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Building Circularity in the Textiles Value Chain
Initiatives
Circularity in the Textiles Value Chain Initiatives
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While addressing production impacts is essential, doing so alone will not be sufficient to transform the industry in time...
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Edition 34 - Textiles newsletter June 2023
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The Executive Summary is available in all UN official languages Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Russian. 7...
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Taking Thailand’s T&A sector as a case study, this paper aims to draw on useful insights that could be shared with other...
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This document provides a short overview of recent and upcoming projects, publications, campaigns, and communication...
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This policy programme sets out the policy for circular textile for the next years. It is important for this policy and the...
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Growing inequality, the climate breakdown and diminishing resources are challenging our planet and society. These challenges...
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Each year millions of tonnes of clothes are produced, worn, and thrown away. Every second, the equivalent of a rubbish truck...
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This report focuses on the financial risks arising from the extensive use and misuse of water in the wet processing stage of...
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The Indian fashion and textile industry contends with challenges that mirror those in the global landscape. The importance of...
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COVID-19 and Green Jobs By the end of April 2020, 2.3 billion workers were living in countries with mandatory or recommended...
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Increasingly, consumers are realizing that it is possible to shop affordably and sustainably for exclusive, high-quality, and...
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UNEP is seeking an Implementing Partner to support its impact assessment work on sustainable economic pathways for sustainable and circular textiles, which is implemented in the context of the EU-funded InTex project.
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The analysis, which explores the economics of circular models at a garment level, is the first of its kind in the industry. They have undertaken a detailed analysis of three circular business models; Rental, Subscription-Rental and Recommerce, across...
Webinars, podcasts and events
- Webinar recording: How global biodiversity data can help the fashion industry restore nature, run by IBAT
- Documentary film: Textile Mountain, released by the Irish Environmental Network
- Materials from UNECE's Multi-Stakeholder Policy Dialogue: Accelerating action for Sustainable and Circular Value Chains in Garment & Footwear
- Materials from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s seminar, Dialogue for a sustainable textile value chain focusing on environment and chemicals, 7 October 2020
- UNEP/GGKP, Report launch - Sustainability and Circularity in the Textile Value Chain, 20 October 2020
- UNEP/CEFAST, Accelerating action for Sustainable & Circular Value Chains in Garment & Footwear, 23&24 November, Geneva and online
- World Circular Economy Forum 13-15 September 2021, Toronto, Canada
- Podcast series from the Sustainable Fashion Academy, Big closets small planet
- WRAP, Can we really do this? Achieving a 1.5 degree carbon trajectory in the UK textiles sector, 10 November 3pm-4pm GMT
- ILO International Training Center (ITCILO), webinar, 'Promising practices in advancing equality and non-discrimination in the garment sector', 18 November, 2:30pm Bangkok Time
- Global Fashion Agenda, Circular Fashion Event, 30 November, 3-5 p.m. CET
- Textile Exchange, Round Tables Summit, 7-18 December
- FashMash Pioneers, Talk on Fashion's Biodiversity Strategy with Dr Helen Crowley, recording available here
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Fashion shows, watch the full recording of the five shows here
- Univision interview, Biodiversity and Textile Industry, in Spanish, 11 February 2021
- WRAP, Textiles 2030 virtual launch event, 26 April 2021, 1:30 p.m. GMT
- CFP, Circular Fashion Partnership Event; 16th June 2021, for more info contact cfp@globalfashionagenda.com
- Fashionomics Online Masterclass, for African entrepreneurs and industry experts, 30 April 2021, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m., sign up here
- The Role of Media in Branding African Fashion, Fashionomics Africa Webinar Series, 31 May 2021 12:00 p.m. - 2 P.M.GMT, register here
- UN Environment Management Group, in parterneship with the UN Alliance for Sustainable Fashion, UNCTAD, UNEP, UNECE, UNESCO, UNFCCC, and ILO, Sustainable Recovery through Sustainable Fashion: A Focus on the Environmental Dimensions, 7 September 2021, more information here
- UNEP, Accelerating sustainability in the textile value chain, inspiring action and behaviour change, 15 September 2021, more information here
