Majority apparel-producing areas in Asia will be underwater by 2030
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Last Updated: Jul 20, 2021, 08:47 AM IST
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The study warns that the problem of rising sea levels is receiving little attention in the sector.
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Large swathes of apparel-producing areas in Asia will be underwater by 2030, an analysis released on Friday which overlaid maps of rising sea levels onto factory locations showed, threatening thousands of suppliers with submersion unless they relocate to higher ground. The analysis, produced by two Cornell researchers as part of a paper commissioned by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), warns that the problem of rising sea levels is receiving little attention from those leading sustainability efforts in the sector.
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Large swathes of apparel-producing areas in Asia will be underwater by 2030, an analysis released on Friday (July 16) showed, threatening thousands of suppliers with submersion unless they relocate to higher ground.
The analysis, which overlaid maps of rising sea levels onto factory locations, warns that the problem of rising sea levels is receiving little attention from those leading sustainability efforts in the sector. The analysis was produced by two Cornell researchers as part of a paper commissioned by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
“Rapid increases in sea level rise and heat that will affect many of Asia’s apparel workers directly have received little attention,” authors Jason Judd and J. Lowell Jackson of Cornell research centre the New Conversations Project wrote.
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New Conversations Project releases social dialogue report
The ILR School’s New Conversations Project has produced the Social Dialogue in the 21st Century Project, a series of 10 papers that provides a root-cause analysis of barriers to impactful negotiations between various actors in the supply chain of the project’s 10 target countries: Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, India, Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Mexico, Honduras and Vietnam.
The project with the Strategic Partnership for Garment Supply Chain Transformation – a Dutch-government-funded collaboration – resulted in a Synthesis Report summarizing the findings of a year-long mapping exercise across the 10 countries, as well as country-specific reports.
“The goal was to figure out in social dialogue in apparel now, who’s in, who’s out, who’s missing and what’s going on inside,” said Jason Judd, director of the New Conversations Project and a co-author of the Synthesis Report with Lowell Jackson an