Stella McCartney Warns Everything Is at Stake | BoF VOICES
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The Business of Fashion
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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The designer has always made sustainability practices her business priority. Now, with a new UN charter for climate action, she is hoping other fashion companies will follow in her footsteps.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and welcome to the BOF podcast. |
| 0:09.5 | This week, we're sharing another amazing talk from Voices 2018. |
| 0:14.0 | Now, every year at Voices, we give a special award to someone who's using their platform in fashion to have an impact on the wider world. |
| 0:22.6 | And this year, we chose Stella McCartney. |
| 0:25.6 | Of course, Stella has been a pioneer in furthering the understanding, awareness, and implementation |
| 0:31.7 | of an idea around sustainable fashion. |
| 0:34.6 | But the problem has been far from solved. |
| 0:36.7 | And this year, Stella introduced to us |
| 0:38.9 | the fashion industry charter for climate change. A UN report released earlier in 2018, projected that |
| 0:45.8 | emissions of greenhouse gases will fall woefully short of the goals set in the Paris Climate Agreement |
| 0:52.1 | in 2015. Fashion has its part to play in turning this |
| 0:55.7 | crisis around. So we were proud to unveil this new charter developed by the United Nations |
| 1:01.1 | at Voices 2018. The new charter was officially launched at COP 24 on December 10th, but we had a preview |
| 1:08.2 | of what it contains and why it is of critical importance that |
| 1:12.0 | fashion businesses sign on to it now. So here's Stella McCartney in conversation with Lucy |
| 1:17.7 | Siegel at Voices 2018 to discuss the fashion industry charter for climate change. |
| 1:25.3 | So we are virtually on the eve of COP 24, and we traditionally say these are historic |
| 1:33.1 | occasions, but it feels like monumental would be more appropriate. |
| 1:37.1 | We have a job to do, as Imran's just articulated, and what we know is when the political |
| 1:43.1 | dialogue starts is that often we see policymakers, politicians, negotiating with the evidence. |
| 1:51.9 | Well, you can't negotiate with this science. It needs to inform what we do. And I'm really delighted that we have a true leader here who knows you don't negotiate with the science, but you use it to form a consolidated response that closes the gap between the ambition that we need for future generations, because that's what's at stake here here and what our response as an industry. |
| 2:20.2 | So let's hear from Stella McCartney, who's basically been doing this for 17 years, |
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