Updates

A 'Leather Manifesto' has exhorted the COP27 to recognise the cyclical, climate-efficient characteristics of leather and other natural fibres. It also urged the COP27 to understand the implications of the huge amounts of raw material of leather production, hides and skins, that are currently being thrown away.

A new research talks about the rules currently being developed under two new laws in the European Union, which will now mandate companies to report on the effects of their environmental and social policies in their supply chains.

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.