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Bente Bauer

Co-Founder & Director 2B Policy
Bente Bauer

Bente Bauer is Co-Founder & Director at 2B Policy. 2B Policy bridges the gap between real-world business challenges and a fast-moving legislative landscape. Based in Amsterdam, Brussels, and Berlin, her team empowers companies and organisations in the consumer goods and services sectors to make sense of complex sustainability regulations and turn them into strategic action.

 
 
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Event Report / NFC 2025 Report
Anne Gillespie highlighted how an area the size of Egypt was being downgraded to Land Degradation Neutrality (UN Sustainable Development Goal 15.3) each year.

Experts Debate Sustainability, Carbon Impact, and Policy Future at Natural Fibre Connect

  • Charles Ross

29 September 2025
Event Preview / Intertex Tunisia Interview
Tunisia’s textiles and apparel sector employs more than 160,000 people, accounting for over 40% of industrial jobs, with women forming around three-quarters of the workforce.

Global Buyers View Tunisia as Strategic Nearshoring Hub for Diversified and Resilient Supply Chains

  • Subir Ghosh

30 September 2025
 
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Policy Issues / Discussion Matters Analysis
European industry events increasingly focus on legislation, with entire policy tracks at conferences like Textile Exchange, reflecting how regulatory frameworks now steer sustainability debates and business strategies across the continent.

From 'Bürokratiemonster' to Pragmatism: Two Perspectives on Textile Legislation

  • Bente Bauer

2 October 2025
Counterfeits / New Tech Commentary
Counterfeit fashion thrives in crowded street markets, where low-quality imitations masquerade as luxury. Such trade fuels a multitrillion-dollar economy, undermining genuine artisans and eroding consumer trust worldwide.

Europe Moves to Embed Proof in Textiles as Counterfeits Reach Trillion-Dollar Scale

  • Subir Ghosh

2 October 2025
 
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Printing Sector / New Milestone Report
Living Ink’s patented pigment production process repurposes discarded algae biomass— sourced from the nutritional supplement industry—into stable, carbon-sequestering pigment.

Living Ink and Crocs Achieve Commercial Printing Milestone with Algae-Based CMYK Ink Tech

  • Richa Bansal

11 August 2025
Cotton Production / ICAC Study Analysis
Cotton’s "reputation" as a water-hungry crop has long shaped sustainability narratives, but new global data drills holes in that unsubstantiated theory. With 75% of its water needs met by rainfall and just 1.59% of global irrigation attributed to cotton, the real challenge lies in improving irrigation efficiency, not vilifying the fibre.

Cotton’s Water Myth Busted: New Global Study Exposes Flawed 'Thirsty Crop' Claims

  • Subir Ghosh

10 July 2025