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Welcoming Global Organic Textile Standard

About

Pursuant to each organization’s mandate and capacities, both organizations acknowledge the important role of technology in promoting sustainable and inclusive trade and development. Through their collaboration, both organizations aim to support brands, manufacturers, and factories in their efforts to improve the transparency and traceability of their sustainability efforts while at the same time supporting factories in adopting sustainable business practices.

Technology applied for good, can contribute to achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, as established in the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Collaboration

The International Trade Centre displays the list of GOTS certified businesses to enable them to gain visibility towards potential buyers looking for sustainable products.

Benefits

Partnership Objective

The objective of this partnership is to enable businesses to easily verify the validity of their certifications and sustainability claims, whilst at the same time, also work with other leading standard setting organizations, to identify the overlap in certification among businesses operating in a given country or sector.

Launched

November 2019

Size of network:

Close to 10’000 companies certified to GOTS

Geographic & product scope:

Over 120 countries and territories

Last update of data displayed in the network:

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