Online Course in Fashion's Future and It's Relation with the Sustainable Development Goals
- English
- With Certificate
Tutor Name
Future Learn
About the Course
Future learn website invites you to an online course that will learn you the link between fashion and the sustainable development goals. The global fashion industry has an enormous social impact and ecological footprint. Many peoples don’t understand how the clothes they wear every day affects the world around them. 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 on people and the planet. Upon completing this course, you’ll be empowered with new knowledge and ideas to contribute towards achieving sustainable development goals through your own wardrobe.
Eligibility Criteria:
This course is for anyone wanting to learn more about the fashion industry, fair trade, international development, and sustainable development goals. This includes fashion professionals or students and activists interested in environmental protection and sustainable consumption.
Main Topics of the Course:
- How the fashion industry works, how peoples interact with it and the impacts it has on people and planet
- The sustainable development goals and how they relate to the clothes you 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 you wear.
- Decent work and economic growth, what this means in the global fashion industry and what you can do to support good working conditions.
- The environmental impacts of the clothes you wear and how you can support better conservation and protection of the planet and its natural resources.
What Will You Achieve through this Course?
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 brand's 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 you can all help achieve them.
- Debate approaches to change.
- Collaborate to build strategies for change.
- Engage your local MPs to request 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 to drive forward a fashion industry that supports people, planet, profits and creativity in equal measure.
- Contribute to meaningful dialogue and better fashion industry for all.
About the Provider of the Course:
Fashion revolution is a global movement campaigning for systemic reform of the fashion industry with a focus on the need for greater transparency and sustainability.
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