Expert on resilience, climate mitigation and animal rights in fashion
Between 1999 and 2014, Bel Jacobs was Style Editor for Metro. The fall of Rana Plaza in 2013 forced a re-assessment; today, she is a writer, speaker and activist with a focus on animal rights, climate justice, alternative systems in fashion and the need to transform culture in answer to the climate emergency. She is co-founder of Fashion Act Now, a campaign group with a focus on de-growth; co-founder of Islington Climate Centre, a community centre aiming to inform, engage and connect communities to the realities of and solutions to the climate emergency; founder of The Empathy Project, which aims to reframe human and animal relationships for the benefit of all.