Attention: China'S Textile And Garment Industry Has Become The First Industry To Respond To The Carbon Neutral Target

On September 22, President Xi Jinping announced that China would enhance its national independent contribution, adopt more effective policies and measures, strive to reach the peak of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060.

On September 23, Shanghai, China, the social responsibility Office of the China Textile Industry Federation held the 2020 China sustainable fashion week Shanghai season with the theme of "climate action fashion love nature, youaction @ fashion for nature". As a result, China's textile and garment industry became the first industry to respond to President Xi Jinping's announcement of China's carbon neutral target at the UN General Assembly on September 22. The social responsibility Office of China Textile Industry Federation, together with China Textile Information Center, Lanjing group, textile light science and technology education foundation, H & M company, Jinba men's wear, WWF, HSBC, and climate innovation fund of China Green Carbon Sink foundation, set up nearly 700 square meters in chic and Intertextile For more than 4000 exhibitors and 150000 professional audiences, mico continued to hold a series of interactive activities, including fashion cycle exhibition, sustainable material brand theme exhibition, greenhub technology green exhibition, group dance flash of earth temperature change, and recruitment of millions of fashion climate action messengers, which annotated the three major positioning of "technology", "fashion" and "green" in China's textile and garment industry Achievements of ecological civilization construction in China's textile and garment industry.

Textile and garment industry is an industry that links consumption and production extensively. In 2017 China sustainable fashion week, China Textile Industry Federation launched carbon management innovation 2020 action. Sun Ruizhe, President of China Textile Industry Federation, announced to promote textile and garment industry to formulate a green and low-carbon development transformation roadmap and promote 2050 zero carbon industry, which is China's first to promote industrial zero carbon Target industry.

In 2018, China Textile Industry Federation, 29 global brands and enterprises, and 10 supporting organizations launched the climate action charter for fashion industry under the guidance of UNFCCC United Nations Framework Committee on climate change. A number of Chinese enterprises including CHENFENG group, Jinba men's wear group and Shengtai Group signed the charter one after another to join in the global governance of climate change, committed to 2050 net zero carbon of global fashion industry At the same time, China's textile industry and China's textile industry should cooperate to achieve the goal of emission reduction.

The "climate action - fashion for nature" series of activities is a wonderful performance of green recovery of China's textile and clothing industry, and will become a sustainable fashion activity in the post epidemic era. The static exhibition mainly includes three parts: greenhub technology innovation and fashion future, sustainable material brand exhibition and Shanghai tour exhibition of "Chinese young designers' clothing re creation".

Market oriented green innovation will become the decisive factor for the transformation and upgrading of the industry and the realization of textile power. Therefore, the 2020 Shenzhen season of China sustainable fashion week specially displayed 10 textile light green technology achievements and their green performance in the collection of new technology (achievements) promotion projects of textile industry in 2014-2019.

With the clothing application of natural wood pulp fiber Tencel series of Lanjing group and recycled material clothing of H & M group as the main exhibits, this paper shows the audience a variety of innovative possibilities of textile industry from material end to nature.

Hu Jian, senior vice president of Lanjing group, said in an interview that responsibility is one of the necessary qualities of a leader. Over the past 80 years, the Austrian Lanjing group has been committed to comprehensive sustainable development. It is a global sustainable fashion leader that provides environmental protection and degradable fiber for the global fashion industry in a natural way, and is willing to join hands with many Chinese partners to innovate and accumulate Value cooperation for climate action.

Dai Fuqiang, commercial director of China Textile Business Department of Lanjing group, said that since the outbreak of the epidemic, Lanjing's performance in China has not been greatly affected. The explosive growth of Lanjing's Tiansi? Series of home textile bedding products, underwear and home sports products shows that Chinese consumers highly recognize Lanjing's environmental protection products, which further proves that only sustainable development can have a future.

The exhibition works are 30 pieces of clothing re-engineering works displayed in the "cop25 show of clothing recycling competition". They are originated from the social responsibility Office of China Textile Industry Federation, the fashion climate innovation special fund of China Green Carbon Sink foundation and Jinba men's wear. In October 2019, 122 pieces of recycled clothing works were from Donghua University, Shanghai Shanda college, Zhejiang University of technology and Zhejiang science and technology 73 sets of original and reconstituted clothing works provided by the designers of the Institute, Beijing Institute of fashion, Academy of fine arts of Tsinghua University and Central Academy of fine arts were selected.

In his 2020 New Year's address, UN Secretary General Guterres said that the world is entering 2020 with "uncertainty and instability", Young people from all over the world are the "biggest source" that the world hopes for. This activity shows the ideas and creativity of Chinese youth in the direction of climate action. It has been exhibited at the headquarters of Beijing Lining company and Shenzhen Dawan District international fabric Expo. This exhibition is the third stop of the tour in 2020, and there are also original authors to exchange views.

Global warming, continuous fires in Australia and California are difficult to extinguish, large-scale degradation of marine coral reefs, and frequent extreme natural disasters such as rainstorms and floods are another natural crisis facing mankind in the new epidemic.

In order to arouse the public's awareness of the climate change crisis, 10 Black dancers shuttled back and forth in the exhibition hall like fairies. They showed the dramatic changes of China's surface temperature from 1901 to 2019 with smart dances and umbrellas. The warm atmosphere ignited the audience's attention to the climate crisis. At the same time, the campaign launched the recruitment of millions of climate envoys to guide people to change their production and consumption patterns and participate in climate action together.

Yan Yan, director of social responsibility Office of China Textile Industry Federation and deputy director of China Textile Information Center

Yan Yan, director of the social responsibility Office of the China Textile Industry Federation and deputy director of the China Textile Information Center, said: as President Xi Jinping pointed out at the 2015 Paris summit on climate change, "it is not others who want us to do it, but we do it ourselves.". China's textile and clothing industry, as the first consumer industry to promote the industry's overall climate action, is also based on this concept of industrial responsibility. This 2020 China sustainable fashion week takes "climate action" as its main theme. It is the so-called "never forgetting" that there will be echoes. It is just at the right time to demonstrate the determination and confidence of China's fashion industry in achieving the 2030 greenhouse gas peak action and the 2060 climate target.