The International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) is devoting 3 of their 2023 issues of the 'Cotton Review of the World Situation' to the topic of Sustainability. March 2023 is online now, in English. French and Spanish translations should follow short…lnkd.in/eZ-iq8Bw

For "Amplifying Misinformation: The Case of Sustainability Indices in Fashion", Dorothee Baumann-Pauly and I included a case Illustration, to show just how misleading it is for The Business of Fashion and everyone else, to evaluate a brand's sustainabilit…lnkd.in/ebpA3MD9

If you care about sustainability in fashion, please watch this: It's Al Gore answering some great questions from Thomas Vilsack. Shout out to Triangle LCA for drawing it to our attention. lnkd.in/edJmGZhu

"At H&M we have almost 200 million people in our loyalty programme" a number that Alan Boehme says translates into being able to get information you can't get anywhere else." In other words dear friends, H&M Group knows exactly how…lnkd.in/ePejQ2Ww lnkd.in/e3qgar3Q

I don't know if it made the final cut because I don't have access, and I don't speak Italian in any case. But for the linked Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana program, I was asked the following question in February: What is the false trail of sustainabilit…lnkd.in/efUzSA-B

As H&M Group's Helena Helmersson replaces Kering's Pinault as co-chair of the Fashion Pact - and Hermès and Selfridges exit stage left... many folks on Linkedin have been questioning how H&M are going to attain their climate targe…lnkd.in/eru-2XAb lnkd.in/eZuYyxJS

UPCOMING EVENT Are you filling out your schedule for next week? Nothing much to do on Monday evening, between 6 and 8pm, UK? Then why not head online - or down to Lincoln's Inn Fields, if you happen to be in London - for what wil…lnkd.in/dh5Htc2k lnkd.in/eGssFQ9e

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In case you missed them the first time, the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC)  Cotton Review of the World Situation Vol. 76 (linked below) includes - The Great Green Washing Machine Part 2: The Use and Misuse of Sustainability Metrics in Fash…lnkd.in/eQ9xKi29

The regulations that the European Commission/European Environment Agency are proposing to end fast fashion and make fashion circular - some of which Environment Committee MEPs adopted in April - will not work.  Indeed, without supplementary legislation,…lnkd.in/eRsi-qeY

Should the UK Competition and Markets Authority, the Norwegian Forbrukertilsynet, and the many other consumer authorities, instruct fashion and apparel brands to desist advertising their cotton as 'organic' to consumers, until the data chasm in organic co…lnkd.in/ednyE6iT

The European Parliament has backed a raft of legislation designed to “end fast fashion” – but will it actually work? vogue.co.uk/article/end-of…

The latest edition of 'COTTON: Review of the World Situation' is now available. This free publication is the third in a three-part series focussing on the work of Veronica Veronica Bates Kassatly, an independent analyst and consultant for data-based sustainability claims.

The first global temperature data is in for the full month of September. This month was, in my professional opinion as a climate scientist – absolutely gobsmackingly bananas. JRA-55 beat the prior monthly record by over 0.5C, and was around 1.8C warmer than preindutrial levels.

#VeniceSFF The textile goods produced are produced for our sake, so we are all responsible for those GHG emissions. People care more for the things they paid more: as long as it is cheaper to buy new clothes than to upcycle and repair them, the clothes produced in a sustainable

Dear The Washington Post, I've emailed your Corrections department 4 times since March 10. I received this response twice "Your message has been forwarded to the Climate and Environment desk for investigation." That's it, and the claim remains. washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti… Can you help?

Backtracking on #greenwashing in the EU! Basing #sustainability claims on self-assessments is too weak! Do companies have people with skills to "assess for themselves whether the claims they make are scientifically credible" ? ft.com/content/768bb5… Veronica Bates Kassatly Livia Firth, MBE

There’s a global grab on for food and water, says investigative journalist Nate Halverson. He tells hari sreenivasan how governments around the world are seizing these resources at the expense of entire populations. Nathan Halverson GabrielaCowperthwait #TheGrab

Good to see our #BizHumanRights research UNIGE_en discussed in popular outlets in #Switzerland - Myret Zaki Veronica Bates Kassatly blick.ch/fr/news/econom…