GUIDELINES FOR GREENING THE TEXTILE SECTOR IN VIET NAM

Led by WWF Vietnam with cooperation from the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS), and with financial support from HSBC, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and Tommy Hilfiger, the Greening Textile Sector Project was launched in 2018 to transform the textile sector in Vietnam and engage sectoral and environmental governance to bring social, economic and conservation benefits to the country and the entire Mekong region. The project focuses on improving water and energy management with the long-term goal of enhancing Mekong River’s governance and improving the sustainability of Mekong River ecosystems and habitats. The project also supports climate change mitigation through increasing energy efficiency and the use of sustainable energy. This handbook on guidelines for greening the sector is one of the project’s main deliverables and serves as a resource document for stakeholders interested in working towards a sustainable pathway to secure long-term sector growth.

(Photo source: From the Guidelines for Greening the textile sector in Viet Nam – WWF Vietnam)

The Guidelines for Greening the Textile Sector in Viet Nam – WWF-Viet Nam mainly focuses on the following details:

1. Why Vietnam needs a green textile and garment sector?

2. Best Available Technologies and Best Environmental Practices

Especially, the handbook also states some practical and essential sharing from:

• Experiences from Global brands in the execution, as H&M, GAP, Levi Strauss & Co., UNIQLO.
• What other countries are doing.

At country level, a number of management practices and policies have been applied and enforced by top five textile exporter countries, such as Bangladesh, China, European Commission, India,

3. Global Textile Sustainability Trends and Platforms

• Global Recycled Standard – GRS
• Better Cotton Initiatives – BCI
• Cradle-to-Cradle – C2C: the philosophy is to redesign and reshape the traditional product design and manufacturing system into a closed system in which all materials go through a continuous cycle of use and re-use.

In addition, the guidelines also introduce numerous MECHANISMS and TOOLS to help manufacturing companies improve their continuously “GO GREENER”. For example:

• The ZERO DISCHARGE OF HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS (ZDHC)
• The Higg Index
• The Bluesign APPROVED
• The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS)
• The ISO 14001
• Etc.

4. Sector Outlooks and Guidelines for Green Transformation

Please access to the following links for your reference on “GUIDELINES FOR GREENING THE TEXTILE SECTOR IN VIET NAM.

Download the English version here:

Download the Vietnamese version here:

Source: WWF-Viet Nam

Source links: 

https://vietnam.panda.org/our_news_vn/publications_vn/?uNewsID=366521 

https://vietnam.panda.org/en/our_news/publications/?uNewsID=366522

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