The HELP and HOPE acts helped create tens of thousands of jobs by attracting prominent American brands to source duty-free garments from Haiti. Losing them could spell disaster.

The Footwear Collective and Goodwill Southern California have joined forces to collect 30,000 pounds of end-of-life shoes for testing, with an eye on figuring out how they can best be recovered and funneled to secondary markets at scale.

Everyone wants a more sustainable fashion industry, but few are willing to dig into their own pockets to make it happen. Is change possible?

The latest edition of Global Fashion Agenda's CEO Agenda lists as "cross-cutting accelerators" innovation, capital, incentives, regulation and courage.

Without electrification—particularly the use of what's known as clean heat—renewable targets run the risk of being feeble and ineffective, a new report says.

Forests—and the climate—cannot afford another year of inaction, said Canopy CEO Nicole Rycroft.

Anne-Laure Descours, former chief sourcing officer at Puma, is joining Haelixa, a Swiss DNA-marking traceability firm, as a board member.

Researchers found that Indigenous territories can effectively reduce the risk of vector-borne or zoonotic diseases if they’re located in municipalities with at least 40% forest cover.

The barely 1 percent increment won’t even cover inflation, which is expected to rise to 2.5 percent in 2025 before softening to 2.3 percent in 2026.

While methane is roughly 200 times less abundant than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, it’s also capable of trapping more than 80 times as much heat.

The tool combines the Higg Index's primary dataset with dozens of external sources to provide insights across carbon and energy, water, heat stress, extreme events and facility benchmarking.

Hundreds of factories have been forced to suspend production because of liquidity issues, the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association said.

"This is not the outcome we want, but it is the most responsible path for our stakeholders at present," CEO Steve Zika said in a statement.

For one thing, the 30-month grace period to set up EPR schemes following the law’s entry into force is too long, they say.

The current domestic textile-handling system is economically at odds with market and regulatory realities, according to an upcoming report from Accelerating Circularity and Accenture.

Two recent cases in Myanmar and Cambodia highlight a chilling trend of suppliers using criminalization to silence labor rights defenders in the region.

Extreme heat, exacerbated by climate breakdown, is turning into a full-blown health and safety crisis. What is the fashion industry doing about it?

The call for a monthly floor salary of at least $232 isn't "merely a request," but rather an "urgent necessity," more than two dozen trade unions and civil society organizations said.

A new toolkit from the Fair Labor Association provides a "detailed, actionable, step-by-step guide" to ensure workers can voice complaints and seek remedy.

As consumers become increasingly alarmed by "buyer beware" headlines about the toxic chemicals that might be lurking in their fit checks, so, too, are investors.

Climate Rights International's report paints a distressing portrait of what it describes as a crisis "unfolding at the intersection of climate change and labor exploitation."

Despite years of activist campaigning and a bevy of promises from major brands to work toward living wages, Pakistan's garment sector still has little to show for it.

Women, many of them single mothers, make up the majority of the secondhand clothing market's retailers, yet no one can speak to their lived experience. The Kantamanto Women's Association wants to change that.

The South Asian nation's interim government has requested that the office of the U.S. Trade Representative schedule a third and final round of negotiations to potentially strike a better deal.

The Solidarity Center has seen progress on collective bargaining and unionization around the world stall in the three months since the foreign aid shakeups.

Labor and environmental campaigners showed up during the Zara owner's annual meeting to demand action over the Spanish conglomerate's "severe" environmental and human rights failures.

Israeli soldiers opened fire near a food distribution site in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing at least 32 people, Gazan health authorities said. The UN said this past week that more than 670 Palestinians had been killed in similar episodes near aid sites.

Bangladesh has been continuously thwarted by socioeconomic instability. What will it mean if cost-sensitive brands abandon it for cheaper geographies?

With no renewal of AGOA in sight and a potential 50 percent tariff, the future of the small southern African nation is a bleak one.

Deficiencies in the Everything Store’s due diligence requirements for third-party sellers have created blind spots where labor abuses can thrive, according to a new report.

The preliminary ruling by the Milan Tribunal marks the fifth time prosecutors have peeled back the hallowed reputations of some of Italy’s most valuable brands.

The Trump administration's tariffs are already making their mark at the checkout line. These are the companies that have said prices are heading higher.

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"We hope there is a breakthrough in the next three weeks," Cambodia’s trade group for apparel, footwear and travel goods manufacturers said of the White House's recently announced 35 percent tariff rate.

France's AGEC law requires companies to alert consumers to the possibility of plastic microfiber release during laundering whenever the proportion of synthetic materials in a product is greater than 50 percent.

In its first position paper, the T2T Alliance outlines policies that will help the textile-to-textile recycling sector scale in Europe.

"Cruz inserted language into the Republicans’ 'big beautiful' reconciliation bill, prior to its signing by Donald Trump on Friday, that eliminates a $150m fund to 'accelerate advances and improvements'...around weather forecasting."

Two recent reports cast doubt on whether the industry's climate plans are riddled with more than half measures and critical omissions.

The idea behind the Fashion Impact Toolkit is to translate sector-wide impacts into company-specific ones, according to Global Fashion Agenda and Deloitte.

My daughter and I were talking about how Hans claims the Arendelle throne when he thinks Anna is dead in the "Frozen" musical. While a fictitious nation might have different succession rules, those wouldn't apply in real life. Even if Hans was related to them, he has 12 older brothers.

My daughter asked me what "Downton Abbey" was about because I mentioned that when I win the lottery, I'm taking the fancy train to Highclere Castle, where it's filmed, and I said, "People with big feelings in beautiful surroundings, wearing pretty clothes. And two people get pernicious anemia."

Harsh Saini, a member of its board of directors, most recently served as executive vice president for sustainability and public affairs at Li & Fung.

A small but growing number of footwear companies are using "biodegradable" and "compostable" as selling points. What does that mean, exactly?

Fruit of the Loom closed its last two unionized cut-and-sew facilities in Honduras. Next did the same with its only unionized factory in Sri Lanka. Were economic reasons the true cause?

The Apparel and Textile Transformation Initiative, a project of the International Apparel Federation and International Textile Manufacturers' Association, seeks to redress the industry's manufacturer blind spot.

Amid what many say is the fashion industry's "sustainability retreat," Textile Exchange's new five-year strategy seeks a "hard-nosed, clear, direct way" to meet ambitious climate targets.

The European Commission proposed amendments to the corporate sustainability due diligence directive are more aggressive than those of the omnibus bill, signaling further deregulation.

A new report says that companies like Coach are buying leather from suppliers linked to illegal cattle ranches in the most deforested parts of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest.

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While framed as a way to relieve regulatory burdens, the move is being seen as another sign of the European Union's "sustainability retreat."