Ethiopia's showcase textile project—Hawassa Industrial Park—is facing huge job losses in the wake of factory closures following the US announcement that the former would no longer benefit from the African Growth and Opportunity Act's (AGOA) duty-free access to its markets from 1 January this year.

The Fashioning Accountability and Building Real Institutional Change (FABRIC) Act of 2022 that addresses issues in apparel manufacturing industry such as exploitation of essential workers, offshoring, and an ageing workforce, was introduced in the US House on 21 July.

Sustainability leader Genomatica (Geno) alongside longtime collaborator Aquafil have successfully completed the first demonstration scale production runs for plant-based nylon-6. The material will go to leading global brands and their value chain partners.

Seventeen individual nations and the European Union have decided to cooperate on strengthening supply chains, working to reduce and end near-term disruptions, and building long-term resilience in the backdrop to the shocks to global supply chains from pandemics, wars and conflicts, extreme climate impacts, and natural disasters.

Autumn 2022 will mark the launch of a landmark industry collaboration by three leading European retailers as a bespoke learning platform, under their aegis, will support their brand partners in setting climate targets aligned with science.

The challenging times not withstanding for US fashion companies coming from the macro-economy in 2022, particularly inflation and rising cost pressures, optimism rules, says the just released Benchmarking Survey by the United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA).

In a major embarrassment for UK on a day that London blistered with all-time high temperatures, the High Court ruled that the proposals as outlined in its Net-Zero strategy were too vague and inadequate.

An unpredictable future has forced Swedish giant H&M to pause all sales in Russia with steps being initiated to begin the process of winding up business in the country, promising also "support to all colleagues concerned" over the coming months.   

The circular fashion company Circ has announced over $30 million in Series B funding backed by the Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV) with additional investment from Inditex, Milliken & Company, Lansdowne Partners and Temasek.

A one of its kind dataset of jamdani motifs in digital format has been developed by students in Bangladesh in a bid to preserve the centuries old “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”.