency has resulted in a costly, complex and inefficient reporting burden. Now, attention is turning to how to streamline the requirements to avoid stalling progress towards crucial climate targets. “There’s so much complexity, so many regulations and so much data that needs to be captured right now.
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McKinsey: “Sustainability has fallen off the agenda, with only 18% of fashion executives citing it as a top-three risk for growth in 2025, down from 29 percent in 2024.” If we frame everything through a lens of capital we miss the wider picture. What about the risk to humanity?
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