About En Mode Climat:
En Mode Climat brings together more than 600 companies (ethical brands, French manufacturers) and other players in the textile industry, calling for more ambitious environmental legislation for the sector, to help meet the climate objectives of the Paris Agreement.
Our contribution:
En Mode Climat supports the methodology for calculating the environmental impact proposed by the French government, and welcomes the advances it makes compared with the methods currently being considered at European level.
More specifically, we consider the proposed additions to the PEFCR methodology to be crucial to support our businesses (textile industry and brands) in the transformation of their model.
These additions take into account:
- The commercial practices of fast fashion through the ‘extrinsic’ sustainability coefficient, the three components of which (width of range, encouragement to repair and display of the garment's traceability), although not exhaustive, seem to us to be relevant in characterising fast fashion.
- The specific impacts of microfibers from polyester and other synthetic materials, whose persistence in the ecosystems and in the human body is harmful in itself, in addition to their toxicity.
- The environmental benefits of organic and/or local materials, through the choice of a high weighting of the ecotoxicity criterion in the LCA, and through updated inventory data for wool.
By comparison, the many simulations we have carried out show the extent to which the current PEF technical framework underestimates the impact of fast fashion and synthetic fibers ; we are very concerned about these biases, because they risk penalizing and undermining the choices made by those most committed to relocation, sobriety and eco-design.
The proposed methodology, though not yet perfect, could thus decisively contribute to improve the PEFCR for textile.
