Ongoing allegations of garment worker exploitation, incoming legislation designed to solve it, and a heightened sense of social impact since the pandemic have prompted an increased focus on social sustainability this year. There has been more widespread recognition that sustainability has to be holistic: environmental impact is essential, but it cannot come at the cost of human lives or livelihoods.
This falls into sharp relief in the necessary but controversial conversation around degrowth, which has become a defining topic of 2022 and one where the balance between people and the planet is especially delicate. Combining degrowth efforts such as circularity and cutting overproduction with the “just transition” will be a key challenge for 2023, experts say.
[tratto da Vogue Business, 29 dicembre 2022]
