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• FD: ASN Impact Investors sells all investments in clothing companies

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  • Climate & environment,
  • Funds,
  • Investment

  

  FD: ASN Impact Investors sells all investments in clothing companies

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Funds,
  • Investment

  20 Aug 2024

  The general public then realised that many employees in the supply chains of large fashion houses have to work in appalling conditions.
  The reason the investor is getting out now is that many clothing companies today have to compete with cheap ultra fast fashion competitors like the Chinese company Shein, and therefore take fewer […]

  

  Written by:

  • Marceline Bresson, FD

• UN-backed global consultation on how to make fashion industry net-positive launched

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  • Climate & environment

  

  UN-backed global consultation on how to make fashion industry net-positive launched

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  21 Nov 2022

  The Fashion Industry Target Consultation, an initiative by United Nations Environment Programme and Global Fashion Agenda is inviting stakeholders across the fashion value chain to share insights on how to meet climate goals.

  

  Written by:

  • Karolina Adamkiewicz

• €3mn impact investment in platform for vintage designer fashion

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  • Social enterprise

  

  €3mn impact investment in platform for vintage designer fashion

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  • Social enterprise

  13 Sep 2021

  Dutch impact investors have spied an opportunity to take sustainable fashion to the next level. Amsterdam-based platform The Next Closet (TNC) raised €3mn in growth capital last week.

  

  Written by:

  • Christian Nielsen

• Dutch investment fund takes up the fight against fast fashion

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  • Climate & environment,
  • Social impact

  

  Dutch investment fund takes up the fight against fast fashion

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Social impact

  20 Jul 2021

  A growing demand for sustainable fashion prompts brands and retailers to change the way they work. The Good Fashion Fund wants to give manufacturers access to capital and expertise to scale up the new way of making clothes.

  

  Written by:

  • Sara Nkwe Assarsson

• Industry hails launch of the CTI Fashion Initiative

  Posted in category:

  • Circular economy,
  • Climate & environment

  

  Industry hails launch of the CTI Fashion Initiative

  Posted in category:

  • Circular economy,
  • Climate & environment

  14 Jul 2023

  The growing problem of fashion waste affects our climate, ecosystems, and health. The textile and fashion industry is looking for ‘circular solutions’, and fast.

  

  Written by:

  • Christian Nielsen

• In depth: Efforts to transform the fashion sector remain underfunded but opportunities abound

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  • Climate & environment,
  • Social impact

  

  In depth: Efforts to transform the fashion sector remain underfunded but opportunities abound

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Social impact

  27 Jun 2022

  Experts from the Good Fashion Fund, Fashion for Good, Laudes Foundation and Apparel Impact Institute talk to Impact Investor about breaking the barriers to investment and why the opportunities should not be ignored

  

  Written by:

  • Karolina Adamkiewicz

• Fashion-focused carbon emissions software firm raises $15m

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  • Climate & environment,
  • Venture capital

  

  Fashion-focused carbon emissions software firm raises $15m

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Venture capital

  10 May 2024

  Paris-based Carbonfact has raised $15m (€14m) for its carbon management software aimed at helping the fashion industry to measure, reduce and report their carbon emissions.
  The series A fundraising round was led by existing investor Alven, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage companies. Start-up tech accelerator Y Combinator, which invested in Carbonfact at inception […]

  

  Written by:

  • Karolina Adamkiewicz

• Good Fashion Fund makes new investments in India and Bangladesh 

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  • Climate & environment,
  • Funds,
  • Social impact

  

  Good Fashion Fund makes new investments in India and Bangladesh 

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Funds,
  • Social impact

  11 Jul 2023

  The Good Fashion Fund (GFF) has announced the completion of two new investments, including its first investment in Bangladesh and its second in India.  
  The $19m (€17.3m) fund, which is managed by Amsterdam-based impact investment specialists Fount, has invested $1m in Progress Apparels, a Bangladeshi ready-made garment manufacturer producing woven bottoms for international brands and […]

  

  Written by:

  • Karolina Adamkiewicz

• Fighting inequality in fashion, one tip at a time

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  • Social enterprise

  

  Fighting inequality in fashion, one tip at a time

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  • Social enterprise

  27 Sep 2021

  The collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh in 2013, which killed more than 1,100 factory workers in the textile industry, was a crude wake-up call about working conditions in garment-producing countries and the true cost of cheap, seasonal fashion.
  A history of long hours, low wages and poor working conditions feed wider inequality […]

  

  Written by:

  • Christian Nielsen

• In brief: GIIN’s report shows resilience of financial inclusion investments during COVID-19

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  • Investment

  

  In brief: GIIN’s report shows resilience of financial inclusion investments during COVID-19

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  • Investment

  03 Feb 2023

  Plus: Tradeswomen platform TaskHer gets funding from impact investors | Fashion for Good’s initiative to boost US textile recycling

  

  Written by:

  • Impact Investor