Updates

Nonprofit Leather Working Group (LWG) has come up with a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study aimed at providing accurate and updated insights into the environmental impact of leather production, supporting stakeholders in reducing environmental footprints and making informed decisions.

A report by the Global Labor Institute warns that if 4 key hubs of garment production fail to make climate adaptation investments, nearly one million new apparel and footwear jobs will be foregone by 2030.

A report by the European Fashion Alliance (EFA) explores the region’s fashion industry, renowned for creativity and innovation, detailing the hurdles, opportunities, and strategies for advancing towards a more sustainable and technologically integrated future.

Failure to adequately consider the challenges faced by key trade partners to adapt to the ambitions of the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles risks jeopardising the success of the strategy, a multi-country study into the potential effects of the strategy has concluded.

A pioneering publication—Fashion & Land: Unravelling the Environmental Impact of Fibres—produced by the UNCCD explores the role of the fashion industry in driving environmental change, particularly in relation to land.

A plan to develop the UK’s first wetsuit recycling facility is among eight new projects funded by Future Fibres Network Plus. The neoprene recycling project is one of the eight mini projects newly funded by the network.

For the first time ever Canopy's Hot Button Report has awarded the coveted 'green shirt' status to three global producers—India-based Aditya Birla, Austria-based Lenzing, and China-based Tangshan Sanyou.

Here’s another report that castigates the fashion industry’s current linear “take-make-waste” model — the biggest deterrent to achieving key climate, nature and human rights goals, with impacts only increasing as growth remains a business imperative.

Circle Economy has come up with the first-of-its-kind ‘Circularity Gap Report’ that examines how materials flow throughout the entire textile value chain, from design to post-consumer management. It explores how materials are extracted, transformed and managed at their end-of-life—from cotton farming and petrochemical production to spinning, weaving and dyeing to product assembly and distribution—and delves into the resource and energy inputs of each stage.

Only five years to 2030 to hold temperature increases to 1.5°C above preindustrial levels as per Paris Agreement. How are signatories at the Scandinavian Textile Initiative for Climate Action (STICA) performing? A report on their Climate Action Transition Plans reveals that though there is relative progress, the pace and scale varies, and is too slow.