Weekly podcast: The big climate challenges for apparel and textiles

<p>This week: Textile Exchange’s Claire Bergkamp and Beth Jenson talk about their new Climate+ strategy, some of the innovations in the textiles and apparel sector that will help companies plot a route to net zero, and their willingness to make the changes necessary.</p> <p>And, Innovation Forum’s Hanna Halmari gives an update on the responsible sourcing and ethical trade, coming up on 4th and 5th April.</p> <p>Plus: UN Environment Programme calls for 50% increase up to $285bn investment in nature protection and restoration from G20 countries; Nestlé announces new programme to tackle child labour in cocoa supply chains; new modelling research shows likely impacts of climate change on shifting commodity growing areas; and, how advances in battery and other storage technologies may mean India can cancel new coal power generation and switch to renewables, in the news digest.</p> <p>Host: Ian Welsh</p> <p>To access the new Textile Exchange report on regenerative agriculture <a href='https://textileexchange.org/regenerative-agriculture-landscape-analysis/'>click here</a>.</p>