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Funding Nature / Climate Fund

13 December 2022

2 minutes
If the world is to meet its climate change, biodiversity, and land degradation targets, investment in nature-based solutions should at least triple by 2030 and increase four-fold by 2050.

Kering, L'Occitane Launch €300 million Climate Fund for Nature

A €140 million commitment from luxury majors Kering and L’Occitane Group for a Climate Fund for Nature will mobilise resources to protect and restore nature, with focus on women's empowerment.

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Going Circular / Polybags

13 December 2022

3 minutes
An estimated 180 billion polybags are produced every year to store, transport and protect apparel and footwear. Their production, use and end-of-use have a significant impact: conventional virgin polybags have a high carbon footprint and low recycling rates across the globe.

Fashion for Good Launches Project to Test Alternatives to Single-Use Polybags with C&A and Levi Strauss

Fashion for Good innovators TIPA Corp and Greenhope are pilot testing their bio-based innovative bags for key performance and quality properties such as transparency, durability and longevity, as alternatives to conventional single-use polybags.

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Event Report / WTMC 2022

12 December 2022

2 minutes
Since China is getting expensive, some production has moved to other parts of Asia. However, what has helped is that Chinese entrepreneurs have invested in overseas factories. Plus, for the last three years China has been promoting online “matching and fairs".

Lockdown Effect: China Promoting Online Matching and Fairs

Even as the business of textiles-fashion has seen a hit in post-COVID China, raging intermittently now too, what is surprising is the continuing rise in its total basket of exports. texfash.com reports.

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Climate Action / Decarbonisation

9 December 2022

2 minutes
Eliminating coal in manufacturing: replacing coal with renewable energy in all manufacturing facilities is one of the six areas of intervention identified by the Sustainable Apparel Coalition.

Sustainable Apparel Coalition Launches Decarbonisation Drive Based on Science-Based Targets

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has launched a Decarbonisation Programme which will focus on collaboration, member support and delivering tools and guidance to make achieving these targets possible.

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GHG Emissions / Transparency

9 December 2022

3 minutes
Klarna has partnered with third-party automated software providers to estimate the CO₂e emissions of all purchases.

Klarna Ties Up with Vaayu and Doconomy to Show Carbon Data of 50 million Fashion Items to Shoppers

Fintech leader Klarna’s upgraded CO2e tracker will use Vaayu's technology to automatically calculate carbon emissions for more than 50 million fashion purchases on a product-level in real-time.

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Climate Action / Renewable Energy

9 December 2022

2 minutes
The Fashion Pact claims to follow a science-based approach where its methodology requires multi-stakeholder involvement and long-term research and development to identify innovative joint actions that will be piloted, tested, and scaled to reach tipping points in the sustainable transformation of the industry.

CEO-led Initiative Fashion Impact Announces Renewable Energy Project

The Fashion Pact, an initiative of 75 CEOs from the world’s leading fashion brands, has launched a project that seeks to accelerate renewable energy adoption in the industry.

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Footwear Innovation / Balena

9 December 2022

2 minutes
Balena has debuted its "fully compostable slides" for both men and women, designed and manufactured in Italy and made entirely of BioCir, by dropping the first thousand pairs in the company's hometown, Tel Aviv.

Israel's Balena Launches Footwear That's Compostable and Biodegradable

With the debut of its cinnamon-scented slides – made entirely out of Balena's game-changing, fully compostable and biodegradable material – the company is setting new standards for durable, flexible and sustainable alternatives to plastics in fashion.

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Acquisition / Traceability

8 December 2022

3 minutes
The TextileGenesis platform captures shipments across 5-6 supply tiers, from sustainable fibre-origin to retail i.e. 'fibre forwards' approach to traceability and not garment-backwards.

First Big Traceability Acquisition: Lectra Acquires Majority Stake in TextileGenesis for €15.2

Traceabilty sector just got the first big push as Lectra reported acquisition of 51% of the capital and voting rights of TextileGenesis for a whopping €15.2 million. The TextileGenesis system creates radical transparency from fibre to retail, and ensures authenticity & provenance of sustainable textiles against generics.

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  • Staff Writer
Climate Action / Sweden Call

8 December 2022

2 minutes
Locals look at burning forest during a wildfire on the island of Evia, Greece. When trees die by fire, they release into the atmosphere the carbon stored within them. This is why the effect of wildfires on emissions is among the most feared climate feedback loops – that the world’s forests, which have typically been carbon sinks, would become carbon sources, unleashing all that stored gas.

Pace of Emission Reduction is Too Slow: Swedish Textile-Fashion Initiative Calls for Further Legislative Action

Achieving a carbon neutral apparel and textiles industry will be dependent on robust and efficient climate legislation, and to halve emissions in upstream production by 2030, the industry will need to decarbonise every stage of the process, says a position paper.

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  • Staff Writer
SecondHand / UK Market

8 December 2022

3 minutes
ACS cleans and repairs second-hand items, making them resale ready, as well as arranging the logistics of item listing and delivery. The eBay platform will connect its millions of shoppers worldwide with this stock.

Second-hand Clothes Get a Market Boost as ACS partners with eBay UK

Cashing in on the growing ‘resale economy’ in the UK, Advanced Clothing Solutions (ACS) has partnered with online marketplace eBay to help brands and retailers create and scale up resale offerings.

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