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Worldly, the leading supply chain sustainability insights and data platform, has launched the first of its kind innovative Product Impact Calculator that would enable apparel and consumer goods companies to quickly get actionable, auditable, and granular Scope 3 measurements of their product lines.

Open Lab, a 20,000 sq ft facility, launched by the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) and the H&M Foundation, is set to become a global hub for sustainable innovation, focusing on climate action and industry-wide collaboration to showcase solutions and ongoing research to enable industry to quickly adjust, iterate, pilot and scale faster.

The Woolmark+ roadmap by Woolmark marks the launch of a major 13-point future-facing programme that aims to accelerate low-impact production, promote circularity and enhance animal wellbeing and woolgrower livelihoods.

A collaborative research project by The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland that seeks to address the challenges of energy and resource consumption in the forestry and textile industry is working on a low-carbon, water-efficient technology with the potential to reduce water consumption by up to 90% and overall energy consumption by more than half.

Research from Clemson University in the US is shedding light on how to make cotton more climate-resilient through improved water use efficiency.

Sustainability must be globally branded in one set of images, symbols and stories based on archetypes that align with and inform sustainability.

For all the sound and fury on climate change and climate change continuing to wreak havoc in all parts of the globe, as many as 32 of the 250 brands rated 0% in terms of their emissions accountability, says a Fashion Revolution report.

The Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) review of the Corporate Net-Zero Standard virtually trashes the current mechanism of carbon credits, underscoring why it faced a backlash not just from industry but also its own staff.

As climate change leads to more frequent and severe droughts in many cotton-growing regions, developing varieties that can thrive with less water is crucial, and new research offers hope for developing more resilient varieties of cotton that can maintain high yields even under water-stressed conditions.

A consortium of 24 partners will work on a holistic approach towards sustainable growth in the EU textiles sector by raising customer awareness, enhancing recycling, ensuring feedstock traceability using the Digital Product Passport, and providing data and guidelines to decision-makers.