COLORADO SPRINGS – The 20th annual conference of the Textile Exchange industry organisation has opened with impassioned speeches for greater collaboration in the battle to reduce the sector’s impact on climate change.
Nearly 900 people – and another 700 virtually – representing 560 companies and organisations are attending the event at the Broadmoor Event Centre in the US city of Colorado Springs.
In her opening speech to the conference, Textile Exchange CEO La Rhea Pepper told delegates how she considered the key roles of the organisation as being to “inspire and equip” the industry to reduce its impacts.
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