UNEA-6 Officiel Side Event – Connecting the Threads: A coordinated policy response to transform the textile value chain and offer solutions which preserve nature

The textile value chain is complex and highly international – impacts of practices and policies enacted in one region reverberate across the global value chain. There are currently no identified, open access, global structures to support coordination between policymakers and provide opportunities to share and scale textile policy work across countries and regions. There is a need for a policy dialogue and coordination mechanism to give cohesion and support the upscaling of current policy efforts to minimize negative impacts on nature, people and economies of the textile value chain.  Such dialogue will also inform and support the work conducted under the auspices of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Kunming Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and the recently adopted Global Framework on Chemicals.

The event aims at launching an inclusive and sustainable Global Policy Dialogue on Textiles.