Due Diligence

Nonprofit Global Standard has launched a landmark resource—the GOTS Due Diligence Handbook for Auditors—a critical step in promoting sustainable practices, human rights and ethical business conduct across the textile sector and in line with evolving regulatory requirements around the world.

A new handbook guides companies on how to use the OECD due diligence framework for achieving living incomes and living wages in global supply chains. It builds on existing OECD standards and focuses on the agriculture, garment and footwear sectors where inadequate incomes and wages have been identified as prevalent risks.

Most environmental issues in the cotton industry are being discussed and addressed, but the question remains: is enough being done? Award-winning innovation and sustainability leader, Michela Puddu, touches on a diverse range of subjects, from the cotton production and recycling landscape to its huge and fragmented supply chain, the role of standards & certifications, traceability, impact of global climate change, water challenges, livelihoods and more.

The road to widespread adoption of conflict-free cotton won’t be easy, but it’s a path being paved by a mix of legislative action, corporate responsibility, and consumer demand. While much remains to be done, the progress made so far is promising. Continued collaboration between governments, corporations, and consumers is imperative to ensure conflict-free cotton becomes a reality.

Leading apparel and footwear brands have scored the lowest when it comes to Purchasing Practices (12/100) and Remedy (7/100), in the latest annual KnowTheChain rankings.

The European Parliament and the Council on the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive reached a landmark agreement Thursday which is expected to change how business is done in the European Union (EU) and elsewhere, but has left a big loophole in leaving the financial sector out of its ambit.

Fair Wear Foundation and the Sustainable Terms of Trade Initiative (STTI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), committing to further strengthening their collaboration on advancing systemic change in the garment and textiles industry.

The just-announced SLCP Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) Toolkit shows how the Converged Assessment Framework can support due diligence compliance across supply chains.

EURATEX has released a position paper on the European Commission's proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence. It has pointed out many lacunae in the proposal, and said that smaller players in supply chains could feace the brunt.

A new research talks about the rules currently being developed under two new laws in the European Union, which will now mandate companies to report on the effects of their environmental and social policies in their supply chains.