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Six Seasons, Four Summers: How to Solve Fashion's High Heat Problem

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Cooling investments in Bangladesh’s apparel factories can be commercially viable, with an average payback period of one to four years, according to new research from Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute.

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The Dindigul Agreement to End Gender-based Violence and Harassment

Has It Worked?

This is GLI’s official final assessment of the Dindigul Agreement to End Gender-Based Violence and Harassment at a South Indian apparel factory that could be a model for other factories around the world. 

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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.

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Cooling Before It Got Cool: Case Studies in Heat Adaptation in Southeast Asian Factories

Heat Adaptation in Apparel Factories

A new examination of how apparel factories are adapting to extreme heat while investing in cooling, automation, and climate resilience strategies.

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Global Labor Institute's Climate-Labor Work

GLI Climate-Labor Research

See all of our analyses on the intersection of labor rights and climate change.

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Latest Research and Events

Katalyst Initiative: Human Rights Due Diligence, Making it Mandatory

New Conversations Project expert publishes article for the European University Institute on the movement to implement mandatory human rights due diligence laws
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Katalyst Initiative: Human Rights Due Diligence, Making it Mandatory

Special Issue on Labor Regulation in Global Supply Chains in the ILR Review August 2020 issue

ILR Review, August 2020, is a special Issue on Labor Relations in Global Supply Chains
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Special Issue on Labor Regulation in Global Supply Chains in the ILR Review August 2020 issue

Jason Judd on Fair Fashion Think Tank's Podcast on COVID-19 and the Apparel Industry

NCP Executive Director Jason Judd participates in COVID-19 podcast with the Fair Fashion Think Tank
Fair Fashion Think Tank
Jason Judd on Fair Fashion Think Tank's Podcast on COVID-19 and the Apparel Industry

The Conversation: 'Why apparel brands' efforts to police their supply chains aren't working'

In The Conversation, NCP Executive Director Jason Judd and Academic Director Sarosh Kuruvilla share new research on private regulation in the global apparel trade and the COVID-19 crisis.
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The Conversation: 'Why apparel brands' efforts to police their supply chains aren't working'

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Cooling Bangladesh's garment factories is cheaper than it looks

MSN
The cost of reducing heat stress for workers in Bangladesh garment factories has an average payback period of one to four years says a report from ILR’s Global Labor Institute; the report discusses the need for cooling both factories and workers’ homes. [Syndicated from Sourcing Journal]
Cooling Bangladesh's garment factories is cheaper than it looks

Costs to cool Bangladesh garment factories can be recovered within four years, study shows

Reuters
Investments to provide cooling in Bangladesh garment factories are commercially viable and pay back within four years says a report from ILR’s Global Labor Institute; the report “gives both buyers and suppliers a context for the scale of the intervention required,” explains Jason Judd, executive director of the institute.
Costs to cool Bangladesh garment factories can be recovered within four years, study shows

Bangladesh Sourcing Report Challenges Cheap Hub Narrative

Sustainable Business Magazine
The report “Higher Ground? Report 1: Fashion’s Climate Breakdown and Its Effect for Workers,” which was co-published by ILR’s Global Labor Institute, is referenced in this article about various challenges and solutions for the Bangladesh garment industry.
Bangladesh Sourcing Report Challenges Cheap Hub Narrative

Knitting Industry

A report from the Global Labor Institute, “Higher Ground? Report 1: Fashion’s Climate Breakdown and Its Effect for Workers,” is referenced in this article, which warns that without climate adaptation efforts, Bangladesh’s apparel export earnings could be around 22% lower by 2030 and 68% lower by 2050.
Knitting Industry

Top fashion brands have a supply chain battle against extreme India heat

Economic Times
A report co-created by ILR’s Global Labor Institute, “The Heat is On: How heat stress impacts the apparel industry, jobs, and worker health,” is referenced in this article about problems and solutions related to high temperatures in the garment manufacturing workplace. [Syndicated from Bloomberg]
Top fashion brands have a supply chain battle against extreme India heat

Gap Inc. Expands Human Rights And Gender Equality Efforts

Textile Insights
A report, “The Dindigul Agreement to End Gender-based Violence and Harassment Has It Worked?”, by Sarosh Kuruvilla, ILR professor and academic director of the Global Labor Institute, is referenced in this article.
Gap Inc. Expands Human Rights And Gender Equality Efforts