Has the Global Fashion Agenda succeeded in making the fashion industry more sustainable?

It has been one year since the Global Fashion Agenda (GFA), a leadership forum aiming to drive the change towards a more sustainable fashion industry, initiated its Call to Action during the 2017 Copenhagen Fashion Summit, the world's largest sustainability conference. The GFA encouraged every single fashion brand and retailer present to begin taking more concrete steps towards sustainable fashion future by signing a commitment to accelerate the transition to a circular system. Since then 93 fashion companies, representing 207 brands, or 12 percent of the global fashion market. Within this commitment, the GFA has outlined four immediate actions points needed to speed up the shift to a circular fashion system and signatories set voluntary targets in one or more of these points to reach by 2020. The companies have set more than 200 goals, which range from implementing design strategies for recyclability to increasing the share of garments made from recycled post-consumer textile fibres, and will annually report on the progress made towards achieving their goals.