Fashioning Rio 20 - change the world through fashion?

Gucci, H & M, Katharine Hamnett, Novozymes andthe Danish Minister for Climate and Energy among the speakers at the Rio Summit by Danish fashion 20 Fashion Institute are organized. The event led by Denmark setting presents innovative solutions for sustainable development to the front of the global fashion industry. The fashion industry, one of the most polluting and resource-intensive industries in the world, uses large amounts of water and energy. Both the production of clothing and how we use the clothes have a huge impact on our climate. Laundry, for example at 30 ° instead of 40 ° is simply a European level, average annual savings equal to the energy consumption of the whole of Ireland. Both industry and consumers, in other words, have a strong influence. According to the Danish Minister for Climate, Energy and Building Lidegaard Martin, one of the things that the initiative of the fashion industry so interesting is the possibility it offers to articulate the options consumers should proactively to climate change: "The fashion industry is very clear that to understand people and understand. The climate debate tends to be only technical measures such as turbines and pumps, but the way it is more tangible for the individual. The fashion industry has an impact on society currents and allow other industries, so the fashion industry is unique when it comes to spread sustainable change for the rest of society. Meanwhile, the mode in terms of focusing on our use and its impact on the climate of great . " Next stop: Rio As a follow-up of the top of the world's largest fashion sustainable, Copenhagen Fashion Summit last month in Copenhagen, run the Danish Institute of Fashion is an official event in the next United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio +20, in collaboration with the Danish Ministry of Climate, energy and construction. The speakers include international fashion houses such as Gucci, Katharine Hamnett and H & M, and other members of the lending industry, with specific solutions to the problems the industry faces, to Novozymes for, example. The Director of the Danish Institute of Fashion, Eva Kruse, who opened the event in Rio wants to see the profile of the green Denmark is known for many years, spread in the fashion industry. He explains: "We are proud that Denmark is the way for the development of a sector more sustainable and socially responsible world We offer among other things, two important initiatives pave with us in Rio. One of the recommendations of the fashion industry is, how can consumers be involved in the change in the fashion industry and the other is the first industry-specific code of conduct initiative as part of the program of the United Nations Global Compact. Both initiatives are products of a process led Danish international has significant global perspective and can be a measure of how governments, industry and communities to take the action in the future be. " The Danish fashion event at the Institute for Rio +20 summit to be held 18th June 2012 in Rio de 09.00 bis 12.30 clock will be at the Windsor Barra Hotel.