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Sustainability Solutions

Solving your sustainability challenges

We help organisations to make the optimal decision, to act with conviction and to deliver with certainty in an uncertain world. We ensure our clients can balance environmental, social and commercial priorities, creating long-term value for their business and stakeholders.

Sectors

Supporting all sectors

SLR supports a wide range of industry sectors, partnering with organisations facing some of the world's toughest sustainability challenges. Working alongside clients locally while drawing on expertise from across the globe, we bring knowledge of acute challenges together with proven solutions from across sectors and geographies.

Services

Project partnership

We collaborate with clients throughout their project life-cycle, helping them chart their strategic path, protect their assets, strengthen operational resilience and deliver important projects.

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Bridging the sustainability gap: Reflections from Textile Exchange 2026

21 October 2026

3 minutes read

Over three crisp, clear days in October, more than 1,300 people came together for this year’s Textile Exchange conference in Vancouver, Canada.

Though the theme of the event was ‘The implementation era’, what struck me most in each of the conversations, whether on-stage or in breakouts, was the idea of connection.

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Our mission

SLR’s purpose is Making Sustainability Happen.

We achieve this by bringing together strategic advisory expertise, deep scientific and engineering knowledge grounded in real-world experience, and trusted data and digital capabilities. Together, these integrated strengths help clients weigh risk, reward and resilience and move from ambition to practical action that delivers measurable, lasting impact.

Post Date: 18 July 2023
Read Time: 1 minute

The case for environmental action - particularly on climate change - is clear, and a host of research demonstrates that public awareness of the problem is high. And yet the adoption of even simple solutions remains low. There is a disconnection between our knowledge and our behaviour. The 21st Century Living Project was created to look rigorously and honestly into this gap. For this research, we pooled our skills and resources with those of Homebase and The Eden Project. Close to 100 ordinary households spent 18 months finding out what they could achieve. Or - just as important - explaining frankly what got in the way. This is the executive summary.