The European Outdoor Group’s Sustainability Working Group (SWG) is
holding a Sustainability Breakfast Open Meeting at ispo. The breakfast
will give an overview of the SWG workplan and US driven
Eco Index, a look at the resources available through the website, as
well as provide two major industry speakers.
The meeting continues on the breakfast workshop series, which started at OutDoor last summer.
Speakers will cover carbon footprinting, organic fibres, materials and
business resources. The Workshop will take place from 8.00am on the
Monday morning of ispo, the 8th February, in Room Turmblick in
Restaurant Am Turm. The Workshop will offer an opportunity for the
industry to get involved, hear the latest developments, and the SWG are
also inviting key industry professionals along to ensure that the event
is of benefit to all in the industry.
Dr Klaus Radunsky, co-convenor ISO 14067, and head of Unit of the
Emission Trading Registry Department of the Umweltbundesamt GmbH
(Federal Environment Agency) in Austria, will provide the latest update
on ISO 14067 in his presentation entitled ‘ISO 14067 ‘Carbon Footprint
of Products’ From Vision to Reality”.
Andy Salm, program director Organic Exchange Europe will give an
overview of the work undertaken by the Organic Exchange and highlight
some of the newer areas of work as they broaden their scope into all
sustainable fibres and textiles. In his presentation ‘The
Sustainability Imperative New Challenges in building textile Value
Chains,’ Salm will discuss how brands and retailers are now
scrutinising their entire textile supply chains from both a social and
environmental point of view and how this scrutiny is moving right back
to fibre production, whether it is natural or man made. This implies
developing a greater knowledge of the supply chains and converting them
to value chains, where there are sustainable benefits for all involved.
The SWG will give an update on the work currently being undertaken by
both themselves and the US Eco Working Group and will provide the
audience with a new business resource that will allow them to find new
sustainable information easily.
