UNCTAD's Trade and Development Report 2022 has cautioned that advanced economies would need to change course in their monetary and fiscal policies to avoid inflicting a worse damage than the financial crisis of 2008 and the COVID-19 shock of 2020. The cascading crises resulting from the pandemic combined with debt distress, inflation, climate change and the war in Ukraine have already turned a global slowdown into a downturn.

There’s yet another eco-friendly, plant-based lecithin “tanning” process for nanocellulose that has created a strong, compostable bioleather. This new process promises to not only transform future textile development but also cultural heritage research. A texfash.com report.

Haelixa has been marking Egyptian cotton fabrics for premium shirts with a unique DNA marker. This makes the raw material traceable from the source to the finished textile product. A texfash.com report.

And now used diapers from households and institutions will be recycled into litter for your pet cat, and justifiably so it has won the RISE Innovation Award. A texfash.com report.

The Forest, Land and Agriculture (FLAG) Science Based Target Setting Guidance from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) provides businesses in land-intensive sectors such as food, agriculture and forestry with the tools to play their part in preventing the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

Shein, which has been facing severe criticism for its fast fashion overdrive and the lack of transparency both in its activities and supply chains, has announced ambitious emission reduction targets for 2030, and also allocated $7.6 million in programmatic funding to the Apparel Impact Institute.

A Fashion Week Vitality Index Report which aims at delivering the voice of China to the global fashion industry has ranked the fashion weeks of Paris, Milan and London as the ones that work best for that country, with Shanghai seeing the number of participating brands increasing in 2021.

Textile worker unions have launched a campaign in five countries for social protection. One of the root causes of garment workers’ dire situation is that many producing countries have inadequate or non-existent systems for social protection.

The 2021 Impact Report of the Social and Labor Convergence Program (SLCP) says that a staggering 91% of all verified assessments of facilities include at least one non-compliance. texfash.com reports.

The Lycra Company, a global leader in developing innovative fibre and technology solutions for the textile and apparel industry, has announced that it has entered into an agreement with Qore to enable the world’s first large-scale commercial production of bio-derived spandex using Qira.