Nature Positive Fashion Supply Chain Management

COVID-19导致消费者对时装的需求减少，导致对棉花及羊毛等原材料的需求减少。销售额的急剧下降导致英国时装业供应链长期脆弱和紧张。COVID-19令英国时装业的渐进式可持续发展议程暂停，该行业在绿色供应链方面取得了重大进展。由于预算削减和休假，可持续性已被搁置一边。这种市场颠覆提供了一个独特的机会窗口，以提高供应链的透明度，并确保关键原材料的弹性长期供应，使英国时装业的寿命。基于自然的解决方案是保护，恢复和改善自然和农业土地管理的战略，具有成本效益地减少高达11 GtCO 2 e yr-1排放的潜力（= 100美元MgCO 2 e-1）（Griscom等人，2017年）。在大多数情况下，基于自然的解决方案还提供积极的生态、社会和经济回报（Dasgupta等人，2020; Seddon等人，2019年）。Pilio将使时装/纺织品行业能够将可持续性纳入正常的商业关键业务活动中，例如长期供应商关系和供应一致性。我们的创新是新颖的，因为它将使时装公司采取整体和系统的方法，通过为他们创造一种工具，既减少他们的碳足迹，又改善社会，他们赖以获取原材料的土地的生态恢复力。在该项目结束时，我们将试点一个SaaS平台，使时装/纺织行业能够过渡到净零碳和自然积极的供应链。

COVID-19 has caused reduced consumer demand for fashion, leading to a reduction in demand for raw materials such as cotton and wool. The dramatic decline in sales has resulted in prolonged fragility and tension in the British fashion industry's supply chains. COVID-19 has halted the progressive sustainability agenda in the British fashion industry, which was making substantial progress in greening their supply chain. Due to budget cuts and furloughs, sustainability has been sidelined. This market disruption offers a unique window of opportunity to improve supply chain transparency and secure a resilient long-term supply of critical raw materials for the longevity of the British fashion sector.Nature-based solutions are strategies to protect, restore and improve the management of natural and agricultural lands, with the potential to mitigate up to 11 GtCO2e yr-1 emissions cost effectively (= $100 MgCO2e-1) (Griscom et al., 2017). In most cases, nature-based solutions also provide positive ecological, social, and economic returns (Dasgupta et al., 2020; Seddon et al., 2019). Pilio will enable the fashion/textiles industry to incorporate sustainability into normal, commercially critical business activities such as long-term supplier relationships and consistency of supply.Our innovation is novel in that it will enable fashion companies to take a holistic and systems approach, by creating an instrument for them to both reduce their carbon footprint and improve the socio-ecological resilience of the lands they depend on for raw materials. By the end of this project, we will pilot a SaaS platform that enables the fashion/textile industry to transition to a net zero carbon and nature positive supply chain.