“WEF Says Fashion Will Be Abolished by 2030: ‘Humans Will All Wear a Uniform’” reads the headline circulating on Twitter (here) and Facebook (here), (here).
The online claims misconstrue a report by a WEF partner, which presents analyses of cutting emissions by reducing clothing purchases, among other measures, but does not mention abolishing fashion or the wearing of uniforms.
Arup is a WEF “partner,” which Yann Zopf, a spokesperson for WEF, said is what the organization calls its members (www.weforum.org/partners).
A C40 Cities spokesperson said in an email: “The report is an analysis of consumption-based emissions in C40 cities, not a plan for cities to adopt.
A report analyzing voluntary changes that cities could make to reduce emissions was not produced by the WEF and does not call for everyone to wear uniforms.
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