Updates

The UN Climate Change-convened Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action (Fashion Charter) and the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) are working on a new guidance to help apparel and footwear companies more efficiently and consistently measure their purchased goods and services (PG&S) emissions.

Textile Exchange has defined "leather" as an entity. The definition assumes significance in the backdrop of many companies using the "leather" suffix to identify their own alternative materials.

The Fashion Industry Target Consultation project, a multi-stakeholder initiative, which aims to identify and converge existing industry aligned targets, has been launched at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), now under way at the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.

The Circular Bioeconomy Alliance and luxury conglomerate LVMH have announced a major project aimed at developing sustainable cotton production in Africa in a regenerative agroforestry system.

Egypt's Green Fashion startup that empowers women in slums with a livelihood as they help mitigate environmental destruction is being showcased at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27), now under way at the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.

The just released UN Environment Programme’s ‘Sustainable Fashion: Communication Strategy 2021–24’ sets the context for the issues the industry is facing as well as the landscape in which it finds itself both from a consumer insights and policy perspective.

Textile Exchange has called on brands and supply chain partners to proactively adopt an integrity system by reviewing and mapping their supply networks to check vulnerabilities and embed an anti-fraud and integrity policy.

An industrial court in Swaziland has ruled in favour of workers who challenged garment manufacturer Zheng Yong Swaziland over unilaterally deciding to stop deducting union dues for 1,276 workers.

The first ‘tree-free rayon’ fibre — Nullarbor — has been used to create the first set of garments by Australian biomaterials company, Nanollose Limited. The garments have been produced by Paradise Textiles, which is part of the Alpine Group.

The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) has released a manual which proposes a new, more authentic approach for measuring and reporting on the sustainability performance of economic entities in relation to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).