Fashion brands’ sustainability reports ‘lack balance’

OTTAWA - Major apparel brands have consistently emphasised environmental progress over labour conditions in their sustainability reports in the decade following the Rana Plaza disaster, according to a new peer-reviewed study.

Published in the Business Strategy and the Environment journal, the research, by Mahsa Mohammadrezaei and José Carlos Marques of the University of Ottawa in Canada, analysed 322 sustainability reports from 69 apparel companies from 2014 to 2021.