Fair wear "Addressing excessive overtime through better purchasing practices: root causes and solutions" (PDF): Fair wear As part of its annual Brand Performance Check, assesses the efforts of its members to prevent and mitigate excessive overtime in their supply chains. The guide lists various causes of excessive overtime at brand and supplier level and identifies solutions, tools and processes that can prevent or mitigate the cause. The majority of garment workers surveyed said they experience violence and harassment during high season, when production pressures and overtime occur. In addition, garment workers who work overtime until late in the evening are exposed to the risk of harassment and violence on their way home in the dark.
apparel impact institute & Fashion for Good "Unlocking the Trillion-Dollar Fashion Decarbonisation Opportunity: Existing and innovative solutions" (PDF): The report assesses the emission reductions of existing and innovative solutions and calculates the financial needs needed to implement them on a large scale and bring the fashion industry to a net-zero level by 2050. The analysis shows that an estimated $1 trillion is needed to finance the decarbonization of the fashion industry by 2050. The authors estimate that 47% of CO2 reductions are achieved by implementing existing solutions, 39% by scaling innovative solutions, and 14% by other solutions - including reducing overproduction, improving material efficiency, and scaling circular business models.
canopy "Hot Button Report - Detailed Matrix of Viscose Producer Performance (2021 Edition)": More than 455 global brands have CanopyStyle Initiative It is committed to preventing the use of old and endangered forests for viscose and other cellulosic substances and to favouring textiles made from innovative fibres. In Hot button ranking Numerous viscose suppliers were analyzed for this purpose. Half of the world's viscose suppliers have qualified for the "Green Shirt" status; 74% can be audited voluntarily.
WikiRate "What does transparency mean for the largest 100 apparel companies?": This case study compiles new and existing information on supply chain transparency and environmental, social and governance (ESG) data from the 100 largest apparel companies. Nearly a third of apparel companies do not publish a recent report with sustainability information, and only half share information about their greenhouse gas emissions, for example. The data for the analysis was collected by the crowd-knowledge of 335 scientists, students and volunteers. The textile alliance companies also Adidas, Hugo Boss, H&M, Puma and Gerry Weber have been investigated.
Higg index: In 2011, the Sustainable Apparel Colatiion (sac) the Higg index It is a tool for measuring sustainability. To learn more about the Higg index to learn and how he could develop in the future, spoke FashionUnited with Jeremy Lardeau, the Vice-President of sac. The Higg index It consists of a core set of five instruments that assess the social and environmental balance of the value chain and the environmental impact of products in areas such as water consumption, carbon emissions and working conditions. Today, 21,483 companies in 119 countries use the Higg index It covers about 40% of the clothing, footwear and home textiles industries. In May, the first phase of Higg index-Transparency programme launched, a tool for public sharing of data on the environmental impact of a product. Objective of the sac is that 100% of all participants will have a publicly available assessment of their sustainability performance by 2025.
Coalition agreement: Coalition parties held their joint meeting last week. Coalition agreement presented. This Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) will be given to the SPD Let's go. The new government wants to address China's human rights violations (especially in Xinjiang). In addition, they want to SPD, FDP and green support an effective EU supply chain law and, if necessary, improve the German one. The EU's proposed ban on imports of forced labour products is also supported. Together with trade unions, companies and civil society, living wages are to be sought worldwide. Social security systems are also to be financed through an international financial instrument (Global Fund for Social Protection) are supported. The commitment to the development education work of civil society in Germany is also to be strengthened.
Myanmar: Vice Reports on the Textile workers in Myanmar who continue to suffer severely from military reprisals. In the report, workers talk about raids in the clothing factories. Often the employees of the management of the factories work for the junta as informants, including in the factory Gasan Apparel. The company's management had cooperated with the military and communicated the names of trade union leaders to the security forces. On November 9, a personnel manager of the factory Rui-Ning, by a civilian anti-Junta resistance group called Yangon Eagle He was murdered, who accused him of reporting on workers. Workers say he always threatened to call the military to arrest them. In March, a month after the coup, the regime imposed martial law on Yangon, the largest city in the country and a center of the clothing industry. Since then, women have had to pass military checkpoints on their way to work. Some of them are blackmailed for bribes or verbally and sexually harassed.
