Apparel Impact Institute

A just-published Apparel Impact Institute (AII) report named India as a crucial region for impactful decarbonisation interventions and outlined solutions for mobilising sustainable financing, stating that with the right monies, manufacturing can play a key role in meeting the country’s climate targets, especially the emissions-intensity target of 45% below 2005 levels by 2030. texfash talks to AII President Lewis Perkins to learn how India’s apparel manufacturers are pursuing decarbonisation and how it can be financed at scale.

The Apparel Impact Institute (AII) has published a report on the Indian textiles and apparel industry, contending that the country is succeeding in sourcing green finance with over $2.5 billion already available to decarbonise the industry in India, but a big financial gap still exists.

There is feasibility and value in engaging in circular, textile-to-textile recycling systems for cotton, as also benefits for all involved stakeholders, affirms Accelerating Circularity's much-anticipated Global Cotton Report.

The $250 million Fashion Climate Fund (FCF) has received a new shot of $4 million from HSBC to drive forward FCF’s mission of driving industry-wide convergence to modernise apparel and footwear supply chains to meet the industry’s ambition to halve carbon emissions by 2030.

Global nonprofit Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) has announced the first grant recipients from its Climate Solutions Portfolio that seeks to promote decarbonisation in the fashion industry.

A new report says that the global textiles & fashion industry will need to take drastic action to stay within the 1.5°C trajectory. It will need to cut down emissions by 45% in the next seven years.

The just announced dashboard of a multi-stakeholder initiative on critical issues in the fashion industry has revealed that the wage gap has increased by 3.5% over last year and there’s an increase of greenhouse gas emissions by 0.87%

Apparel Impact Institute (AII) has opened its first call for applications for the Climate Solutions Portfolio, a soon-to-launch registry of proven carbon reduction solutions for the fashion industry. 

Each stakeholder in the leather industry, be it the tanner, trader, supplier or customer must get involved to get leather to a safe place in the mind of new younger consumers, and throughout the supply network involved. There are no impossible hurdles for a determined leather industry to make great strides quickly and set an achievable target date with milestones.

Target Corporation would be a new lead funder of the $250 million Fashion Climate Fund of the Apparel Impact Institute, which is working towards meeting the fashion industry's step towards reducing carbon emissions.