Programme Accelerating Collective Action for Circular Materials

Accelerating Collective Action for Circular Materials

Co-Hosted By Mango

Across the global fashion sector, accelerated collective action is needed to drive paradigm-shifting change (especially on topics like circular material adoption). Incredible leadership is being demonstrating by some industry actors: this closed-door, executive-level roundtable meeting will discuss how best-practice principles from exemplary value chain-collaborations can be adopted across the wider landscape to expedite impact.

Programme Accelerating Collective Action for Circular Materials

Accelerating Collective Action for Circular Materials

Co-Hosted by Mango

Programme The GFA Assembly: EU Mandate Policy Alliances

The GFA Assembly: EU Mandate Policy Alliances

An increasing number of organisations working on textiles-related policies are emerging. While this is a positive signal for change, the multiplie approaches risk a confused scattering of key messages towards the newly elected. This closed-door, executive-level roundtable meeting will convene all engaged organisations to provide a knowledge-sharing platform, from which Global Fashion Agenda can identify commonalities and cross-collaboration areas.

Programme Paving the way for a separate collection of textiles in 2025

Paving the way for a separate collection of textiles in 2025

Co-Hosted by The Policy Hub

As the 2025 mandate for separate textile waste collection approaches, the EU faces significant challenges: a lack of finalized legal framework to guide Member States’ efforts, and evident fragmentation in Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes. This roundtable will explore the ongoing status and negotiations around the Waste Framework Directive, addressing these critical issues. By delving into the legislative landscape, the session aims to guide the harmonization of EPR schemes, ensuring a cohesive approach that supports the EU’s environmental goals and the effective establishment of a market for secondary raw materials.

Programme Global Textiles Policy Forum

Global Textiles Policy Forum

The Global Textiles Policy Forum seeks to address the need for global policy coordination by providing a platform for governments and textile industry associations from around the world. This closed-door, executive-level roundtable meeting will gather the forum participants one year after its the launch, following the first meetings of the different workstreams.

Programme Enabling Efficieny and Sustainability Through Traceability

Enabling Efficieny and Sustainability Through Traceability

Case Study

Credibility in collaboration: how do traceability standards aid brands in meeting their sustainability commitments?
Enhanced capacity in raw material tracing: reliability, usability, and interoperability of data across a product’s lifecycle through the use of global standards
Driving the digital transformation of standardised supply chain data through the digital product passport

Next Level Barrier: Fragmented value chain systems often prevent fashion’s ability to identify, capture and share information smoothly
Solution Unlock: Implementation of unified standards, creating a common language to underpin traceability processes for global accountability

✷ Includes sponsor content

Programme Tackling Transparency: From Farms to Fabric

Tackling Transparency: From Farms to Fabric

Case Study

Scaling an end-to-end protocol: learnings so far from an industry-shifting cotton fiber transparency programme
Action on field-level data: unlocking holistic impact from farms to fabric through grower-centric supply chain reporting
Meeting a new burden of proof: how is policy driving brands and retailers towards cultivating deeper traceability strategies on cotton?

Next Level Barrier: Verified datasets for sustainable fibers are required to achieve transparency demands across all supply chain levels
Solution Unlock: Drive quantifiable and verifiable goals and measurement to the key sustainability metrics of U.S. cotton production

✷ Includes sponsor content

Programme Beyond Responsibility: What about Reduction?

Beyond Responsibility: What about Reduction?

Case Study

Programme Tipping the Scale on Circular Material Adoption

Tipping the Scale on Circular Material Adoption

Panel Discussion

A marginal difference? From commitment to action on recycled material offtake across the value chain
Innovation towards stronger purchasing commitment mechanisms: driving the required pricing and performance benefits of circular textiles
Circular or recycled? Systems shifts to share rewards of reintroduced waste streams

Next Level Barrier: Fluctuating demand for recycled fibres is slowing the sustainable material transition and can discourage investment in material innovation
Solution Unlock: Collective action and offtake commitments to reach economies of scale

✷ Includes grantor content + partner content

Programme The Preferred Fibre Face-Off

The Preferred Fibre Face-Off

Round The Room

Over the next decade, fashion must push on scaling million of tons of next-gen materials to overcome a pluriverse of materials-based challenges
Given the timelines, how can fashion collectively progress beyond comparisons of the merits between fibres?
Less trade-off, more transition: from change management to de-risking mechanisms, what specific investments are needed from fashion now and what are the most recent learnings from the recycled fibre landscape?
What are the most recent learnings from current developments the recycled fibre landscape?

Next Level Barrier: Industry-wide debates on preferred fibre categories (eg Cotton Vs Polyester) are slowing down action on materials-based challenges (eg water, chemical and microfibre release).
Solution Unlock: Fathom future scenarios to valorise todays material mix and nurture advanced innovations that phase-out of fossil-fuel derived, virgin materials.