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Several critical environmental action days are approaching, including Sustainability Day in October and Climate Action Day in November; how will you respond?   Environmental action Sustainability Day is an annual event celebrating the notion of sustainability in all of its forms. Sustainability day is celebrated on the fourth Wednesday of October, and is dedicated toRead more

The team of Leadership & Sustainability is proud to announce that our CEO will be a keynote speaker at the ESMA Textile Printing and Sustainability (TPS) Conference in September (8th-9th at Dorint Kongresshotel in Düsseldorf).   TPS & ESMA Background The TPS Conference has brought together a number of industry specialists to share their knowledgeRead more

Leadership & Sustainability is now in the process of creating our very own e-learning website, which will include a variety of courses to meet the needs of your organization. Our highly trained instructors will give the lessons with years of expertise and passion. All of the courses will be authorized by ZDHC and SAC, andRead more

Leadership & Sustainability is a longstanding and proud member as well as a supporter of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC)! We are members at a strategic level and therefore demonstrate industry leadership by driving impact.   The SAC’s vision of a sustainable apparel industry The SAC seeks to lead the apparel industry towards a sharedRead more

World Environmental Day as a starting point for action On Sunday, the 5th of June, World Environment Day will be celebrated. This year the motto is #OnlyOneEarth. The focus of the campaign is on calling for collective, transformative action on a global scale to celebrate, protect and restore our wonderful planet. World Environment Day hasRead more

Feel free to attend our new trainings on Higg FEM, SLCP, and ZDHC. The Leadership & Sustainability team will educate you on the requirements for documents and records you should keep, as well as the practices you should follow to answer the questions and earn the points. It will also address common mistakes and areasRead more

The Higg Brand & Retail Module (Higg BRM) is a tool which provides more than 500 brands and retailers, committed to use it, with a comprehensive way to assess their performance for 16 social and 11 environmental parameters of their global value chain. These include parameters such as human rights, fair wages or greenhouse gas emissions. UsersRead more

The European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA) supports this day with a fundraising campaign.   The Earth Day has been celebrated annually on April 22 since 1970 and is intended to strengthen appreciation for the natural environment, to draw attention to environmental and climate protection, but also to encourage people to rethink their consumer behavior. ThisRead more

Higg FEM Verifications 2021 are coming up! We prepare you for a successful verification with our Higg FEM Verification Webinar Series 2022!   Let’s scale up Sustainability Improvements with a Higg FEM Verification! As you may know, Higg FEM Index assesses the environmental performance of sustainable development with practical and quantitative questions, supporting manufacturers withRead more

What is the connection between sustainability and leadership? Last October, our founder and CEO Karin Ekberg did her wonderful TEDx Talk at TEDx Erasmus University Rotterdam, answered this question and spoke about 5 principles to lead for sustainability. It took a few months, but finally, everyone can listen to and rewatch Karin’s TEDx Talk. ItRead more