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Textiles and apparel sustainability update April 2021

DGAP-News: Golding Capital Partners GmbH / Key word(s): Funds/Personnel Golding Capital Partners GmbH: Golding hires impact investing team 05.05.2021 / 10:22 PRESS RELEASE Golding hires impact investing team Munich, 5. May 2021 - Golding Capital Partners is expanding into impact investing and has hired an experienced team of impact investors. Andreas Nilsson and Nina Freudenberg joined the Golding investment team in March as Head of Impact and Director respectively. The duo previously founded Sonanz in 2015 as a boutique fund manager for impact investments in private equity. Golding intends ...

Piloting the collective impact model in Bangladesh Format April 26, 2021— The non-profit organization H&M Foundation (H&MF), with the support of The Asia Foundation, is launching a collaborative pilot project to provide emergency assistance to female garment workers in the wake of the global pandemic. Designed to safeguard female textile workers against the immediate impacts of Covid-19 as well as in the long term, the pilot is part of H&MF’s longer-term project, Collective Impact Initiative for Female Textile Workers in Bangladesh (CIFTWB), located in one of the world’s leading garment...

Posted on April 21, 2021 UNDP and HEART 17 launch platform to unite youth, artists and business to drive action on sustainable development Illustration: HEART 17   New York - A new global initiative called HEART 17, launched today in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to bring together young people and the creative and private sectors to fight poverty, inequality and climate change. HEART 17 will focus on building connections between youth, artists, creators, business leaders and changemakers to amplify voices and drive action to achieve the Sustainable Develop...

April 15, 2021 The increasing availability of alternative plant-based fibers offers sustainable options for textile products. By Dr. Andre West, Technical Editor Sustainability can be defined as how natural systems function, remain diverse and produce everything necessary for them to remain in balance with nature. In textile science, natural plant fibers are sustainable raw materials. For humankind to exist sustainably means maintaining productivity in agriculture and ecology despite obstacles. The world’s ecosystems are under stress from the abundance of plastic production and the disposal...