Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) was proud to engage its community at Climate Week NYC 2025 through a high-impact programme of roundtables, events, and resource launches.

Highlights included the GFA Assembly at Nike NYHQ, a morning of action-focused roundtables on circularity, resale, climate finance, and post-industrial recycling, as well as the launch of new strategic resources. GFA also hosted a buzzing Policy Masterclass, facilitated connections between brands, industry financiers, and solution providers during Innovation Networking sessions in collaboration with Ralph Lauren, and co-hosted an intimate partner dinner with RE&UP to advance cross-sector collaboration.

Nasdaq Bell Ringing Ceremony

Spotlighting the impact work being done across sectors in this decisive decade, GFA was honoured to take part in the Nasdaq Bell Ringing Ceremony that marked the opening of Climate Week NYC 2025. Federica Marchionni, CEO, Thomas Tochtermann, Chairman, and Dana Schou, VP of Partnerships & Development, were joined by representatives of GFA’s new Strategic Partner, LVMH, as part of our ongoing mission to build alliances for a new era.

The event was followed by the Building the Future Summit hosted by Nasdaq Exchange and New System Ventures. The dialogues brought together forward-thinking leaders from interlinked industries to share perspectives on energy resilience, reindustrialisation, and new pathways for industry transformation.

GFA Assembly

Held at Nike’s NYHQ, the GFA Assembly brought together fashion leaders, policymakers, and sustainability advocates for a morning of action-focused roundtables and collaborative dialogues on the industry’s urgent sustainability challenges.

The curated roundtable programme included:

• The Apparel and Footwear Circularity System Map roundtable in collaboration with Nike
  Following the launch of the Apparel and Footwear Circularity System Map, the roundtable brought together industry leaders to reflect on the map’s findings, explore areas of duplicated effort, identify critical gaps, and discuss opportunities for pre-competitive collaboration to accelerate progress on circularity.

• Accelerating Climate Action Through Resale, with the Fashion Impact Toolkit in collaboration with Deloitte
  Drawing on insights from the Fashion Impact Toolkit, leaders shared strategies to scale resale business models, build consensus around industry priorities, and advance climate action through circular retail approaches.

• Circular Fashion Partnership: Turkey
  Industry leaders came together to strengthen post-industrial textile recycling initiatives, sharing insights on local opportunities and challenges while exploring strategies to enhance circular action in key manufacturing hubs and reinforce global collaboration.

• Driving Climate Finance: Actions to Build Corporate Value in collaboration with H&M Group
  Exploring innovative approaches to funding decarbonisation in fashion, participants examined how corporate value can unlock climate investment, shared strategies to align finance across stakeholders, and discussed pathways to scale sustainability initiatives across the industry.

Thank you to all participants for their contributions to these high-impact discussions.

 Policy Masterclass

The GFA Policy Masterclass brought together a full room for a timely dialogue on fashion’s fast-moving policy landscape. The discussion covered California’s Responsible Textile Recovery Act, new EPR frameworks in the EU, and the revision of the Waste Framework Directive—addressing fragmented regulations and exploring opportunities to bring greater clarity for producers. Earlier this week, the GFA Assembly also explored the key topic of EPR.

Speakers included: Federica Marchionni, CEO, GFA, Chelsea Murtha, Senior Director of Sustainability, American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA), Dennis Nobelius, CEO, Syre, Rachel Van Metre Kibbe, Founder and CEO, American Circular Textiles, and María Luisa Martínez Díez, VP, Public Affairs, GFA.

Innovation Networking

GFA and Strategic Partner Ralph Lauren brought together industry peers for an Innovation Networking session at the Climate and Nature Studio.

With the aim of supporting the adoption of solutions across the fashion industry, the event featured a series of strategic meetings connecting brands, financiers, and solution providers to foster collaboration.

Join us at Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition – the heart of sustainability in fashion – on 5-7 May 2026. Experience three days of agenda-setting dialogue, action-fuelled networking, and inspiring solutions shaping the future of fashion.

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