Fashion’s Great Disconnect: Location of Sales, Profits & Capital vs. Location of Environmental Impacts

See No Evil The Planet Tracker report argued that frequent outsourcing of manufacturing leads to poor supply chain visibility and limited direct control of most of the negative environmental impacts of the industry by retail companies and investors. Jingxi Lau / Unsplash

By Subir Ghosh

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28 June 2023

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28 June 2023

A Planet Tracker analysis—Following the Thread—recently underlined the significant disconnect between the location of the majority of the sales, profits and capital in the textiles industry and the location of the most significant negative environmental impacts. Richard Wielechowski, Senior Investment Analyst (Textiles) at Planet Tracker, tells texfash.com what this disconnect means.

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