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Looking forward to participating in the Textile Exchange Conference 2024 in California. This year will be focused on making the case for building a resilient and sustainable fashion system. I will be showcasing our cases for biodiversity and clean energy access. I'll be speaking in Wednesday's session 'What Does "Nature Positive" Mean?' from 15:15 - 16:30 PST. This session will unpack what is 'nature positive' and explore how to embed this into businesses, including the tangible applications of Science-Based Targets for Nature. I will be sharing Pilio's work with our partners SAMA Verte as a Better Cotton Knowledge Partner to translate their biodiversity criteria into practice on the ground in cotton farming communities of the South Punjab, Pakistan. Looking forward to this conversation with Emma Gittoes Bunting from The Woolmark Company, Emma Dennis from Better Cotton and Phil Townsend from Primark, moderated by Lucianne Tonti. I'm excited to see new and familiar faces at the conference - if you're in Pasadena next week please don't hesitate to reach out! #TextileExchangeConference2024 #NaturePositive #Biodiversity

Pilio and SAMA^Verte are excited to announce our upcoming knowledge exchange event to explore Cotton Sustainability Insetting as a solution to meet sustainability and livelihood goals for fashion and textiles! Date: 27 November 2024 Location: Fashion and Textile Museum, London This event will bring together brands with industry conveners, standards, and platforms, including WWF - Pakistan, the International Platform for Insetting (IPI), Textile Exchange, and Better Cotton. Pilio and SAMA^Verte will be sharing learnings from our Cotton Sustainability Insetting programme focused on clean energy and biodiversity to achieve carbon, energy, nature, and livelihood outcomes in cotton farming communities of the South Punjab region of Pakistan. If you are a brand interested in exploring insetting as a solution to your sustainability goals and seeing how you could be involved in our programme in 2025, we'd love to have you at our event. To indicate your interest in attending, please fill out this form: https://lnkd.in/g_nr7xKf For questions, email ella@piliogroup.com or message Ella Frederiksen directly. We look forward to welcoming you in November! #CottonSustainabilityInsetting #Insetting #SustainableFashion

On World Cotton Day as we think about the solutions needed to create a sustainable future of cotton, we’re proud to give focus to our Cotton Sustainability Insetting solution we’re developing with partners SAMA^Verte!   Cotton is the world’s most used natural fibre, accounting for nearly 20% of all fibre production (Textile Exchange Materials Market Report 2024). Millions of farmers are responsible for farming this fibre and depend on the crop for their livelihoods. World Cotton Day serves as a platform to highlight critical needs in cotton such as improving farmer income and reducing emissions from production.    Our Cotton Sustainability Insetting solution aims to develop a green finance mechanism through which fashion and textile companies can directly improve the livelihoods of farmers and the landscapes cotton is grown in. This solution will enable investment in solar microgrids, clean cookstoves, social enterprises and community capacity building.    “Insetting unlocks an opportunity for fashion and textile companies to build climate, nature and social resilience through a collaborative business model that is co-designed to reflect sustainable development priorities of farmers as well as the corporate responsibility of fashion and textile companies. Our vision for insetting is about creating systems change, which requires mutually beneficial partnerships.” - Catherine Bottrill, Pilio CEO   Pilio and SAMA^Verte have been developing this solution over the past 3 years through funding from the Energy Catalyst award from Innovate UK, which is focused on the development of commercially viable solutions for clean and affordable energy access. We’ve taken a consortium approach to delivering the solution, with support from Better Cotton and WWF - Pakistan.    We’ve been fortunate to work with pioneering sustainable period product brand DAME | B Corp® as our first partner brand to deliver clean energy and women’s empowerment solutions aligned to their brand values in Pakistan. Over the next 2 years we’ll be building this pilot to scale through a market solution, aided by the support of multiple supply chain partners including Sapphire Textiles and Soorty Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.   “Through our collaboration with Pilio, we are looking to take the learnings achieved thus far to be able to scale this model on the ground in smallholder farmer communities of Pakistan. Our ambition is to have a solution that is commensurate with the challenges, taking it from pilot to scale.” - Ali Habib, SAMA^Verte CEO.    Get in contact with us if you would like to learn or be involved in this innovative work: https://lnkd.in/g9qzm6iS. #CottonSustainabilityInsetting #Insetting #SustainableFashion #WorldCottonDay2024

Across London Fashion Week 2024 the Pilio team had the opportunity to see exciting updates from brands and farmers we work with and gain an understanding of the state of sustainability in today’s fashion industry. 🏠 We started the week off strong at Priya Ahluwalia’s show, ‘Home Sweet Home.’ Through innovative design and continued commitment to using deadstock fabric, Ahluwalia embeds sustainability as a way of being. It’s great for Pilio to get to support designers to turn commitments into action. 🚀 At the RÆBURN 15 RETROSPECTIVE we were taken on a journey through the brand’s history as a sustainability pioneer in the industry. Like Ahluwalia, RÆBURN minimises waste and demonstrates how sustainability aids, rather than hinders creativity and excellence. 👕 We celebrated the opening of Tomorrow’s Wardrobe at the Design Museum, which envisioned what a sustainable fashion industry could look like in 2030. Ahluwalia was showcased, as well as our client Ponda, whom we’ve supported to understand the environmental impact of their use of biomaterials. Highlighted for their sustainable farming practices was Tamarisk Farm, from which we’ve sourced wool for our natural fibre innovation work. 🐑 Finally we visited Chilton Grounds Farm, where farmers Diana and Duncan farm heritage sheep and produce hand-dyed yarn. It was a great way to round out the week getting back to the roots of the fashion system where material fibres are grown. It’s inspiring to see these innovators meet fashion’s greatest material, production, and waste challenges. Our hope is for these to catalyse a wider transformation across the industry at large for a more sustainable and equitable fashion system. Stay up to date with Pilio’s work in sustainable fashion: https://lnkd.in/gxSX3JDc. #LondonFashionWeek2024 #SustainableFashion 

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Pilio is celebrating Heat Pump Week here in the UK! Heat pumps are essential to the decarbonisation of buildings and achieving the UK's 2050 net zero goal. By using electricity to transfer heat, they significantly reduce reliance on fossil fuels for heating and cooling, which account for a large share of building emissions. As the grid becomes greener, heat pumps offer an increasingly efficient and clean solution, cutting carbon emissions by 70% compared to traditional gas boilers currently and by 100% when the grid is decarbonised. The government's commitment to installing 600,000 heat pumps annually by 2028 highlights their critical role in reducing the carbon footprint of homes and commercial buildings across the UK. Read more about Heat Pump Week, access news and resources, and learn how you can be involved: https://lnkd.in/efQrvbWt #HeatPumpWeek2024 #HeatPumps #Decarbonisation #NetZero

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