New York legislation, which would hold the fashion industry to attentive sustainability standards, is getting support from various celebrities.
Actors Jane Fonda, Rosario Dawson, Leonardo DiCaprio and a host of other celebrities have come forward in this regard.
Jane Fonda said in a statement, “As a climate activist, I want to support the efforts to push major apparel and footwear brands to do what is needed to bring fashion in line with what climate science is saying: We must stop polluting the environment, cutting down forests, despoiling our oceans and creating forever waste.”
She further added that right now, the fashion industry has a larger carbon footprint than France, Germany and the UK combined and is on course to take up more than one-fourth of the carbon budget by 2050.
Cameron Diaz, Shailene Woodley, Nikki Reed, Meadow Walker, Andie MacDowell and Zooey Deschanel have also been supporting this legislation. The actors came together through the New Standard Institute, as part of a larger Act on Fashion Coalition.
It is worth mentioning here that the legislation in question is the Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act, which has begun advancing simultaneously in New York’s state Assembly and state Senate as A. 8352 and S. 7428, respectively.
The goal of the full bill is to require “fashion retail sellers and manufacturers to disclose environmental and social due diligence policies” while creating a community benefit fund to finance environmental justice projects.
If the measure becomes law, all fashion retailers and manufacturers that do business in New York and that have “annual worldwide gross receipts that exceed US $100 million” will need to disclose their “environmental and social due diligence policies, processes and outcomes,” as well as set targets for future improvement.
