Sustainability

The textile industry is a giant. It influences not only our culture and aesthetics, but also our economy. For all the bright colours and fashionable styles the industry produces, it often leaves behind a grey shadow that manifests itself in the form of climate change. The growing production and consumption of textiles is driving the transgression of planetary boundaries (Planetary Boundaries).

Planetary Boundaries

The concept of Planetary Boundaries was developed to define a "safe operating field" for humanity on Earth. This theory identifies nine critical systems that affect the stability and resilience of our planet. Each of these boundaries is associated with a "threshold limit" that, if crossed, can lead to irreversible and often catastrophic changes in the functioning of the Earth system.

The idea of planetary boundaries was first put forward in 2009 by Johan Rockström and a team of international scientists and has been refined in further work (Rockström