Climate

Investors in Europe are increasingly opting for starups that have clear-cut sustainability commitments, with more than half of them having declined a startup investment opportunity in the last 12 months due to concerns about that company’s sustainability credentials. 

In its bid to remain an effective tool to drive continuous improvement and deliver sustainability impact at field-level, non-profit Better Cotton has revised its Principles & Criteria (P&C) to drive continuous improvement and deliver sustainability impact at field level.

In a “revolutionary” innovation that claims to reduce pollution and limits use of virgin fossil resources to make new products, H&M in association with Illinois-based LanzaTech has dropped polyester garments created partly from “captured emissions.”

The launch of the 'Reborn - China Fibre Zero Carbon Action 2023 — Sustainable Textiles Credible Platform' will now allow consumers in China to trace the process through the entire textiles and apparel industry chain from fibre to end-products.

In a bid to help increase yields and market access for smallholder farmers, promote decent work, reduce inequality, and drive women’s empowerment in cotton production, Better Cotton has come up with four new ‘Impact Targets’.

It is critical that apparel companies recognise the material importance of water in their sector, and the significance of their role as stewards of water resources. A minuscule number attempts to engage with their supply chains, despite the clear importance of this approach in mitigating the sector’s negative impact, according to a report by the Carbon Disclosure Project.

The Fossil-Free Fashion Scorecard 2023 reveals that the fashion industry’s decarbonisation progress over the past 18 months has been insufficient and extremely disappointing with only a few pockets of progress.

In a step to help the global textiles and apparel industry ramp up its efforts on facilitating collective action across the industry to deliver the 45% reduction needed by 2030 to limit global warming to 1.5°C, the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has launched a Decarbonization Guide for its members.

Electrification could pave the path to decarbonization of the textile sector and scientists have identified and analysed four separate electrification pathways that could lower the CO2 footprint of this industry.

The second edition of the 2023 Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor has rapped fashion and retail giants for "hiding climate inaction behind a fig leaf of net zero plans."