The new and evolving metrics that are helping expand the way businesses create, quantify, manage and report their impacts, and the value they deliver.
***Measuring Fashion: Insights from the Environmental Impact of the Global Footwear Industries Study*** considers the industries’ value chains across seven stages — from fiber production and material extraction to end-of-life.
At the closing of the **New Metrics '17** conference in Philadelphia last month, attendees were asked: “What ‘New Metric’ will you go back and implement in 2017/2018?” The overriding response tabulated in real time and displayed on the big screen in a word cloud (above) was “context based,” meaning [**Context-Based Sustainability**](/read/new-metrics/science-vs-context-based-metrics-what-s-the-difference) (**CBS**) and its corresponding context-based metrics.