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Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia
Sustainable Fashion: A Focus on the Environmental Dimensions discussion
On 7 September, the ILO participated in the Sustainable Recovery through Sustainable Fashion: A Focus on the Environmental Dimensions discussion.
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Circular economy
Advancing a just transition to a circular economy: Scaling up individual action to collectively driving systemic change
An event co-organized by the ILO and the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE)
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19-23 April 2021: ILO Green Week
“Strategies on Reducing and Utilizing CO2 for Cost Effective Business” Roundtable
As part of the Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia project, the ILO is partnering with the UN ESCAP Sustainable Business Network to bring together the textile and garment sector and the cement industry to share, discuss and further CO2 reduction activities.
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Decent Work in the Garment Sector Supply Chains in Asia
Roundtable: Strategies on reducing and utilizing CO2 for cost effective business
As part of the Decent Work in Garment Supply Chains Asia project, the ILO is partnering with the UN ESCAP Sustainable Business Network to bring together the textile and garment sector and the cement industry to share, discuss and further CO2 reduction activities.
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Event
Drivers of innovation for environmental sustainability in the garment sector
Achieving environmental sustainability in the garment sector demands innovation and organisational change across the entire supply chain. This webinar will analyse the drivers of innovation and change in two areas. 1) by exploring different ways to adopt cleaner production techniques in SMEs and their supply chains, as well as 2) through ‘on-boarding’ in multi-stakeholder initiatives.
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Event
ILO-CNTAC-PAGE Just Transition in the Textile and Garment Sector in Asia – Discussion series: China
The COVID-19 pandemic is causing immense humanitarian and economic consequences for businesses and workers of the textile and garment sector. The on-going crisis provides an opportunity for the industry to rethink the weaknesses of the current supply chain model, and to step up efforts to restructure the sector in a way that gives greater value to the interdependence between social, environmental, technological and economic conditions.