Gap widens between fashion’s climate progress and global targets

Textile Exchange's annual report, which tracks total production volumes for all fibre markets and models greenhouse gas emissions for fashion, home textiles, and footwear shows there was record-breaking material production in 2024. It reached approximately 132m tonnes in 2024 for all markets (equivalent to four tonnes of fibre being produced every second) and fueled an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. The latest modelling also suggests greenhouse gas emissions associated with the total production of ...