BERLIN – The notion of a single, unified label for textiles covering environmental and social standards has shifted up the political agenda in Germany after H&M’s CEO Karl-Johan Persson said he envisioned “a global generic label for the [textile] industry … similar to the fair-trade label on coffee.”
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