Ethiopia, China, and Germany have renewed their commitment to scale up their triangular cooperation aiming at improving the environmental, social, and labour standards in the textile sector in Ethiopia and beyond. texfash.com reports.

The global luxury industry that had lagged behind in adopting new technology is now accelerating the process with benefits being seen in increased fluidity of customer relations, operational excellence and reduction of the industry’s carbon footprint.

Notable changes in the ZDHC MRSL Version 3.0, to be published this November, include restriction on all PFAS substances for textile, leather, and footwear finishing, a limit for aniline in dyestuffs and the inclusion of a number of organic solvents. texfash.com reports.

The US Department of Agriculture has granted $30 million to support the expansion of climate-smart wool and cotton production on 135 farms and ranches spread across 2.1 million acres.

BioAce is part of a EU programme to develop high performance sportswear production of which will reduce overall emissions, waste and water compared to the production of garments made from virgin, petroleum-based synthetic fibres. texfash.com reports.

Trying out clothes at Walmart just got more interesting and compelling as its new virtual try-on technology — Be Your Own Model — allows customers to use their own photo to better visualise how clothing will look on them.

Charges of greenwashing against some MNCs has pushed Textile Exchange to effect a policy change to its Organic Content Standard (OCS), making site inputs from the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) mandatory in a bid to provide traceability of all transaction certificate data back to the original farm source and farm input.

The first ever cotton varieties bred under organic conditions, developed through a decentralised organic participatory breeding programme, have recently been made available to farmers in India. These improved varieties are the outcome of joint efforts made under the project Seeding the Green Future. The varieties were developed through a decentralised organic participatory breeding programme of FiBL Switzerland and partners.

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has selected the US Cotton Trust Protocol to lead the US Climate Smart Cotton Program with a funding ceiling of $90 million. This will be one of the 70 projects selected under the first pool of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity.

UK's CottonConnect and the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) have signed an agreement to work together on knowledge sharing, innovation, environmental sustainability assessment and joint project initiatives.