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Change or Groundhog Day? What new research tells us about what works in global labor governance

2024 GLI Conference Highlights

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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.

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

Everybody wants strong social protection systems. Who pays for them?

A new paper by Cornell University’s Global Labor Institute concludes that while the industry agrees more social protection is a must, nobody wants to pay for it, say Jason Judd and Matthew M Fisher Daly, co-authors of the report.
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Everybody wants strong social protection systems. Who pays for them?

Op-Ed Fashion’s Business Model Isn’t Fit for Climate Change

This op-ed by Jason Judd and Sarosh Kuruvilla explores how the business model of fashion is failing to meet the complex problems posed by climate change.
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Op-Ed Fashion’s Business Model Isn’t Fit for Climate Change

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