Fair Wear, Green Button team to scale responsible business in fashion

Tue, Sep 16, 2025, 6:04 AM 2 min read

Fair Wear and Green Button have signed a Joint Declaration of Intent to scale impactful Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) by aligning approaches and leveraging their combined expertise.

Together, the initiatives hope to help more companies turn commitments into action that benefits workers, the environment and resilient supply chains.

Fair Wear's Annabel Meurs says: “Our collaboration is about making due diligence practical and accessible to more brands. By aligning with the Green Button, we give companies clearer pathways to embed responsible practices into their operations—strengthening resilience, reducing risks, and driving improvements for workers across supply chains."

Green Button's Christine Moser-Priewich adds: “The textile sector is facing a decisive moment with mandatory yet still evolving due diligence laws coming into force. Companies need reliable and practical guidance now. Through this partnership, brands will benefit from clearer expectations, shared resources and efficient support to implement HREDD more effectively."

Green Button and Fair Wear plan to work together in three key areas:

• Harmonisation of standards: reducing complexity for businesses by further aligning both organisations’ OECD-based requirements while ensuring ambition and impact

• Joint tools and aligned brand guidance: co-creating and sharing best practices and proven methods to facilitate step–by–step implementation of HREDD

• Credible and transparent accountability: strengthening ways to assess, verifyand communicate to stakeholders and consumers how corporate due diligence leads to real improvements.

The partnership already started with concrete benefits, including: Green Button companies now gain access to Fair Wear’s grievance mechanism and its due diligence Academy. At the same time, the two organisations are collaborating on the Green Button’s standard revision process and advancing approaches on environmental due diligence topics benefiting Fair Wear members.

The Responsible Purchasing Practices (RPP) Working Group's members, which include Fair Wear and Solidaridad, have also unveiled a practical human rights due diligence tool to help fashion brands buy responsibly.

It focuses on high-risk areas such as production planning, payment and contract terms, and costing — providing accountability bodies with a common basis to assess brands’ practices. The RPP Working Group says if it is widely adopted, it can help deliver more predictable production, secure wages and healthier working conditions.