Herausgeber*in: Textile Exchange

Schlagwörter: Baumwollanbau, Bodenbeschaffenheit, Klimawandel, Lieferkette, Nachhaltigkeit, regenerative Landwirtschaft, Textilien, Schafswolle, Umweltbelastung

Kurzbeschreibung:

With companies risking disruptions to fiber production from climate impacts and biodiversity loss, at Textile Exchange we believe that a transition to regenerative agriculture is fundamental to the long-term health of the sector. Regenerative practices can play a key role in helping farmers develop more resilient systems, bringing immense social and environmental benefits.

The Regenerative Agriculture Landscape Analysis offers a deeper understanding of tools, programs, initiatives, and guidance on the subject. It highlights how important it is for brands to clearly define their own use of the term, and to ensure that social justice, equity, and livelihoods are meaningfully embedded in any project deemed regenerative.

Key takeaways:

• The long-term health of the fashion and textile industry will depend on how it is able to work with farmers to develop more resilient systems, and regenerative practices offer immense social and environmental benefits
• Regenerative agriculture can’t be defined in a single statement or set of practices.
• Programs should be rooted in justice, equity and livelihoods.
• Regenerative agriculture is about much more than increasing soil carbon levels.
• We need to move out of silos to speed up the transition.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2022

Sprache: Englisch

Umfang: 111 Seiten

Zielgruppe: Studierende, Dozierende, Beschaffer*innen

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Herausgeber_in: ECOS

Autor_in: Valeria Botta, Ivo Cabra

Schlagwörter: Bekleidungsindustrie, Chemikalien, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Klimawandel, Lebenszyklus, Mikroplastik, Qualität, Recycling, Reparierbarkeit, Siegel, Textile Kette, Textilindustrie, Umweltverschmutzung, Wasserverbrauch

Kurzbeschreibung:

Textile products have a tremendous ecological footprint at all stages of their lives. As more clothes are produced, consumed, and thrown away than ever before, the current linear, take-make-dispose model followed by the textile industry is putting an enormous pressure on our planet – its resources, environment, and climate.
This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the current situation and goes on to explore the policies and standardisation actions needed to advance towards circular textiles, building on the lessons learnt from the implementation of the ecodesign approach in other sectors.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 32 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: Water Witness International

Autor_in: Nick Hepworth, Rami Narte, Esayas Samuel, Serge Neumand

Schlagwörter: Afrika, Äthiopien, Bekleidungsindustrie, Corona, Globalisierung, Klima, Klimawandel, Lieferkette, Marken, Marokko, soziale Verantwortung, Textilindustrie, Umweltverschmutzung, Wasserverbrauch

Kurzbeschreibung:

This report is an output of the ‘Putting Water Stewardship to Work Programme‘ which aims to embed responsible water use at the heart of the growing textiles and apparel sectors in Africa. With support from the Swiss Agency for Development Cooperation (SDC), the initiative targets technical support to ‘sherpa’ countries in the fashion value chain to establish the value of improved water stewardship for the sector, for delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals and for shared water security (see boxed definitions). Lessons will be shared across Africa, and across the global fashion sector to support the transition to sustainable resource use. Our study explores the importance of the textile and apparel sector for economic and social development in Africa and identifies the priority water challenges facing the industry. It complements related studies on the cotton sector, at a national scale in Ethiopia, and in the textiles and apparel sector globally.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 100 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: PACE Platform for Accelerating the circular economy

Autor_in: Alvise Lisca, Jessica Feeley, Andrés Oliva Lozano, Ke Wang

Schlagwörter: Bekleidungsindustrie, Circular Economy, Klimawandel, Kreislaufwirtschaft, Lieferketten, Menschenrechte, Nachhaltigkeit, Transformation, Umweltaspekte

Kurzbeschreibung:

Textiles have long been an integral part of our daily lives and society, providing employment for hundreds of millions of people and creating tremendous economic value. However, the industry’s significant ecological footprint, as well as its health and social risks, have come under increasing scrutiny. There is urgent need for transformation.
How can circular strategies contribute? Three objectives have been formulated based on converging visions of a circular economy for textiles: inputs for textiles are safe and recycled or renewable; textiles are kept in use for longer; and textiles are recyclable and recycled at end-of-use.
Researchers have already documented the challenges from the textiles value chain today, the need for a transition to a circular economy, and the systemic change required for the transition. This report builds on the existing literature to identify the actions needed for a better and faster transition to a circular economy for textiles. Each report has four main chapters: Objectives, Impact, Barriers, and Actions

Erscheinungsjahr: 2021

Umfang: 56 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

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Herausgeber_in: Stand.earth

Autor_in: Gary Cook and Maya Rommwatt

Zielgruppe: Beschaffer_innen, Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: faire Beschaffung, Klima, Klimawandel, Lieferkette, Nachhaltigkeit, Soziale Verantwortung, Tipps für in der Bekleidungsbranche Tätige, Umweltschäden

Kurzbeschreibung:

The fashion industry pollutes the planet and the communities that form the backbone of its supply chains with more climate pollution than aviation. Yet it needs increasingly value-driven customers if brands are to return from the brink of disaster wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. This report outlines 5 steps fashion brands must take to drawdown their emissions rapidly, including setting ambitious climate commitments with full transparency, centering renewable energy in supply chain decisions with specific commitments to phase out coal, advocating for renewable energy policies in supply chain countries, sourcing lower carbon and longer lasting materials, and reducing the climate impacts of shipping.

Erscheinungsjahr: 2020

Sprache: Englisch

Umfang: 31 Seiten

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Herausgeber_in: Global Fashion Agenda & The Boston Consulting Group

Autor_in: Jonas Eder-Hansen, Caroline Chalmer, Sofia Tärneberg, Thomas Tochtermann, Javier Seara, Sebastian Bogner, Gabriele Theelen, Sebastian Schwarz, Lise Kristensen, Kristina Jäger

Zielgruppe: Student_innen, Erwachsene

Medien: Hintergrundinformationen

Schlagwörter: Arbeitsbedingungen, Bekleidungsindustrie, Circular Economy, Globalisierung, Klima, Klimawandel, Lieferkette, Lohn, Marken, Menschenrechtsverletzungen, Mindestlohn, soziale Verantwortung, Textilindustrie, Umweltverschmutzung

Kurzbeschreibung:

This first edition of the Report on the Pulse of the Fashion Industry exposes the challenges in a number of sustainability impact areas and along the industry’s value chain, from design and development to end-of-life for apparel and footwear. It aims to provide transparency on the industry’s stance in terms of its environmental, social, and ethical footprints— topics that have been much debated, yet without a common baseline and framework against which to evaluate change. It also reviews ways in which the industry can maintain and even strengthen its profitability despite the pressures of rising costs.

The overarching objective of the report is to provide a direction and guidance towards a better fashion industry. As a starting point, the report provides a common fact base on the current sustainability performance of the industry. Based on that it lays out a Landscape for Change and presents pragmatic, concrete, and economical actions that are already available for producing palpable change. The report promotes collaboration and innovation as main drivers to accelerate change.

The performance is regularly updated once a year: https://www.globalfashionagenda.com/publications-and-policy/pulse-of-the-industry/

Erscheinungsjahr: 2017

Umfang: 134 Seiten

Sprache: Englisch

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