EU Strategy on Sustainable and Circular Textiles - opinion - 08.12.22

The Strategy proposes actions for the entire lifecycle of textiles products, while supporting the ecosystem in the green and digital transitions. It addresses the way textiles are designed and consumed, including by looking also at sustainable technological solutions and innovative business models.

Since women account for approximately 80 % of the global garment workforce and comprise the majority of low-wage workers, the draft opinion stresses the detrimental social impacts and the additional gender‐specific factors and barriers that consistently render women and girls more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and disasters; calling, among others things, for the inclusion of social and labour standards in both the proposed eco-design regulation and under labelling requirements.