Fashion's Future: The Sustainable Development Goals (FutureLearn)

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Fashion's Future: The Sustainable Development Goals (FutureLearn)

Explore the fashion industry’s impact on people and planet, what the Sustainable Development Goals are, and how they are linked. Learn about the link between fashion and the Sustainable Development Goals. The global fashion industry has an enormous social impact and ecological footprint. Many of us don’t understand how the clothes we wear every day affects the world around us.

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On this course, you will learn how clothes are made, how fashion supply chains work and the importance of responsible production and consumption. You’ll also look at how the fashion industry can have a more positive impact for people and planet.
Upon completing this course, you’ll be empowered with new knowledge and ideas to contribute towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through your own wardrobe.

What topics will you cover?

  • How the fashion industry works, how we interact with it and the impacts it has on people and planet
  • The Sustainable Development Goals and how they relate to the clothes we wear
  • Fair Trade/Ethical trade and why it is essential to international development and human rights
  • Global fashion supply chains, how they work and how they can have a more positive impact on people and planet
  • Gender equality, women’s empowerment and how it links to the clothes we wear
  • Decent work and economic growth, what this means in the global fashion industry and what we can do to support good working conditions
  • The environmental impacts of the clothes we wear and how we can support better conservation and protection of the planet and its natural resources

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

  • Explore your values and identify the principles that matter the most to you
  • Assess brands sustainability disclosure to better understand their efforts to improve their human rights and environmental impacts
  • Develop an understanding of global garment supply chains and the impacts they can have on people and the planet
  • Develop an understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals and how they relate to the clothes you wear
  • Debate how the fashion industry interlinks with the Sustainable Development Goals and how we can all help achieve them
  • Debate approaches to change
  • Collaborate to build strategies for change
  • Engage your local MP’s to ask them to use their positions to fight for polices that matter to you
  • Engage brands to improve their supply chains and share more information on their commitments, goals and progress around their human rights and environmental impacts
  • Engage your colleagues, friends, family and peers in driving forward a fashion industry that supports people, planet, profits and creativity in equal measure
  • Contribute to meaningful dialogue and a better fashion industry for all
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