Europe's Better Cotton begins public consultation on revised P&C

The public sakeholder consultation is a key step in ensuring that the P&C continues to strike the right balance between sustainability ambitions and feasibility of implementation at field level, Better Cotton said.

“We are excited to be opening the revised P&C for public consultation, after many months of collaboration with our technical working groups and other stakeholders. The revised standard supports our 2030 Strategy and focuses on impact, with strengthened expectations around climate change, regenerative agriculture, smallholder livelihoods and decent work. It puts more emphasis on the needs of local farmers and workers and aims to reduce duplicative data and planning requirements,” Chelsea Reinhardt, director of Standards & Assurance, said.

The P&C are one of the key instruments of the Better Cotton Standard System, which works to drive the cotton sector towards a more sustainable, more equitable and climate-friendly future. The P&C set out the requirements for sustainable cotton that apply to more than two million farmers growing Better Cotton around the world.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (RR)