In our next chapter of SDG Decoded, in which we learn how the denim community is tackling the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, we turn our attention to SDG #7 – Affordable and Clean Energy. According to the UN, about 800 million people in this world still...
About 400 million people lack basic healthcare, according to the United Nations Development Programme, while 40 percent fail to have social protection. Ensuring access to physical and mental healthcare is the driving force behind Sustainable Development Goal #3 – Good Health & Well-Being. For our next...
As we continue through our SDG Decoded series, in which we tap the denim industry to see how they’re tackling the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, we found it was necessary to return to SDG #6. Given the role water plays in denim dyeing and washing,...
As we continue through our SDG Decoded series, in which we tap the denim industry to see how they’re tackling the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, we found it was necessary to return to SDG #6. Given the role water plays in denim dyeing and washing,...
No man is an island, and certainly no denim company can be in pursuit of a meaningful sustainability mission alone. In the next segment of SDG Decoded, we’re learning how companies are working in tandem to pursue all the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Here, we...
In a development that was wholly unsurprising, we received so many plans from denim companies about Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #12 that we had to break up the responses into two separate posts for the SDG Decoded series. Here we chat with Lucky, Boyish, Saitex, Guess...
According to the United Nations Development Programme, more than half of the world population currently lives in cities, making renewable energy and technological innovation extremely crucial to advancing sustainability. In our next edition of SDG Decoded, we’re digging into how the denim world is progressing with...
In our next edition of SDG Decoded, in which we measure the ways the denim industry is delivering on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, we’re turning our attention to #13: Climate Action. Whether it’s through reducing energy usage or aggressive recycling initiatives, all of the companies...
As we found with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #6 in the first installment of SDG Decoded, SDG #12 – Responsible Consumption & Production – is among the most crucial priorities within the denim community. Determined to undo decades of harmful production, today’s designers and makers are...
In the first installment of SDG Decoded—in which Carved in Blue checks-in with the denim industry to gauge and share progress on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals—we’re bringing the focus to Goal #6: Clean Water & Sanitation. Not surprisingly, this particular SDG is relevant to many...
As we pass the four-year mark on the establishment of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it’s the perfect time to see how far we’ve come and where we’re heading in our quest for sustainable denim. Adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic...