EU policy for textiles is no longer optional, niche, or abstract. It will define the new normal for how businesses design, produce, and sell in Europe. The real test is whether companies stay stuck in debates about bürokratiemonster and broad concepts like circularity, or whether they seize this moment to turn legislation into leadership.
The Nairobi session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) has called on governments to facilitate a Global Textiles Policy Dialogue to urgently scale up policy efforts that minimise negative impacts of the textiles value chain on nature, people and economies.
