From November 10 to 21, the Brazilian city of Belém will play host to the first United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP) to take place at the gateway to the Amazon rainforest. For the fashion sector — an industry whose footprint reaches deep into Amazonian ecosystems — the location provides a unique opportunity for accountability and transformation. This is where industrial exploitation, Indigenous land rights and ecological survival collide, and where the industry’s most destructive supply chain practices meet its most promising regenerative solutions.

The timing is critical. The planet has just passed its first major tipping point with widespread coral reef deaths, the US is quickly defunding and dismantling climate policy, and around the world, climate denial and disinformation a

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