Apparel Brands Turned Disclosure into a Performance of Responsibility After Rana Plaza
The global apparel industry's sustainability reporting expanded substantially in the years following the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster. A new study examining 322 reports from 69 companies over seven years jhas found that the expansion was real and the accountability was not. Environmental content consistently outranked labour conditions, and the sector's reporting tone became progressively more optimistic regardless of what was happening in the supply chains those reports described.