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Dear all, we hope that you are staying safe and well.This is a busy period and it’s great to see so many events on sustainable and circular fashion – wereally enjoy ‘meeting’ members of our community at many of these virtual events!At UNEP, we have been holding consultations and are making great progress on our upcomingreport, outlining a roadmap to greater sustainability and circularity in the textile value chain. Welook forward to sharing the report with you all later this year!As always, thank you for keeping us updated and please do keep on sending your news for us toshare in our newsletter and on our website.We hope you enjoy reading this update and look forward to continuing to be in touch!Upcoming Events
In preparation for World Environment Day on 5thJune, the EU in partnership with UNEP and theSouthAfricanGovernmentinviteyoutocelebrate the end of the implementation of theSupport to Green Business component underSWITCH Africa Green and the launch ofthe InTex project (Innovative Business Practicesand Economic Models in the Textile Value Chain)in South Africa. View the event programme hereand follow the event live at this link today (June4th) at 11h00 to 12h45 CEST / SAST.The Italian G20 Presidency and the EuropeanUnion invite you to the G20 Resource EfficiencyDialogue Workshop on Circular Fashion, whichwill be held on June 7th at 12:00 – 15:00 CEST.The workshop is designed to inform discussions inthe G20 Environment track as part of the ItalianG20 Presidency priority on Circular Economy. Itwill explore the G20’s role in promoting theCircularEconomyinthefashionsector,exploring how circular business models can helpthefashionsectorimproveeconomic,environmental, and social performance. UNEP’sHead of the Consumption and Production Unit,Elisa Tonda, will be speaking alongside othersfromourtextileexpertcommunity!Register here to participate via Webex.
TextileExchange is runningawebinaron Creating Material Change – The State of theSector in 2020 on June 9th at 10:00 – 11:00EDT. This webinar will provide a snapshot of thelatest insights on fibre and material sourcing in thetextiles sector, drawing on the 2020 MaterialChange Index and Insights. After a quick tour ofthe results and new tools, the webinar will dive intoQ&A so you can learn directly from the experts.Those interested can register here to participate.
Jointhelaunchwebinarforthe InTexproject on 15th June at 11:00 CEST. InTex is athree-year project led by UNEP and funded by theEuropean Union (EU) to promote sustainablebusiness practices and economic models in thetextile value chain. The InTex project has fivecomponents: two components with a global reach,and three components that focus on nationalimplementation in three countries in Africa: Kenya,SouthAfrica,andTunisia.Thenationalcomponents aim to increase the uptake of ecoinnovation and use of Product ncorporating a strong component on LCA datageneration. The launch will feature insights on therole of circularity and the textile value chain fromUNEP, the EU, and InTex partners. Interested injoining the virtual launch? Register here.The Circular Fashion Partnership invites you tojoin an upcoming event on Policy Gaps andOpportunitiesforcircularfashionin– 16.00Bangladesh on June 16th at 14:00Bangladesh Standard Time or 10:00 – 12:00CEST. Join to learn more about the circularfashionbusinessmodeltheyhavebeendeveloping together with leading manufacturers,brands, and recyclers in Bangladesh, and todiscuss opportunities and how to overcomebarriers to accelerate the transition to a circularindustry that distributes value across all actors.The event brings together prominent policy
makers and industry executives to explore howBangladesh can become a leader in circularfashion - follow this link to register.Circle Economy have released a report couplingthe research conducted by Circle Economyand HIVA for the Putting Circular Textiles toWork project. This research has been conductedto support the Dutch clothing industry in ensuringa just transition to a circular economy. Theresearch finds that prioritising reuse and repairstrategies could create 24,286 new full-timeequivalents (FTEs) in repair and maintenance and4,611 FTEs in second-hand sales, as well as shift17,319FTEsfromfirst-tosecond-handsales. Following the official launch on June 2nd, aproject webinar will be held on June 21st at 15.00- 16.00 CEST, for which you can register here.Thoseinterestedcan also downloadthereport or a shorter briefing and snapshot report.News
At an informal virtual policy dialogue held on19th May and hosted by the United NationsEconomic Commission for Europe (UNECE),members of the UN Alliance for SustainableFashion andstakeholdersofthe Moldovanfashion industry came together to discuss thepotential of this sector to contribute to thecountry’s implementation of the 2030 Agenda forSustainableDevelopment.Thediscussionfocused on challenges currently facing the fashionand textiles sector in Moldova with regardto becomingmoresustainable; representatives fromUNEP,theInternational Trade Centre, the UN Conference onTrade and Development, the International LabourOrganization and the UN Industrial es, consideringtogethertotacklealso recenttooffertheseCOVID-19impacts. Read the full press release on thepolicy dialogue here.
UNECE recently launched ‘The SustainabilityPledge’ formeasurableandverifiablesustainability in the garment and footwear sector,as a Call to Action for greater Traceability andTransparency in the sector. In addition to thePledge, a toolkit of policy recommendations,guidelines and standards endorsed by UNECEmember States has been put together to providetraceability and transparency solutions for trackingany garment or item of footwear from footwearofinvitespurchase. Thegovernments,manufacturers,andindustry stakeholders to pledge to apply this toolkitof measures and take a positive step als of the sector. You can read the fullpress release here and register your actions upto 10th September! Feel free also to sharewith yournetworksusing thehashtag#TheSustainabilityPledge and tagging @UNECE!Have your say!
You may be interested in joining the workshop onsustainableconsumptionandcircularbusiness models in the textile sector, to be runby the EU Commission on June 15th at 9.00 13.00 CEST. This will be the third in a series oftargeted stakeholder workshops to gather input onchallenges and gaps as well as opportunities forthe sector towards sustainability. The workshopaims to identify barriers and solutions, includingpolicy measures, to promote consumption withhigher value retention and lower n needs of consumers in relation . Moreover, the workshop strives toidentifyrecommendationsforpromoting,enforcing, reporting, monitoring and training inrelationtoGreenPublicProcurement.Toparticipate, preregister via this link by June 4th.
The EU Commission is also running a publicconsultation ontheEUstrategyforsustainable textiles. Input is welcome fromactors along the textile value chain, as well aspublic authorities, citizens, consumers and socialpartners, investors and research, innovation andtraining centres. The European Green Deal andthe Circular Economy Action Plan, as well as the2020 Industrial Strategy, all identified the textilesector as a priority sector where the potential forcircularity is high and therefore key for thetransition towards a more sustainable and circulareconomy. This initiative aims to help the EU shiftto a climate-neutral, circular economy whereproducts are designed to be more durable,reusable, repairable and recyclable. Contributeyour opinion via the online questionnaire by 4thAugust!In case you know of other people interested in receiving our news, feel free to share this link to sign up for our textilesnewsletter. You can find our previous newsletter editions here.
and follow the event live at this link today (June 4th) at 11h00 to 12h45 CEST / SAST. The Italian G20 Presidency and the European Union invite you to the G20 Resource Efficiency Dialogue Workshop on Circular Fashion, which will be held on June 7th at 12:00 - 15:00 CEST. The workshop is designed to inform discussions in
