Fashion CEO Agenda
The Fashion CEO Agenda is a guide to what every fashion leader needs to prioritise to future-proof their company outlining the most pressing issues and the biggest opportunities for socio-environmental impact and provides guidance on how to take action. Transcending this, the special edition Fashion CEO Agenda presents five pivotal opportunities for fashion executives and the industry at large to unlock transformative impact for people and planet.
What is the Fashion CEO Agenda?
The Fashion CEO Agenda is intended as a tool for executives of brands, retailers and producers, presenting five socio-environmental sustainability priorities the industry should focus on in order to secure prosperity for people and communities while working within planetary boundaries.
In a first for the publication, the Fashion CEO Agenda 2023 includes subsequent action areas for brands, retailers, and producers, which have been established through several years of stakeholder engagement and reinforced through GFA and UNEP’s global Fashion Industry Target Consultation. Although they are not exhaustive, the actions are believed to have reached a reasonable consensus across industry stakeholders and topical experts and be material and meaningful.
What is the Fashion CEO Agenda: Special Edition?
The special edition Fashion CEO Agenda 2024 presents 5 pivotal opportunities for fashion executives and the industry at large to unlock the next level towards our vision of achieving a net-positive fashion industry by 2050. The unlocks presented focus on challenging norms and amplifying efforts, and serve as a crucial inflection point for the industry to foster positive outcomes for both society and the environment:
- Operationalising Sustainability
- Redefining Growth
- Activating Consumers
- Prioritising People
- Mobilising Based On Materiality
Drawing from the five priorities of the Fashion CEO Agenda – Respectful and Secure Work Environments, Better Wage Systems, Resource Stewardship, Smart Material Choices, and Circular Systems – this special edition highlights five cross-cutting opportunities that will help achieve the next level of progress on these priorities, guided by the dynamic landscape of today’s industry. To unlock the next level of positive impact, the fashion industry must go beyond what the industry is actioning today necessitating a deeper understanding of interdependencies and system solutions. With this report, we aim to prepare the sector at large to spearhead the transformative change essential for a sector-wide transition to becoming Net-Positive.
The Priority Framework
The Fashion CEO Agenda highlights the imperative need for the coexistence of environmental and social sustainability as neither can be achieved without the other.
At the heart of the Fashion CEO Agenda, the most crucial environmental and social sustainability priorities offer clear guidance on where to focus efforts.
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Respectful and Secure Work Environments
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Better Wage Systems
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Resource Stewardship
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Smart Material Choices
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Circular Systems
2030 Fashion Sector Vision
Accompanying the Fashion CEO Agenda is the 2030 Fashion Sector Vision, which presents where the sector at large should be in relation to each priority area within seven years’ time – a critical milestone on the road to net positive by 2050. It is important to acknowledge that companies’ ability to deliver on these actions, require significant effort, investment, and multi-stakeholder action, with the support of governments and financial institutions in the creation of an enabling environment to scale industry transformation, while empowering citizens and consumers.
Explore the recent reports
The Fashion CEO Agenda 2024: Special Edition
Developed for fashion leaders, this special edition Fashion CEO Agenda presents five pivotal opportunities for fashion executives and the industry at large to unlock transformative impact for people and planet.
Fashion CEO Agenda 2023
Developed for executives of fashion brands, retailers, and producers, the Fashion CEO Agenda is a succinct checklist to support in establishing and implementing leadership strategies for achieving a net positive fashion sector.
GFA Monitor
To further support all actors in taking action, regardless of where they are in their journey and their position in the value chain, GFA published its second GFA Monitor report in 2023. The GFA Monitor has two main objectives: presenting industry progress on the five sustainability priorities – utilising insights and milestones tested in the Fashion Industry Target Consultation – and offering a converged overview of proven existing tools, programmes, and best practices that can be applied today.
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Fashion CEO Agenda 2023
Developed for executives of fashion brands, retailers, and producers, the Fashion CEO Agenda is a succinct checklist to support in establishing and implementing leadership strategies for achieving a net positive fashion sector.
Fashion CEO Agenda 2021
This report shines light on social and environmental implications and intersections. It puts forward a vision statement for the fashion industry, striving for, ‘a thriving industry that creates prosperity for people and communities by working within
Fashion CEO Agenda 2020: Covid-19 Edition
Global Fashion Agenda and McKinsey & Company present research and a fact base to complement the priorities outlined in the CEO Agenda; which intend to guide and mobilise industry players in taking bold action on sustainability. This COVID-19 edition
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