There is growing concern that lengthy, opaque textile supply chains may be incompatible with a low carbon industry and without radical new ways to address this, or the political and economic will, on-going progress will only inch forward while existing commitments melt away.
The recent conclusion by the World Meteorological Organisation that the rate of atmospheric CO2 has now overtaken the targets of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is concerning – but hardly surprising.
It’s now 125 magazine issues since we first published Ecotextile News in 2007, shortly after the Kyoto Protocol came into force, and even then, we were concerned that lengthy, opaque textile supply chains were incompatible with low carbon emissions.
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