‘It’s the industry’s dirty secret’: why fashion’s oversupply problem is an environmental disaster

Shouldering the burden … a mountain of waste at the Kpone landfill site in Tema, Ghana. Photograph: Nipah Dennis/Bloomberg/Getty Images

As many as 40% of clothes made each year – 60bn garments – are not sold. Experts say tackling such obscene waste will require radical changes in production – and legislation

o one knows exactly how many coats, jeans, T-shirts and trainers are produced every year, which means no one knows how many garments remain unsold in warehouses, destined for landfill or destruction.

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‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from credit schemes

The Kariba conservation project in Zimbabwe covers an area almost the size of Puerto Rico. Photograph: Annie Mpalume/The Guardian

Carbon schemes are touted as a way to transfer billions in climate finance to the developing world – but people at the Kariba project in Zimbabwe say most of the profits never arrive

Patrick Greenfield and Nyasha Chingono in Kariba

n the districts surrounding Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe, most people have little idea their villages were at the centre of a multimillion-dollar carbon boom.… Read the rest

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