Sustainability, Business Ethics, and Fashion Industry Strategies

This report analyzes the fashion industry's impact and explores sustainable strategies to achieve UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It highlights the industry's global presence and its potential to adopt practices like second-hand shopping, on-demand clothing, ethical fashion, and upcycling. The report focuses on SDG 12, emphasizing responsible resource use and waste reduction through reuse, recycling, prevention, and reduction. It proposes an initiative to promote sustainable production strategies, evaluating the importance of transforming the fashion industry, identifying implementation methods, and analyzing how this transformation contributes to sustainable consumption and production patterns. The report addresses the environmental concerns associated with the fashion industry, noting its significant pollution contribution due to fiber production, garment manufacturing, and crop usage, particularly the high carbon emissions from polyester fibers.

Sustainability and
Business Ethics

Introduction to fashion industry
The fashion industry was established for market, design, footwear,
manufacture, accessories and sell clothes.
The fashion industry has become global for certain in the early
2000s.
The fashion industry can adopt the sustainable practices that are
able to help it achieve the SDGs goal.
The first strategy can be the second hand shopping that is the
trending fashion of the time.
Second strategy can be of on demand and custom clothing.
The third strategy can be used fair and ethical fashion.
The fourth strategy can be of redesign, repair and upcycle fashion.

UN Sustainable Development goals
considered
The 12th goal is implemented in the fashion industry. The
fashion industry needs to adopt the goal for using the
resources carefully and eliminating the waste by reusing,
recycling, prevention and reduction.

Initiative proposal
Aim: To propose use of sustainable production strategies in Fashion industry
Research objective:
 To evaluate importance of transforming fashion industry.
 To identify ways in which sustainable production strategies will be
implemented in fashion industry.
 To analyse ways in which transformation of fashion industry will help in
achievement of sustainable consumption and production pattern goal.
Research questions:
 How to evaluate the importance of transforming fashion industry?
 Ways in which the sustainable strategies can be implemented in the fashion
industry?
 How will the transformation of the fashion industry help in achieving the
sustainable development goal?

Why chosen this industry?
The fashion industry is the one of the most polluting
industry in world.
The distribution as well as production of the fibres,
garments and crops are being used in the fashion industry
add on to the pollution in the air, water and soil.
The fibres used in the fashion industry are most of the
time polyester that emit two to three times more carbon
than carbon.