One way to help the fashion industry reduce its emissions in line with the 1.5-degree Celsius pathway? Making the right material choices, according to Textile Exchange.
We pick up three key themes from McKinsey's State of Fashion 2024 report, analysing AI’s pervasive influence in the industry; the climate emergency and fashion’s future with sustainability; and how brands, retailers and suppliers can prepare for fashion’s economic outlook for the year ahead.
New research shared by the blockchain and web3 solutions developer, Protokol, claims there is a surge in interest for the upcoming regulation mandating Digital Product Passports (DPPs), with its media coverage up 413% compared to the same period last year.
The Fashion Revolution initiative is calling on fashion brands to set robust climate targets in consultation with their suppliers and on policymakers to hold them to account on decarbonisation. The call to action was issued to coincide with the COP28 climate summit in Dubai which aims to bring world leaders together to agree and co-ordinate global action to address climate change.
The World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) assessed 55 of the world’s most influential apparel companies, including Adidas, Fast Retailing, Kering, SHEIN, and VF Corporation, in its 2023 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark and Gender Benchmark.
This report sets out the results from RISE supporting 17 garment factories in Cambodia with over 25,000 workers (85% women) with wage digitalization, and enabling workers to access, use and benefit from their accounts.
This year is set to be a tipping point for fashion’s supply chains, as brands and suppliers race to comply with incoming legislation and meet 2025 sustainability goals.
Overproduction has been fashion’s constant companion for years. For a long time, overproduction was financially feasible due to (inhumanely) cheap raw materials, labour, and transport. Combined with high mark-ups, fashion found a way to make overproduction profitable, albeit at a great environmental expense.
The Ministry of Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment requires enhanced human resources and increased capacity to provide robust assistance to distressed migrant workers in destination countries
Interviews with 100+ workers in this January 2024 report by CCC Turkey shows that garment factories and their buyers left workers to fend for themselves after the devastating earthquake that hit Türkiye in February 2023. As most of them were not paid in full in the aftermath of the earthquake, workers had to return to their jobs out of financial necessity without having a safe place to live and before the factories they worked in had undergone any structural safety inspections.
Together with business consultancy Deloitte, global impact organisation Circle Economy Foundation has published its “Circularity Gap Report 2024” today, which highlights how the global circularity rate is currently falling from 9.1 percent to 7.2 percent despite the number of discussions, debates and articles related to the circular economy having almost tripled over the past five years.
The GOTS Due Diligence Handbook for Certified Entities is based on the recognised international frameworks, including the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains in the Garment and Footwear Sector (2018) and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). The Handbook offers GOTS Certified Entities clear guidance on integrating due diligence processes into their operations, thereby helping them to comply with domestic due diligence laws such as the German Supply Chain Law, French Vigilance Law, and upcoming EU legislation.
Status report summarising the proliferation of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) systems for the textiles waste stream
Improving supply chain working conditions requires clarity of expectations and accountability on both sides.
Conditions mandatory to form trade unions will be eased through the upcoming amendment to Bangladesh Labour Act, in a bid to comply with recommendations from Western communities, particularly the European Union (EU) and the United States.
While the textile industry helps many across the state earn their livelihoods, the chemical effluents from the units affect the lives of people living in the vicinity. To address this, a team of faculty members at the National Institute of Technology, Warangal (NIT-W), has developed an environment-friendly hybrid wastewater treatment system for textile industry effluents.
In our section "What's going on in...?" we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. For Bangladesh, we speak with Smita Nimilita, Country Representative for HERproject in Bangladesh.
In our section "What's going on in...?" we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. For Indonesia, we speak with Amalia Falah Alam. Alam is the country manager for Fair Wear in Indonesia, an independent, nonprofit organization that works to improve conditions for garment factory workers.
In our section "What's going on in...?" we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. For Pakistan, we speak with Azizullah Goheer, Secretary General, of the Pakistan Textile Exporter Association (PTEA).
In our new section "What's going on in..." we want to sharpen the view on key garment production centres, and talk to experts about current developments, exciting topics and innovations in these countries. We kick off the series with prominent Labour Researcher Dr. Do Chi Quynh. We speak to her about the evolution of labour rights and working conditions in the Vietnamese garment and textiles industry, what impact the pandemic has had, and what the future has in store for the industry and its workers.
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress them. To improve due diligence in global supply chains, transparency and traceability regarding social, environmental and economic aspects are vital in the creation of sustainable and resilient supply chains and overall effective corporate governance. To gather information about these aspects, digital tools are used to facilitate this process. However, the introduction of digital tools can pose different challenges for different stakeholders, hindering the usage of digital solutions to increase transparency and traceability. To dig deeper into the challenges faced by different stakeholders, interviews were conducted. Did you know that one major challenge is the training required to use such digital tools, but also pricing negotiations because it's hard for users to understand the value of more transparency and traceability? Find out more in the info graphics attached.
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress them. To improve due diligence in global supply chains, transparency and traceability regarding social, environmental and economic aspects are vital in the creation of sustainable and resilient supply chains and overall effective corporate governance. To gather information about these aspects, digital tools are used to facilitate this process. However, the introduction of digital tools can pose different challenges for different stakeholders, hindering the usage of digital solutions to increase transparency and traceability. To dig deeper into the challenges faced by different stakeholders, interviews were conducted. Did you know that one major challenge is the training required to use such digital tools, but also pricing negotiations because it's hard for users to understand the value of more transparency and traceability? Find out more in the info graphics attached.
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress them. To improve due diligence in global supply chains, transparency and traceability regarding social, environmental and economic aspects are vital in the creation of sustainable and resilient supply chains and overall effective corporate governance. To gather information about these aspects, digital tools are used to facilitate this process. However, the introduction of digital tools can pose different challenges for different stakeholders, hindering the usage of digital solutions to increase transparency and traceability. To dig deeper into the challenges faced by different stakeholders, interviews were conducted. Did you know that one major challenge is the training required to use such digital tools, but also pricing negotiations because it's hard for users to understand the value of more transparency and traceability? Find out more in the info graphics attached.
Global supply chains are long, complex, fragmented, continuously evolving and notoriously opaque. The fragmented and opaque information can create the breeding ground of exploitative and unsafe working conditions while obscuring who has the responsibility and power to redress them. To improve due diligence in global supply chains, transparency and traceability regarding social, environmental and economic aspects are vital in the creation of sustainable and resilient supply chains and overall effective corporate governance. To gather information about these aspects, digital tools are used to facilitate this process. However, the introduction of digital tools can pose different challenges for different stakeholders, hindering the usage of digital solutions to increase transparency and traceability. To dig deeper into the challenges faced by different stakeholders, interviews were conducted. Did you know that one major challenge is the training required to use such digital tools, but also pricing negotiations because it's hard for users to understand the value of more transparency and traceability? Find out more in the info graphics attached.
Meet Anne Sutanto, Vice CEO of Indonesian Apparel giant PT Pan Brothers to hear what she has to say on the links between productivity and sustainability.
How Apparel Brand Purchasing Practices Drive Labor Abuses
This is Transform Trade's (under its former name Traidcraft Exchange) submission to the UK Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee.
This research investigated the impact of global fashion retailers and brands unfair practices on Bangladeshi suppliers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Research in 2020-21 on the impact of Covid-19 on garment workers in Bangladesh found that workers, particularly women workers, suffered economic and social vulnerabilities.
