Emissions

ZDHC has released the first edition of its Air Emissions Guidelines which will aim to sensitise the industry, allowing suppliers to establish their baselines and understand air emission requirements as of now rather than testing.

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.

Fashion has some bad news for the planet. Most brands are actively “greenwashing” their emissions with none of the companies assessed reporting transparently on the terms, value invested or availability to suppliers, says a new Stand.earth report.

Oh gosh! Says a new research — plastic products result in lower GHG emissions compared to their alternatives. The reduction in emissions spans from 10% to as high as 90% across the product lifecycle.

Has the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) buckled to pressure from carbon market players and corporate interests to allow companies to meet scope 3 targets with carbon credits? texfash.com probes.

All things cotton and the global market scenario from regenerative to organic, the urgent imperative to go sustainable and more is what Ben Eaves, Director of Liverpool Cotton Brokers Ltd, discusses in this freewheeling tete-a-tete with texfash.com.

The world’s first lifecycle calculator has been launched. It is expected to help customers measure their environmental footprint with respect to their fashion choices.

A meaningful transition to a circular model has not quite materialised. While almost half of assessed companies have at least one circular fashion programme in place, only 31% have publicly committed to any aspect of the circularity business model. Even fewer are tracking on how much materials from those programmes are actually removed from the waste stream.

The H&M Group has established collaborative financing solutions that enable the necessary decarbonisation of its supply chains by launching a green loan programme in association with Southeast Asia’s largest bank, DBS.