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

Impacts of Climate Change on Global Apparel Production

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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CBS News: 'Forget tariffs — this U.S. shoe company vows not to hike its prices'

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Jason Judd, describing the impacts of tariffs on consumers: "That pain will lessen as terms and sourcing patterns change, but the longer-term costs per family will still be around a $425 increase per year."
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CBS News: 'Forget tariffs — this U.S. shoe company vows not to hike its prices'

How Trump’s tariffs could affect Nike and its factory workers

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Jason Judd, executive director of the Global Labor Institute, discusses the impact of tariffs on Nike's workers.
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How Trump’s tariffs could affect Nike and its factory workers

Nike says its factory workers earn nearly double the minimum wage. At this Cambodian factory, 1% made that much.

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“Companies have enormous leeway in what they report. It’s enormously difficult to compare within firms across years. Between firms, impossible. Companies are able to pick and choose how they tell their story,” says Jason Judd, executive director of the Global Labor Institute.
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Nike says its factory workers earn nearly double the minimum wage. At this Cambodian factory, 1% made that much.

GLI and Human Rights Watch Q&A: European Union Forced Labor Regulation

The EU’s new Forced Labor Regulation will require companies to identify and eliminate forced labor in their operations and supply chains, Human Rights Watch and GLI say in a question-and-answer document about the new law.
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GLI and Human Rights Watch Q&A: European Union Forced Labor Regulation

ESG News: 'Schroders and Cornell Launch Framework to Drive Climate Risk Resilience in Vulnerable Sectors'

"Extreme weather and physical climate risk represent serious health hazards for garment workers which result in material risks for brands," says Jason Judd, in this breakdown of our climate risk framework done with Schroders
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ESG News: 'Schroders and Cornell Launch Framework to Drive Climate Risk Resilience in Vulnerable Sectors'

Pensions Age: 'Schroders and Cornell University publish framework on climate risk'

Executive Director Jason Judd, talking about the need for this framework on climate risk: "Adaptation investments that protect workers and supply chains are urgently needed and must go hand-in-hand with social protection mechanisms."
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Pensions Age: 'Schroders and Cornell University publish framework on climate risk'

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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