Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network Launches, Supports SDGs

A newly minted platform, the Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network, has officially launched — and its virtual, collaborative community is driven by the fashion and lifestyle industries, as both sectors sit in positions of power and are poised to help facilitate positive change at a global scale. Together, the industries’ extensive reach creates an opportunity to engage on the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly at the present moment as they navigate the climate crisis and post-pandemic recovery. The Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network was created for industry stakeholders, governments and NGOs to share sustainable solutions and report progress to help accelerate and contribute to delivering the SDGs. Addressing global issues such as eliminating poverty, hunger, inequalities and climate change reversal, the SDGs “serve as the blueprint for a shared global vision” to help move the needle on these challenges. The launch is an evolution of the Conscious Fashion Campaign, an initiative in partnership with the United Nations Office for Partnerships that blends advocacy, education and partnership development to support and champion solutions for sustainable innovation in the industry. Collectively, both actors have hosted more than 800 annual events in 40 countries, have welcomed 12.2 million industry attendees, and 136,000 fashion, textile

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