Assessment of available tools for measuring GHG emissions
Webinar series: Textile Industry and Climate Change
Our impact to the fields of transformation
Opportunities and challenges in recyclability
Presentation of the project results on product cloning
Designing products to be sustainable and recyclable? That is possible, as a project of the working group recycling shows. Nine PST member companies nominated ten of their products and had them analysed by the University Niederrhein. The results have now been presented.
Voices on Textiles #2: Interview with Jürgen Janssen
PPA & PPSA for better purchasing practices and higher wages
Review Process 2021: Publication of Reports
36 Berichte ab heute online
The Review Process represents the individual responsibility of the companies in the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles (PST) to implement due diligence in their supply network. The aim of the Review Process is to analyse the most serious social, environmental and corruption risks and to prevent them effectively. Today, the PST publishes the first 34 Review Reports.
In presence and online: Working Meeting 2021
Handling the situation in Myanmar
Positions of the stakeholder groups in the steering committee
Since the military coup in Myanmar, the Partnership Secretariat has been informing the members of the Textiles Partnership on a weekly basis about current developments in the country. It turns out that the military is using increasing violence against opposition members and trade unionists.
Partnerships 2030: Factsheets on the SDGs
Advantages of multi-stakeholder partnerships in addressing complex challenges
How do multi-stakeholder partnerships (MAGPs) contribute to the successfully implementing of the 2030 Agenda? Partnerships2030 discusses this question in a factsheet series. In the factsheet on SDG1, the Textiles Partnership is listed as an example MAP.
Online Colloquium on Textile Wastewater Management
Free E-Learning on Chemical Management
E-Learning der GIZ auf der Lernplattform atingi
A new e-learning teaches the basics of chemicals management. The aim of the online training is, among other things, to raise awareness of health and environmental risks and to enable to perform risk analysis and implement measures accordingly international standards.
Due Diligence Risks and the Gender Data Gap
Due Diligence, Social Audits and Gender-Based Violence
UNFCCC Playbook: German version is now available
Panel Discussion "Future supply chain relations"
Fashion Charter publishes Playbook for Climate Action
New Guide to Supply Chain Transparency
Joint report of AGT and PST on responsible purchasing practices
OECD published results of the Alignment Assessment
101 roadmaps, 96 progress reports, 2 exclusions
Ten SDG on our agenda
Sustainable Man-Made Fibers: Call to viscose producers
Videos on chemical management in textile production available
International Women’s Day. Engagement for women and workers in south India
International Women’s Day. Engagement for women and workers in south India
A delegation of the Partnership Initiative Tamil Nadu is in the southern Indian state of the same name to mark today's International Women's Day. Together with its implementation partners and in dialogue with representatives of the local textile industry, it advocates the improvement of working conditions on the ground.
Textile Exchange and the Partnership for Sustainable Textiles to cooperate
Implementation of the Partnership Goals starts in 2017
Guidance for the collection of gender-disaggregated data
New guidance on gender data indicators
Although women make up the majority of employees in the textile indus-try, they are often overlooked in statistics. Systematic disadvantages and discrimination are not only detrimental to them personally, but also have negative consequences for the entire economy.
Circular Economy: PST participates in the Standardization Roadmap
Standardization Roadmap on circular economy
A Standardization Roadmap is intended to provide an overview of the status quo of standardization in the field of circular economy, describe requirements and challenges for seven key topics and identify and formulate the concrete need for action for future norms and standards.
OECD Forum: Textiles Partnership co-organises two side sessions
Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices
Comments still possible until 14 January
To achieve better purchasing practices, a group of different multi-stakeholder initiatives are developing the Common Framework for Responsible Purchasing Practices. It is intended to address companies and multi-stakeholder initiatives alike and serve as a guide to improving purchasing practices.
FEA study "CLOTHES with HOOKS"
Global environmental impact of the production of our clothing
The German Federal Environment Agency (FEA), a member of the Textiles Partnership, published the study "CLOTHES with HOOKS". In it, the UBA examines the global environmental impact of our consumption of clothing. One focus is water use in arid regions for raw materials and textile production.
Climate Action: Renewed Fashion Charter
Reference document for the Textiles Partnership
At the World Climate Conference in Glasgow, the Fashion Charter presented the new version of the Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action, which serves as a reference document for the Textiles Partnership and its members to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Launch of the Living Wage Lab
Zusammen für existenzsichernde Löhne
With the launch of the Living Wage Lab, the Partnership Initiative Living Wages entered a new phase. The aim of the Living Wage Lab is to support PST members in developing and implementing individual living wage strategies and to develop scalable solutions together with their suppliers.
Call for participation: Learning & Implementation Community
Call for participation: Learning & Implementation Community
Companies committed to sheding a light on their purchasing practices and making them more responsible are invited to join the Common Framework for Purchasing Practices' Learning & Implementation Community. Learn more about the Common Framework for Purchasing Practices
Supply Chain Transparency: Where do our members source from?
Online Trainings: Sheep Welfare in Wool Production
6th Members' Meeting
Review and recordings
"On track" was the topic of the 6th Members' Meeting of the Textiles Partnership on November, 24 and 25. In his welcoming address, Jürgen Janssen, head of the Partnership secretariat, emphasised that the course towards due diligence and sustainability is accurate, important and forward-looking.
Strategic Cooperation with the Open Apparel Registry
Companies write a letter to the Indian Government
Gemeinsamer Brief an die indische Regierung
49 companies, which purchase in India, have approached the Indian government with a joint letter. In the letter, they request Prime Minister Narendra Modi to maintain international labour standards. 14 Members of the Textiles Partnership have also signed the letter.
Partnership Initiative Wastewater starts
Responding responsibly to the COVID-19 crisis
Joint Statement
A coalition of ten international organisations working on better labour conditions for garment workers is calling on garment brands and governments for urgent action amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The experts on workers’ rights in global supply chains agreed on a joint vision on social protection and responsible business conduct during this crisis.
MSI-TN: 2nd Annual Conference
INNATEX: Benefit from multi actor partnerships
German Sustainability Day
Big stage for sustainable textile supply chains
The Partnership for Sustainable Textiles were present at the 12th German Sustainability Day in Düsseldorf. At our exhibition stand we informed about the work of the Textiles Partnership . Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development Dr. Gerd Müller also dropped by.
Partnership members purchase more than half of the organic cotton available worldwide
First dialogue fora in Tamil Nadu (India)
Dialogue fora were launched with the first annual conference
The multi-stakeholder initiative Tamil Nadu has a clear goal: to achieve improvements for the workers in the textile industry of South India. Dialogue forums are now being held to find solutions together. The annual conference in Coimbatore in March gave the go-ahead for the new exchange format.