CNMI-Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana joined COP28 Dubai with an event in the Italian Pavilion titled "Climate Change is not Cool: A Sustainability Message from the Fashion World."
This opportunity highlighted Italian luxury fashion's efforts in reducing environmental impact and meeting UN objectives. Organized by CNMI and the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion, the event aimed to showcase CNMI's commitments to sustainability, focusing on strategies like circular economy practices, new business models, and biodiversity protection initiatives within the fashion industry.
During the speech “From Competition to Cooperation”, Carlo Capasa, president of Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana emphasized the responsibility of Italy: “Italy has a great responsibility as the world's largest producer of luxury goods. Twelve years ago, when we started our sustainability roadmap, we set as primary values the sharing of knowledge and the active collaboration of all the major players in our industry to find and apply solutions to common objectives".
Capasa continued speaking to the audience and the vast number of people connected via streaming, noting that in 2011 the CNMI, the first of the international fashion chambers, created a working group with the managers of the associated companies, which is still carried out today, publishing lines guidance on various aspects of sustainability (eco-toxicological requirements, retail sustainability, social responsibility).
Carlo Capasa also anticipated the future developments of the CNMI roadmap on sustainability. First of all, Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana in collaboration with five important brands has just launched a study on the durability of high-end fashion products to define the "emotional durability" component that characterizes these products and which is at the center of the ongoing debate at the European Commission. Second, the work on the circular economy was carried out with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation which allowed the birth of the Re-Crea consortium participated by many of the Brands associated with CNMI. In third place is work on traceability and passport. Finally, the working group carried out in collaboration with the UN Ethical Fashion Initiative on the definition of specific ESG for the fashion industry to arrive at a certain and understandable assessment of the level of sustainability attributable to each brand and individual.
During the event, there were panels and interventions involving Tatiana Molcean, executive secretary UNECE and under-secretary general, Lindita Xhaferi-Salihu, business engagement lead UNFCCC, Simone Cipriani, head and founder of the Ethical Fashion Initiative of the ITC, Chairperson of the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion, Nicola Guerini, director general, Milano Fashion Institute, Paolo Naldini, director Cittadellarte-Michelangelo Pistoletto Foundation, Antonella Centra, Gucci's executive vice president, General Counsel, corporate affairs & sustainability Gucci, Andrea Rosso, sustainability Diesel ambassador, Pamela Bussi, sustainability & social responsibility senior manager Prada Group.
