Alpine Group – the end-to-end textile innovation and apparel manufacturing group with brand partners such as Lululemon, The North Face, Under Armour and Columbia – announced plans to join forces with fashion industry titans. This agreement with TrusTrace, The Apparel Institute, Keel Labs, Samata Pattinson (the Founder and CEO of Black Pearl) and Julia Gulatee (One Young World Climate Ambassador) will see Alpine host a first-of-its-kind panel at COP28 – the world’s most highly regarded gathering for climate action.
Taking place December 6th at 13.30 at the Climate Action Stage at the Sustainable Innovation Forum, “Beyond Aspirations: Taking Concrete Actions in the Fashion World” hosted by the Alpine Group, will bring fashion industry transformation to the forefront of global conversation by providing concrete, implementable strategies for fashion industry players to adopt sustainable practices.
Panelists will explore innovative technologies, green processes and next-gen materials that can drive significant reductions in carbon emissions throughout the supply chain to inspire action. Additionally, the panel will delve into the complex relationship between policy, regulation and consumer expectations amongst the growing concern of greenwashing in the fashion sector.
A key challenge in understanding and improving the impact of the fashion industry has been the lack of visibility into deeper tiers of the value chain, which has made it difficult to gather the validated data necessary to discover and manage ESG risk across full portfolios. However, scalable solutions do exist to enable brands and suppliers to collaborate and to facilitate funding for sustainable transformation.
Panellists will include:
• Moderator: Clare Woodford, Global Director, Impact and Engagement, Alpine Group
• Saravanan Parisutham, COO of TrusTrace
• Lewis Perkins, President of the Apparel Impact Institute
• Samata Pattinson, Founder and CEO, Black Pearl
• Julia Gulatee, One Young World, Climate Ambassador (Fashion Pact and formerly Chanel’s policy team)
• Aleks Gosiewski, Co-Founder and COO at Keel Labs
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