Updates

The World Trade Organization and FIFA have launched a new brand under their Cotton 4-plus initiative to promote the cotton sector in the West Africa region which is know for good quality cotton, but is unable to export enough cotton products compared to cotton lint.

The Standard Convergence Initiative of IAF and ITMF has issued a manifesto calling for reducing audit fatigue, and urged industry stakeholders to accept/integrate the Social & Labor Convergence Program’s Converged Assessment Framework (CAF).

The multistakeholder The Industry We Want (TIWW) has published its 2024 Industry Dashboard which shows that descpite industry efforts, the gap between minimum wages and living wages has marginally increased over the last year.

The European Commission and national consumer protection authorities of 22 Member States, Norway and Iceland have released the results of a screening (“sweep”) of social media posts from influencers which found that only one in five systematically indicated that their content was advertising. 

The apex University Grants Commission has asked all Universities and Colleges in the country to use khadi products at the events such as seminars, conferences and workshops, keep in tune with the Prime  Minister's 2015 call prefer khadi products.

The so-called green claims directive moved a step further as European Parliament adopted a position on the rules on how firms can validate their environmental marketing claims.

The Accelerating Circularity Project (ACP) has begun work on ‘Building Circular Systems’ (BCS) that promise to enable the reduction of the textile industry’s GHG impacts and reduce the volume of textiles going to landfill and incineration. 

Europe gets closer to implementing the extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes as European Parliament votes in favour of the proposed changes that would mandate producers to cover costs for collecting, sorting and recycling waste textiles. 

Advocacy nonprofit Stand.earth has filed an anti-competition complaint against leading Canadian fashion brand Lululemon claiming that the latter’s ‘Be Planet’ campaign misleads customers about its environmental impact.

The Social & Labor Convergence Program (SLCP) will now function as an independent non-profit even as it reaffirmed its commitment with its founder, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC),  to align tools and strategies for a shared vision of improved global working conditions.