The H&M Foundation, the non -profit organization of the Persson family, founder: Inside of the fashion retailer H&M, has announced the ten winners: inside of the Global Change Award (GCA) 2025. These are future -oriented innovations that should “redesign the fashion industry”. The range ranges from clean tech recycling in China to jointly worn circular economy in Ghana.
With the annual award, “groundbreaking ideas for decarbonizing the fashion industry” are to be put into the spotlight. The focus is on promoting fashion innovations in the early phase to accelerate the way of the industry towards the net zero.
The winners: inside 2025 come from all over the world, including from Great Britain, Germany, India, China, Ghana, Sweden and Bangladesh. They cover innovations that concentrate on responsible production, sustainable materials and processes, careful consumption and “wildcards” – for “unexpected, overarching or catalytic ideas”.
Each: R of this year’s winner: Inside, it has set itself the goal of reducing the greenhouse gas emissions of the industry every decade by half and reaching net zero by 2050, “in a way that is fair for humans and the planet”. The ideas include intelligent recycling and heat pumps that are supposed to replace outdated gas and oil steam boilers, as well as radically including circulatory systems.
“The GCA is more than just about certain innovations. It is about thinking up the entire fashion system. A single innovation will not save fashion – we have to shake the foundations and change the way we develop innovations,” said Annie Lindmark, program director of the H&M Foundation. “That is why we support brave thinkers: inside at the very beginning of their trip. These changemaker: Inside, not only solve problems, they question outdated systems and show us what a new future could look like. It is no longer just to optimize, but to transform.”
All winners: In the amount of 200,000 euros and take part in the one-year “hands-on” GCA Changemaker program, which offers a mixture of “promoting innovation, system thinking and personal growth”.
The ten winners: inside the Global Change Award 2025
In the area of sustainable materials and processes, the British company Brilliant Dyes was awarded for its work to use the power of cyanobacteria, with which it produces biodegradable dyes with a low -energy extraction method. In addition, there is the German start-up circulator with its nyloop technology, the high-quality nylon from mixed textile waste and thus closes the circulation of one of the most frequently used materials in fashion, as well as a blunt story from India, which produces uncrude, a plastic-free sole made of bio-based and recycled materials, the “a clean break with a clean break fossil shoes ”. In this category, the decarbonization Lab from Bangladesh, a special research and development area that develops low-emission processes with a focus on textile treatments and dyeing techniques, are also developed “to modernize outdated industrial practices”, as well as renasens from Sweden with a waterless, chemical-free technology, the mixed textile waste without depolymerization and without environmental pollution Raw materials transformed, represented.
Two start-ups from Great Britain were awarded in the category: Thermal Cyclones, whose “revolutionary industrial heat pumps can replace traditional boilers and reduce energy consumption by over 75 percent”, and pulp patronage that offers metal-free, chippless RFID papers that “recyclable, inexpensive and with ink Carbon base made ”and are geared towards the future of sustainable traceability. The category also awarded funding to the Chinese company Decorpet with its concept for a low-temperature reducing process, which “drastically lowers energy consumption and at the same time provides high-quality recycled PET for the new textile production”.
In the area of mindful consumption, the British company Loom was awarded for its “intuitive technology platform, the users: inside with designers: inside connects to unique pieces to unique pieces”.
In the “Wildcards” category, the Revival Circularity Lab from Ghana receives funding for its creative center on the Cantamanto market in Accra, which transforms textile waste into recycling materials and thus “strengthens artisans: strengthens and builds local circular economy”.
Karl-Johan Persson, founder and board member of the H&M Foundation, added: “In order to really decarbonize fashion, we have to think new to every part of the value chain-from the production of the fibers to the reuse of the clothing. to question and to lead the industry into a net zero future. ”
Since 2015, the GCA has supported 56 innovations with a total scholarship of ten million euros that concentrate on the developing needs of the industry’s greatest challenge – decarbonization.
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