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  • Global Change Award 2025 Winners presented

    Ten bold ideas to decarbonise fashion: meet the GCA 2025 winners

    The H&M Foundation has announced the ten winners of the Global Change Award 2025 – early-stage innovations with the potential to halve fashion’s emissions every decade. Each winner receives €200K and joins a yearlong programme focused on systems thinking, personal growth and scaling impact for people and planet.

  • Fernanda Drumond, Head of Collective Action at the H&M Foundation, shares her insights and reflections about why a just transition is the only way forward for the fashion and textile industry.

    Why fashion’s future must be fair – the case for just transition

    As the textile industry races to decarbonise, digitalise, and redefine itself through circularity, we face a critical question: will this transformation be fair for the people and communities most affected by it? That’s where just transition comes in – a concept that ensures that climate action and social justice go hand-in-hand.
    Why this matters – and what we’ll unpack
    A just transition is

  • Claire Bergkamp, Textile Exchange and Annie Lindmark, H&M Foundation, join forces to spotlight how early-stage innovation – and the changemakers behind it – can drive deep decarbonisation across the textile industry.

    Why changemakers are key to transforming fashion

    Annie Lindmark, H&M Foundation, and Claire Bergkamp, Textile Exchange, explore why changemakers – not just ideas – are key to transforming fashion. The Global Change Award backs bold changemakers with early-stage ideas tackling emissions, helping reimagine a system where fashion is decarbonised while promoting the wellbeing of both people and planet.

  • How a new System Map can guide the industry towards a net-zero future

    How a new System Map can guide the industry towards a net-zero future

    The System Map has been launched to guide the textile industry towards decarbonisation, facilitating collaboration among stakeholders. It encourages reflection on roles and systemic change, aiming for a net-zero future through innovative dialogue and shared insights within the value chain.

  • The Fashion ReModel: Making money without making more clothes

    The Fashion ReModel: Making money without making more clothes

    H&M Foundation supports The Fashion ReModel with 16,5 million SEK. The project redefines revenue in fashion through rental, repair, resale, and remake practices, promoting circular business models. Led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, it aims to decouple income from new garment production, fostering industry-wide transformation.

  • H&M Foundation and SEEDS unite for resilient communities in India

    H&M Foundation and SEEDS unite for resilient communities in India

    The H&M Foundation partners with SEEDS to enhance disaster resilience in vulnerable Indian communities. This three-year initiative, funded with SEK 7,500,000, focuses on emergency relief, long-term recovery, and sustainable development, empowering affected groups to better withstand future challenges.

  • From awareness to action – a new guide for climate communicators

    From awareness to action – a new guide for climate communicators

    A new guide, "Pop Culture: Bursting the Climate Communications Bubble," aids climate communicators in using cultural narratives to inspire action. Developed by New Zero World with support from the H&M Foundation, it emphasises storytelling to bridge the gap between awareness and action on climate change.

  • Urgent action needed to decarbonise textile industry report finds

    Urgent action needed to decarbonise textile industry report finds

    A groundbreaking report by Circle Economy, funded by the H&M Foundation, emphasises urgent action for the textile industry to enhance circularity and reduce its environmental impact through recycling, reuse, and sustainable practices to ensure a more sustainable future for the sector.

  • Global Change Award 2025 Innovating for a NetZero Textile Industry

    Global Change Award 2025 Innovating for a NetZero Textile Industry

    The H&M Foundation has launched a new Global Change Award to accelerate innovation towards a net-zero textile industry by 2050. The award seeks transformative ideas for reducing emissions, emphasising a just transition and fostering collaboration among various industry stakeholders.

  • Nine startups awarded for boosting Inclusive Circularity

    Nine startups awarded for boosting Inclusive Circularity

    Nine Indian startups received recognition for their innovative solutions enhancing inclusive circularity, transforming waste into value, and providing social upliftment through job creation and empowerment. The initiative, supported by H&M Foundation through Saamuhika Shakti, focuses on environmental sustainability and social responsibility in the textile industry.

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