ClimateHack Amsterdam: Decarbonising Textiles & Apparel ๐
โYou're invited to ClimateHack Amsterdam: Decarbonising Textiles & Apparel
โOn 19 July, the EU's Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation kicks in, banning large companies from destroying unsold clothing, accessories and footwear across the EU. No more quietly landfilling or burning stock nobody bought.
Roughly 4 to 9% of unsold textiles in Europe get destroyed every year before a single person wears them, and that waste alone generates around 5.6 million tonnes of CO2, which is almost what Sweden emits in a year. Europeans now consume 19kg of textiles per person a year, the highest on record, and textiles rank fifth among twelve household consumption categories for raw material use, emissions, water and land use.
Decarbonising this sector needs an entire ecosystem that's more than a disposal ban: new materials, cleaner production, circular design and tech to make all of it scalable.
โJoin us as we spotlight Dutch innovation and initiatives tackling textile waste and emissions head-on.
โLanguage: English
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โSPEAKERS
โVincent van der Holst, Founder, VNYX & BOAS. Before starting his own ventures, he worked in marketing with Adidas, Samsung and Decathlon and ran campaigns for large NGOs like The Red Cross and UNHCR. He is a TEDx speaker. Oh, and he holds a Guinness World Record for cycling 260 km without hands โ raising enough money to prevent an entire village from malaria. VNYX is a robotics and AI company building the technology that makes reselling fashion โoverstock, returns, and vintage โ profitable and scalable. VNYX is the winner of the Fashion Pioneer and Modint awards. BOAS, a fashion resale platform donating 90% of profits to repair the fashion industry, and founder of the Profit for Good movement.
โPauline Op de Beeck, Climate Portfolio Director, Apparel Impact Institute (Aii). She is a climate leader with nearly a decade of experience decarbonizing the global apparel supply chain. As Climate Portfolio Director at Apparel Impact Institute (Aii), she identifies, funds, and scales decarbonization solutions, managing its grant program and leading the organization's clean heat work, from industry alignment to on-the-ground implementation. Previously, she founded and led the Carbon Trust's Amsterdam office, where she also built its global apparel sector decarbonization practice. Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) connects and mobilizes a variety of stakeholders around urgent climate action, diverse funding, and vetted program implementation.
โPriyanka Khanna, Innovation Director (Scaling), Fashion for Good. She leads initiatives that accelerate the adoption of next-generation materials, textile recycling and decarbonisation solutions. Throughout her career, she has worked with startups, scaleups and established organisations to navigate growth, commercialisation, market expansion, fundraising and cross-sector collaboration, helping build businesses that deliver both commercial success and measurable environmental impact. Fashion for Good is the global platform for collaborative innovation to transform and build a regenerative industry.
โZsofia Kollar, founder of Human Material Loop, the developer of ฤdaraยฎ, a new keratin protein textile fiber. Before founding Human Material Loop, she ran her independent design studio, with clients including the Ministry of Education, the Dutch military, and Royal Zoo Amsterdam. She is the published author of OOI, a book on design and consumer identity, a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Art, and a TEDx speaker. A true radicalist, she believes innovation should be disruptive for the better, challenging outdated systems and creating real impact.
โGรถkรงe Iliklier, Founder of The Swap Club. With 12 years of experience in fashion retail and e-commerce at global companies including Nike, Gรถkรงe specializes in digital sales growth and consumer behaviour, and holds a Master's degree in Fashion and Apparel Management. Passionate about changing how we consume fashion, she founded The Swap Club, a tech-enabled offline textile exchange platform that has circulated 30,000+ garments in two years with a 75% circulation rate. Today, her team is building the technology to make circular fashion simple, scalable, and accessible to everyone.
โJonathan Davies is a product marketer at Carbonfact, the sustainability platform for footwear and apparel brands. He covers the ESG market, the impact of regulation, the solutions that best fit brands' needs, and Carbonfact's latest feature releases โ all in service of Carbonfact's mission to decarbonize the footwear and apparel industry. Carbonfact is the Environmental Data platform for apparel & footwear that combines climate science, primary data, and AI to turn fragmented supply chain data into precise, product-level insight teams can act on, not just report. Selected by 200+ brands, such as GANNI andย Samsรธe Samsรธe, the platform isย built exclusively for this industry, and gives sustainability leaders the accuracy they need to reduce emissions โ without the data administration that slows them down.
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โAGENDA
โ6:30pm - Doors open
โ7:00 pmย - Speakers presentations
โ7:30 pmย - Audience Q&A
โ7:40 pmย - Community 30-second pitches
โ7:45pmย - Closing; Moves to drinks, food, & networking
โ~9:00pmย -ย Event concludes
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โAbout ClimateHack
โClimateHack is a community-driven platform that inspires, highlights and connects climatetech entrepreneurs and innovators. With meetups across the globe, a weekly climatetech industry newsletter, weekly reports on climatetech, and an annual summit.
โClimateHack Amsterdam Ambassadors
โAaron Endrรฉ, Founder & Principal of endrรฉ
โNhiyc (Nhi), Founder of Nลซ Atlas
โContact: climatehack.amsterdam@gmail.com
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โAbout the Sponsor: Sandra Wing Studio
โSandra is the principal and organizational strategist of Sandra Wing Studio. She empowers founders, teams, and impact-driven organizations to move from stuck to capable. Drawing on more than a decade of work across service design, user experience research, and innovation strategy, she helps teams find clarity, align around priorities, and improve collaboration. Using facilitation, research, and systems mapping, she maps where an organization is and where it wants to be โ surfacing the gaps and opportunities in between, and co-designs the strategies, processes, and structures to bridge them. Her work spans a wide range of industries across North America, Asia, and Europe, including in climate and social impact, from carbon capture and storage to sustainable supply chains and global emissions tooling.
โLearn more at https://www.sandrawingstudio.com/
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โAbout the Venue: Patagonia
โPatagonia was founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1973 and is based in Ventura, California. The iconic outdoor company has been committed to high quality products as well as environmental activism since its foundation. The billion-dollar global brand has time and again demonstrated that business can both be radically responsible and profitable.
โAt the heart of Patagoniaโs mission is its deep commitment to the planet and its people. Their mission statement, โWeโre in business to save our home planet,โ reflects Patagoniaโs dedication to environmental conservation and activism. Initiatives such as โ1% for the Planetโ donating 1% of sales to environmental organizations as well as their Worn Wear program, actively promoting and being committed to the repair and reuse of their clothing, Patagonia is a lighthouse company in sustainable business practices.
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