Biodiversity

What key steps can SMEs take to act on their biodiversity goals—from understanding their impact, to integrating into a collaborative effort of suppliers, innovators, and conservation advocates to drive change through supply chains and secure conservation where it counts?

Cotton cultivation has been majorly impacted with the noticeable loss of biodiversity and effects of climate change in south of the Sahara, says a Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) survey.

The Sixth UN Environment Assembly in February will focus on the need for a policy dialogue and coordination mechanism to give cohesion and support the upscaling of current policy efforts to minimise negative impacts on nature, people and economies of the textile value chain.

Textile Exchange has come up with a ‘Biodiversity Landscape Analysis’ for the fashion, textile, apparel, and footwear industry to help spur companies forward with methods and actions relevant to their biodiversity and nature journey, and point them to key guidance, resources, and tools.

The Finnish University of Jyväskylä is piloting a method, the first of its kind, for corporations to calculate their biodiversity footprint, based on scientific databases and a company’s consumption accounts.

Fashion enterprises now have tools and resources to navigate through the stages of developing a biodiversity strategy that is aligned with the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN).

A €140 million commitment from luxury majors Kering and L’Occitane Group for a Climate Fund for Nature will mobilise resources to protect and restore nature, with focus on women's empowerment.

Only one company from the apparel and footwear sector scored above average in the 2022 Nature Benchmark rankings. As many as 18 scored less than 10, and five failed to get even one point in the benchmark study which looked along entire value chains and cross-industry to provide a snapshot of system-level progress.