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EVENT

19 June 2024

Vision & Visibility: Scaling transparency
3 years after the Sustainability Pledge Launch for Sustainable and Circular Garment and Footwear

Triennale di Milano, Italy

4 June 2024

UNECE-ITC Workshop
Advancing Traceability and Transparency in the Beef Industry: How traceability tools enable industry actors to authenticate sustainability claims

Geneva, Switzerland

17 April 2024

InfoPoint conference
Transparency and traceability in garment and footwear value chains – Part 2

InfoPoint Brussels, Belgium

19 February 2024

OECD Forum
Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector Side Session - Fixing a Leaky System: Creating Resource Management Systems for Used Textiles

13 February 2023

2023 OECD Due Diligence Forum in the Garment and Footwear Sector
From farm to shelf: Why upstream and downstream actors need to work in tandem to achieve social and environmental justice in fashion value chains

Virtual meeting, Paris, France

8-12 November 2022

COP27
Contribution of "The Sustainability Pledge": How the textile and clothing industry could do its bit in the fight against climate change

Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt

22 June 2022

Brussels Expo 2022
Tracing textiles: Advanced technologies for sustainable value chains - Unleashing the potential of blockchain for traceability, transparency and circularity in garment & footwear

Brussels Expo, Brussels, Belgium

24-25 May 2022

UNECE-UNIDO International Conference
Accelerating action for the sustainable garment and footwear industry - Harnessing the potential of innovation for due diligence and reduced environmental impact the way forward to UNFCCC COP27, Cairo, Egypt

Cairo, Egypt

7 April 2022

2nd UNECE-FAO RLC Latin America Regional Workshop
Accelerating action for the sustainable and circular garment and footwear industry, innovation for inclusive cotton value chains

Santiago, Chile

25 March 2022

Joint Event: International Conference of Confederation of Employers of Uzbekistan and UNECE Programme "The sustainable garment and footwear industry of the future."
Advancing the transition to sustainable and circular business model

Tashkent, Uzbekistan

11 March 2022

Textile Transparency Toolbox - UNECE x Manchester Fashion Institute
Accelerating action for the sustainable and circular garment and footwear industry of the future – harnessing the potential of innovation for due diligence and informed consumer choices adding a digitally enabled, textile transparency model to the UK textiles 2030 and wrap policy initiatives, connecting to EU and global models

Physical and virtual, Manchester, UK

6 Dec 2021

UNECE-FAO Latin America Training Workshop
Accelerating Action for the Sustainable and Circular Garment and Footwear Industry - Innovation for Inclusive Cotton Value Chains

Physical and virtual, Santiago - Chile | Geneva - Switzerland

21 - 23 SEPTEMBER 2021

UNECE-SDA BOCCONI Regional Workshop
Accelerating action on sustainability and circularity in the garment and footwear sector with innovations that deliver on due diligence and informed consumer choice

21 September (9:30) - 23 September (17:30) 2021
Physical and virtual, Milan, Italy

12 JULY 2021

Making the circular transition work for a transformative and prosperous post-COVID recovery
Side event during the High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

12 July 2021 13:30 - 15:00
Virtual meeting, Geneva, Switzerland

28 APRIL 2021

Traceability for Sustainable Garment and Footwear (agri-domain)
36th UN/CEFACT Forum

26 April - 07 May 2021
Virtual WebEx meeting, Geneva, Switzerland

19-20 APRIL 2021

27th Session - UN/CEFACT Plenary

Held virtually and physically in Salle TPS 2, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

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NEWS

26 Apr 2024

World Circular Economy Forum 2024
UNECE presents circular solutions for the future world of sustainable industries at World Circular Economy Forum 2024

11 Mar 2024

2024 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector
UNECE and UNECLAC call for sustainability on second-hand clothing trade flows

19 May 2023

United Nations will launch a study on global second-hand clothing trade and disposal in Chile

2 Mar 2023

Innovation, Transparency and Traceability: A Must in the Clothing Industry

29 Nov 2022

COP27: How the textile and clothing industry could do its bit in the fight against climate change

21 Oct 2022

Team of Specialists on Environmental, Social and Governance traceability in the UNECE region aims to help industries move from strategy to action

29 Jun 2022

On the way to COP27, UNECE-UNIDO conference in Egypt paves the way to tackle climate change in textile and leather sectors

23 May 2022

We need more traceability and transparency to make better choices in the fashion industry, urges activist Lily Cole together with UNECE and FAO in Latin America

5 May 2022

UNECE supports Uzbekistan’s strategy towards sustainable practices in the garment and footwear industry through its “Sustainability Pledge”

27 Apr 2022

UNECE and ITC jointly acknowledge new corporate accountability proposal by the European Union to foster transparent and responsible behavior in supply chains

23 Feb 2022

UNECE and partners call for concrete action for a sustainable garment sector at EU-Africa Business Forum 2022

31 Oct 2021 – 12 Nov 2021

UN Climate Change Conference (COP26)
Supply chain transparency could help the clothing industry significantly reduce its GHG emissions

24 September 2021

UN brings together industry actors for action on sustainability in the garment and footwear sector

21 September 2021

The Sustainability Pledge is gathering momentum with commitments from across the garment and footwear industry, government, campaign groups and academia