A new handbook guides companies on how to use the OECD due diligence framework for achieving living incomes and living wages in global supply chains. It builds on existing OECD standards and focuses on the agriculture, garment and footwear sectors where inadequate incomes and wages have been identified as prevalent risks.

A study by Fairtrade India in six of the top cotton-producing states claims that its certified organic cotton is associated with better environmental outcomes than non-Fairtrade cotton.

Seeking to address key challenges in the cotton sector, the Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA) has launched its Decent Work Strategy, a pivotal initiative aimed at improving working conditions and protection for organic cotton farmers, farm workers, and their communities.

Over 20 associations working in the leather industry across the world have urged the forthcoming climate COP29 to heed the voice of the leather sector in the development of policies and regulations needed to combat manmade climate change.

Young fashion designers from member states of the Eurpoean Union can design the official uniforms and win a trip to World Expo 2025.

Some 5,250 acres—an equivalent of approximately 3,000 football fields—will see training of 1,500 farmers, 900 of which will be women, as also sequestering of approximately 31,000 tonnes of CO2 under the aegis of a grant to an Indian nonprofit by the Hugo Boss Foundation.

Utilising partially renewable materials and formaldehyde-free chemistries, specialty chemicals major Archroma has come up with a printing system that combines newly created pigment black and customised auxiliaries for enhanced sustainability, comfort and durability.

Members of the multi-stakeholder Ethical Trading Initiative will soon need to publish details of their tier-1 suppliers on the Open Supply Hub, a collaborative data sharing platform hosting supplier data from around the world.

Smallholder cotton farmers are particularly vulnerable to climate change, and the lack of proper knowledge and understanding how crop insurance works during a climate crisis is putting them in peril, a new study conducted in two Indian states has found.

When it comes to circularity, the fashion sector scores high on ‘ambition and strategy’ and ‘goals and targets’, and has made strong progress with its circular ambitions and collaboration initiatives. But there is further potential in establishing new and increasing existing targets, implementing initiatives on a broader scale, and enhancing circular inflows and circular business models, says a KPMG report.