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Panel Discussions-Highlights • Iqbal Khurram. CEO. YS Group-Nishat Chunnian.
Panel discussions are one of the prominent and Pakistan
unique features of ICC 2022. These panelists are • Khalid Abdullah. Cotton Commissioner.
finalized owing to their expertise and excellence in Government of Pakistan
their domain so that the discussions could be fruitful • Dr Shafique Ahmed. Regional Director. Better
and inspiring for the audience. This year, ICC 2022 Cotton Initiative
had four-panel discussions with different themes. • Dr Masood Arshad. WWF. Pakistan
• Bilal Israel Khan. Executive Director. FAP.
Panel: Local Cotton Challenges and the Possible (Progressive Farmer)
Solutions • Khawaja Tahir Mahmood. CEO - Country Head. Mazhar Hussain Mirza Je Elder Carlo Bocardo Kamran Arshad (Moderator) Carl Peltzer
Apart from facing the global issues discussed in the Control Union Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd.
first panel, Pakistan is facing even hard challenges Panel: Cotton Quality, Challenges, and Remediation • Carl Peltzer. Director. Cargill Cotton Ltd. Panel: Business Challenges and Solutions for • Stephanie Thier
for the local cotton crop. That is why the Pakistan's cotton production has shrunk by 19% in Ahead 2022 United Kingdom Pakistan Textiles Retailers. CCI,
second-panel discussion focused on Pakistani cotton the current season, mainly due to the devastation The cotton crop year 2021-22 has seen dramatic • Jeff Elder. Director of Marketing. The global textile business suffers from inflation, the • Khalid
and featured all stakeholders, from farmers to textile caused by heavy rainfall and flash floods nationwide. crop damage globally due to climate change, Allbright Cotton, USA energy crisis, and consumer choices after COVID-19. • Anees M Kh
manufacturers. For this panel discussion followings The profitability of other crops has also forced cotton droughts, and floods. For this panel discussion, the • Carlo Bocardo. Vice President of Sales. For this panel discussion the following were the
were the group participants: growers to shift to them. following were the group participants: Calcot Ltd, USA group participants: Companies, Paki
• Kamran Arshad. Director. • Mazhar Hussain Mirza. Country Representative. • Mujeeb Ullah Khan. CEO. • Saleha Asif.
Ghazi Fabrics. Pakistan Cotton Council International, USA iTextiles (Pvt.) Ltd, Pakistan CEO. Pakistan T

Dr Sha que Ahmed Dr Khalid Abdullah Dr Masood Arshad Khawaja Tahir Mahmood Bilal Israel Khan Iqbal Khurram (Moderator) Panel: Developments for Eco-Friendly production in • Dr. Tanveer Hussain. Rector. National Textile
the Textiles University. Faisalabad
Eco-friendly textile production is the need of the hour • Tobias Schurr. Sales and Marketing Director,
amid climate change and rising pollution levels. Weitmann & Konrad GmbH & Co. KG, and
Therefore, the third panel focused on discussions for Managing Director of RotaSpray GmbH Germany
eco-friendly production in textiles. Sustainability • Axel Lukasch. Global Director Technical Resource,
practices can have environmental, social, and Huntsman Textile Effects. USA
economic impacts across the textile industry. For • Rizwan Afzal Chaudhry. Commercial Head.
discussion, followings were the group participants: Polyester Business. ICI Pakistan Ltd.
• Dr. Ayyazuddin. CEO. Pakistan Circular Fashion • Faiza Jamil. Programme Director, Pakistan
Council. Pakistan Environment Trust

Stephanie Thiers discussed how the US Cotton Trust 1985, the program has reduced 79% of water use,
Protocol is driving cotton sustainability. The Trust 37% soil loss, 54% energy consumption, and 49%
Protocol is a new program that brings quantifiable greenhouse gas emissions, and increased land use
and verifiable goals and measurements to more efficiency by 49%. Lieven Verraest shared the
sustainable cotton production that drives continuous success stories of using the US Cotton Trust Protocol
improvement in key sustainability metrics. Since from various international and Pakistani industries.

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