mobile phone as he walks amid smog in Tianjin, China after the city issued a yellow alert for air pollution, November 26, 2018.

Source: UNEP

That’s more emissions than all international flights and maritime shipping combined.

REUTERS/Tim Chong A Cathay Pacific Airways Airbus A350 aeroplane approaches to land at Changi International Airport in Singapore, June 10, 2018.

Source: UNEP

If the fashion sector continues on its current trajectory, that share of the carbon budget could jump to 26% by 2050, according to a 2017 report from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Reuters/Mark Blinch Workers make jackets at the Canada Goose factory in Toronto.

Source: Ellen MacArthur Foundation

The fashion industry is also the second-largest consumer of water worldwide.

REUTERS/P. Ravikumar/File Photo Women fetch water from an opening made by residents at a dried-up lake in Chennai, India, whereor rivers.

REUTERS/Jayanta Dey A worker dyes yarn at a textile mill on the outskirts of Agartala, the capital of India’s northeastern state of Tripura, April 19, 2008.

Source: UNEP, The New York Times, The Guardian

The dyeing process uses enough water to fill 2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools each year.

REUTERS/Rafiquar Rahman The water in a ditch turns red as chemicals and waste are dumped into it from nearby tannery factories in Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 14, 2005.

Source: WRI

All in all, the fashion industry is responsible for 20% of all industrial water pollution worldwide.

REUTERS/Andrew Biraj (Bangladesh Environment Society) A boy swims in the polluted waters of the Buriganga river in Dhaka, Bangladesh, May 14, 2009.

Source: WRI, UNEP

Some apparel companies are starting to buck these trends by joining initiatives to cut back on