Katalyst’s new paper provides answers to longstanding questions about the size, location and distribution of the world’s garment workforce, providing a critical foundation for Just Transition planning.

In this new paper, published in Environmental Science: Advances, co-authored with University of Amsterdam’s Responsible Business Lab’s Luc Fransen, and building on KI’s Trade Realities paper, we explore how trade flows and the design of new value chain governanance laws may impace policy design.

A companion to Sizing up the Garment Industry, this describes how power relations in the garment industry need to be considered in creating regulations for both human rights and environmental issues.

How many garment brands would need to change their behaviour in order to reach a ‘critical mass’ leading to widespread improvement in respect for human rights and the environment? And how should governance and regulatory efforts be designed to help

Katalyst was invited to share some thoughts on due diligence and risk monitoring by the editors of Board Agenda.

A new publication from KI’s Martin Curley on the EUIdeas Blog at the European University Institute argues that creating a central role for labour and civil society in deciding what ‘good’ due diligence looks like is critical as efforts to make human rights due diligence mandatory gather speed.