Fashion brand review platform good on you has examined some of their most notorious ads and claims published in recent years to help us distinguish which sustainability initiatives are truly eco-responsible and which are not. Are the big brands becoming more sustainable, or is it just greenwashing?

Sweden’s Do Black bank card can be used to block purchases with too high a carbon footprint. It responds to a growing demand from consumers to know more about the impact of their purchases, in order to reduce their individual carbon footprint. For the more wary who might think that this system would limit our freedoms, rest assured that the choice is entirely up to the consumer.

The Coalition for Responsible Multinationals deplores the fact that Swiss companies are regularly implicated in human rights violations or acts of pollution. On August 20, it launched a petition calling for an effective law on multinational corporate responsibility, aiming for 100,000 signatures in 100 days. The 2020 popular initiative won a majority of the people, but not of the cantons.

Sulfur in the form of sulfuric acid is used to produce the phosphorus fertilizers that boost agricultural yields, or to extract the essential metals used to manufacture solar panels and electric car batteries. What is less well known is that over 80% of the world’s sulfur supply is a waste product extracted from fossil fuels such as oil and natural gas.

While Alpine glaciers have lost around 60% of their volume since 1850, it would seem that the glaciers of Central Asia are not suffering in the same way from global warming. On the contrary, their surface area has remained stable or even increased. A team of Swiss scientists have set up a weather station on the Kyzylsu glacier in the Pamir mountains of Tajikistan.

Plant-based products that are meant to replace meat are still niche products with just 2.3% market share in Switzerland, but the trend has been accelerating since 2016 with sales doubling. In Swiss supermarkets, one out of every six burgers sold is plant-based. According to the start-up, Swiss consumers are quite willing to try new foods.

Ed Hawkins is the designer of the “Warming stripes”, which at a glance give an understanding of global warming. With his help, expert Miles Richardson decided to replicate this concept for biodiversity issues, creating the “Biodiversity stripes” in a bid to achieve the same high media profile as the first.

Copenhagen Fashion Week was officially fur-free for the first year, after pledging to ban it following a PETA protest last year. This commitment comes more than 10 years after Oslo Fashion Week, the precursor of the movement, and a few years after those of Amsterdam, Helsinki and London. It could encourage Milan and Paris to follow suit.

Kylie Jenner, Drake and other celebrities have recently come under fire for their carbon-intensive private jet journeys. While Kylie Jenner indulges in a 17-minute trip on her private jet for reasons that are probably not vital, the less fortunate bear the burden of daily sacrifices to curb the climate crisis, to the point where some are forced to flee their homes.

It’s a major victory for President Joe Biden and his party: the Senate has passed the $750 billion Democratic bill, called the Inflation Reduction Act, concerning health care, taxes and climate. The adoption of this package of measures after bitter negotiations gives the Democrats a chance to achieve major political objectives before the next mid-term elections.