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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.
Measure is part of package aimed at limiting pollution associated with cheap, imported clothes
France’s lower house of parliament has backed a string of measures to make low-cost fast fashion, especially items from Chinese mass producers, less attractive to buyers.
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
Thunderstorm conditions extending from Mackay in Queensland to Melbourne, with BoM warning weather may change quickly
Last weekend, a low-pressure system that had developed over the Gulf of Mexico tracked north-east across the Florida peninsula.