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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. Head of Innovation, Research & Demonstration, H&M Foundation by Christiane Dolva Törnberg  Courtesy of the H&M Foundation The nonprofit H&M Foundation aims to help the textile industry cut its emissions by investing in innovative sustainability solutions. Christiane Dolva Törnberg is spearheading this effort, identifying promising research partnerships and overseeing the execution of decarbonization demonstration projects. Under her leadership, the foundation became the main funder of the [Future Forward Factories](https://hmfoundation.com/project/future-forward-factories-unlocking-near-net-zero-textile-manufacturing/) initiative, which is creating modular, open-source industry blueprints for lower-carbon textile facilities. The initiative released its first [blueprint](https://www.fashionforgood.com/case-study/future-forward-factories/) at the end of 2025, and is building a full-scale demonstrator facility in India that is projected to significantly cut greenhouse gas emissions. _—Jessica Hullinger_ **What is the single most important action you think the public, or a specific company or government, needs to take in the next year to advance the climate agenda?** The biggest competitor to new innovations, new solutions and new ways of working is actually business as usual. Change is hard, especially when not changing is cheaper and more convenient. I believe the single most important action is to make doing the right thing easier, cheaper and more rewarding than doing nothing. So we must create real incentives to accelerate the energy transition. For governments, this means introducing policies that accelerate the move away from a fossil fuel-based economy. For companies, it means integrating decarbonization into the way people are rewarded, measured and promoted. And for the public I think it is about making it clear to both companies and governments that we are up for it, we want it and we demand it! **What’s one sustainability effort you personally will try to adopt in the next year?** The sustainability effort I want to adopt next year is to have more conversations around a campfire, out in nature. I know that may sound strange, but to me it gets at something we badly need: trust! I think we all need more true, honest conversations, including the uncomfortable ones. Conversations where we are not distracted by phones or performance, where we have time to understand the perspectives of people from other parts of the system, put ourselves in their shoes and invite them to walk in ours. I do not believe polarization can ever drive systems change. If we are going to transform, many parts need to move at the same time, and that requires people to lower their defensiveness and collaborate for real. The more trust there is between people, the more complex the challenges we can solve together. So yes, I want to spend more time around a campfire in nature, with people. I want to build more trust between people. And then we need to turn trust into action. **What is a climate solution that isn't getting the attention or funding it deserves?** We do not only need more solutions. We need conditions that allow solutions to win. What I think gets too little attention is the work that allows good solutions to actually scale: implementation. We often celebrate new ideas, new materials, new technologies. But many climate solutions do not fail because the idea is bad. They fail because the system around them is not ready to adopt them. The contracts, the pricing, the regulations, the habits and the risk models still favor business as usual. So I would like to see more attention and funding going to the less glamorous work of changing those conditions. It is harder to explain, but it is what allows all the more visible solutions to reach their full potential. **What gives you hope about the future of the planet?** I have been working on these topics for almost 20 years now, and I have seen the climate and sustainability conversation evolve. When I started, it was often treated as a party pooper topic focused only on the “do less of this” and “stop doing that.” For quite some time, it became a driver for both innovation and business positioning. Now I see climate increasingly woven together with resilience, security and stability, which feels natural. The effects of climate change are not a distant future scenario; they are here and now. Even if it might sound a bit dark, that gives me hope. That reality is moving the topics from “nice to have” to “need to have.” In Norway we have a saying: “need teaches a naked woman to weave.” I guess this resonates for someone working in the textile industry. It means roughly the same as “necessity is the mother of invention.” My hope is tied to that. If we do not act fast enough by choice, we will eventually act out of necessity. 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