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Hot Air: How will fashion adapt to accelerating climate change?

How have weather conditions already changed in major apparel production centers? In this follow-up to our Higher Ground? reports, we looked at the past twenty years of weather data in our 23 focus cities to try and find that out, as well as ask how workers, brands and retailers, manufacturers and their governments should react and adapt to our warming future in a world of corporate due diligence. Read our findings here.

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Measuring Supply Chain Due Diligence

Labor Outcomes Metrics

Read about the Global Labor Institute's new quantitative metrics that measure labor outcomes—actual impacts for workers.

Workers in Bangladesh
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“Repeat, Regain or Renegotiate?” NCP Working Paper No. 2 asks What's the future of apparel?

“Repeat, Regain or Renegotiate?” NCP Working Paper No. 2 asks What's the future of apparel?
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“Repeat, Regain or Renegotiate?” NCP Working Paper No. 2 asks What's the future of apparel?

Higher Ground + Trade Realities

OECD Garment Forum Side Session with Katalyst Initiative (Amsterdam), Cornell GLI (New York) and Home Based Women Workers Federation (Karachi)
Land and Sea - OECD
Higher Ground + Trade Realities

OECD Due Diligence Session -- Sarosh Kuruvilla

GLI’s Sarosh Kuruvilla is sharing our new framework for hard measures of labor outcomes as part of the main OECD session “Assessing RBC due diligence implementation: Reflecting a risk-based approach".
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OECD Due Diligence Session -- Sarosh Kuruvilla

Learning from Crisis: Apparel Industry Expert on Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Crises

View our live Debate: “Learning from Crisis: Apparel Industry Expert on Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Crises"
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Learning from Crisis: Apparel Industry Expert on Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Crises

"Learning from Crisis: Apparel Industry Expert on Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Crises" Live Debate

Join us on Wednesday, February 8th at 9:00 a.m. for a live debate on the Cornell Global Labor Institute’s third and last paper on COVID-19 supported by the ILO: “Learning from Crisis: Apparel Industry Experts on Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Crises.”
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"Learning from Crisis: Apparel Industry Expert on Mitigating the COVID-19 Pandemic and Future Crises" Live Debate

Who Do Audits Really Serve? Labor and Denim Experts Have Lots to Say – Sourcing Journal

Sourcing Journal
“The [audit] system is not a system,” said Jason Judd, executive director of the ILR Global Labor Institute. “It’s a confusion of programs. It is program-rich and system-poor.”
Jason Judd
Who Do Audits Really Serve? Labor and Denim Experts Have Lots to Say – Sourcing Journal

To Eliminate Gender Based Violence and Harassment

Dindigul Agreement

This is GLI’s year two assessment of the processes and outcomes of an innovative agreement regarding freedom of association and the elimination of gender based violence at a South Indian apparel factory that could be a model for other factories around the world.

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Higher Ground? Fashion’s Climate Breakdown

Impacts of climate change on global apparel production

In partnership with Schroders, we report the impacts of climate change on global apparel production. In our first report, we track climate change impacts at the global, national, and factory levels. We map fashion's climate vulnerabilities across production centers, and estimate future economic damages from extreme heat and flooding. Our second report examines company-level climate risk, cost, and financing for adaption and just resilience.

Textile workers in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Change or Groundhog Day? What new research tells us about what works in global labor governance

2024 GLI Conference Highlights

Samira Rafaela
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