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Retailers slammed for hiding from safety pledges
Nine years since a deadly fire at a major Bangladesh garment supplier, campaigners are urging Walmart and other retailers to
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Greenpeace calls for laws to curb fashion’s excesses
HAMBURG – The global fashion industry will not address its destructive impact on the climate without regulation, according to a
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FibreTrace launches traceable Benin cotton pilot
GLO-DJIGBÉ – Traceable textile specialist FibreTrace has announced a partnership with industrial park developer Arise Integrated Industrial Platforms (Arise IIP)
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US$1 trillion to decarbonise fashion supply chains
WASHINGTON – Decarbonising global fashion supply chains to achieve a net-zero fashion industry by 2050 will cost more than one
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Xinjiang cotton reaching fashion supply chains
SHEFFIELD – Banned cotton from Xinjiang in China is still making its way into global fashion supply chains and final
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GPS tracking sting finds Nike destroying returned trainers
OREGON – US sportswear brand Nike is destroying newly returned trainers, according to a team of investigative journalists from Germany.
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Fashion supply chain costs soaring, survey finds
LONDON – The era of sourcing-cost price deflation in fashion supply chains is over, according to a new survey of
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Shein suppliers flouting labour laws, exposé finds
GUANGZHOU – An undercover exposé found that suppliers of Chinese ultra-fast fashion brand Shein have been seriously flouting labour laws,
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PEF label concerns raised in Norwegian parliament
OSLO – Concerns have been raised in the Norwegian Parliament about whether the EU’s planned labelling scheme, Product Environmental Footprint
Germany to bring in supply chain laws this year
17th February 2021
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BERLIN – German Ministers have announced that new laws on due diligence in global supply chains will be passed before the country’s elections in autumn
Clean Clothes calls for global safety treaty
17th February 2021
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AMSTERDAM – Clean Clothes Campaign has called for an international safety agreement governing the global garment industry. The NGO claims last week’s tragedy in Tangier,
SBTi initiative accused of conflicts of interest
17th February 2021
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NEW YORK – One of the original instigators of the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) and a member of its Technical Advisory Group has submitted
SAC ramps up Higg requirements for members
17th February 2021
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SAN FRANCISCO – The Sustainable Apparel Coalition will require all members to develop a 3-year plan to deploy Higg Index self-assessments and verification within own
