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Decarbonisation / AII Benchmark

13 March 2026

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Lack of Clear Energy Performance Standards Slows Fashion Decarbonisation, New Industry Benchmark Framework Indicates

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The Apparel Impact Institute (AII) has launched the Energy and Carbon Benchmark, a new tool designed to measure energy use and emissions across textile manufacturing processes. Developed with industry partners, it establishes process-level metrics to compare facilities, track performance over time, and guide collective decarbonisation efforts across the global fashion supply chain.

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India’s denim sector reflects the transformation of a once domestic manufacturing base into a globally integrated production ecosystem supplying fabric and garments to international fashion markets.

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Worn Again Launches Textile to Fibre Accelerator Plant to Scale Polycotton Recycling and Demonstrate Industrial Viability

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Urban households generated substantially higher carbon emissions than rural households due to significantly higher clothing consumption levels.

Household Demand and Exports Drove Most of China’s Textile Emissions Growth, New Sector Analysis Finds

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3 March 2026

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Climate Action / Decarbonisation Costs
Climate exposure in apparel is increasingly expressed in margins and capital flows rather than abstract sustainability metrics or voluntary disclosures.

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  • Subir Ghosh
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23 February 2026

Climate risk is increasingly being modelled not as a reputational concern but as a margin-level financial exposure. New analysis suggests operating profits in apparel could shrink sharply under accelerated net-zero transitions. Kristina Elinder Liljas, Senior Director of Sustainable Finance and Engagement at Apparel Impact Institute, argues that carbon exposure now belongs inside capital allocation models, not sustainability reports.

 
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From sowing to spinning, every segment of India’s cotton value chain is under stress, affected by rising costs, outdated technology, and fragmented policy oversight across ministries.

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Kristina Elinder Lilja
Kristina Elinder Lilja
Senior Director, Sustainable Finance and Engagement
Apparel Impact Institute
Carbon pricing would be the most structurally embedded risk and hardest to reverse. Carbon pricing is different as it sits directly on Scope 3, where 96–99% of apparel emissions occur. That means it’s embedded in Tier 2 manufacturing and upstream energy systems. Unless those systems decarbonise, cost exposure compounds year over year.
MORE: Fashion’s Growth Model Faces a Structural Climate Stress Test

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Ripple Patel
Ripple Patel
Managing Director
Fiotex Cotspin Pvt Ltd
Cotton is a cash crop and has always given better profitability compared to others like peanuts. Before 2002, we had local varieties like Shankar-6. Yields were low, but returns were higher than other crops. In 2002–03, when BT cotton was introduced, it doubled yields from 250–300 kg per hectare to about 500 kg. Costs rose only 20–30%. Farmers prospered in those years.
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