Analyst & Consultant in Sustainable Fashion
Veronica empowers businesses, legislators, initiatives, authors, and journalists, to make, to verify, and to contest environmental impact and sustainability claims.
An ex-World Bank Financial Analyst/Economist, Veronica was also briefly, the co-owner of a niche fashion brand. Her white paper on the use and misuse of sustainability metrics in fashion - produced in collaboration with the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights - informed the Norwegian Consumer Authority’s 2022 ruling against the use of the Higg MSI.
“Without the report “The Great Greenwashing Machine, Part 2”», by Veronica Bates Kassatly and Dorothee Baumann-Pauly, the Norwegian Consumer Authority (NCA) would probably not have been able to identify the issues with the Higg MSI and the Higg MSI data sets.Without this report, we would thus probably not have been able to take on the case against the Norwegian retailer Norrøna Sport AS and the case against the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.”
Tonje H. Drevland
Head of Section, Norwegian Consumer Authority (Forbrukertilsynet)
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"If we are to avoid exceeding the limits of what Nature can provide on a sustainable basis while meeting the needs of the human population, we cannot rely on technology alone: consumption and production patterns will need to be fundamentally restructured. Breaking the links between damaging forms of consumption and production and Nature can be accelerated through a range of policies that change prices and behavioural norms."
– Professor Partha Dasgupta: The Economics of Biodiversity