by Sarah Jane Stone | Jun 27, 2022 | Microfibers
On June 12, 2022 a New York Times article highlighted some of the difficulties and misconceptions of measuring environmental impacts in the fashion industry. Given Cotton Incorporated’s mission as a research organization, we’re encouraged to see discussion around...
by Sarah Jane Stone | Jun 2, 2022 | Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Sustainability data
Carbon markets are rapidly emerging as a way to incentivize cotton producers to continuously adopt more conservation agriculture practices as well as providing companies and countries options to reach their greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reduction targets. Carbon...
by Sarah Jane Stone | Apr 14, 2022 | Microfibers
At first glance, National Laundry Day, celebrated on April 15, might seem like many of the other “holidays,” that increasingly populate our calendars in order to draw attention to a particular industry or item. For National Laundry Day 2022 we wanted to focus on an...
by Sarah Jane Stone | Apr 8, 2022 | Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The World Resources Institute (WRI) recently published an emission reduction roadmap, laying out an ambitious path for the apparel industry to move towards net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It offers welcome guidance for the value chain leveraging existing...
by Sarah Jane Stone | Mar 17, 2022 | Circularity
As we continue to look for ways to make cotton more sustainable, our biggest ally is science. At Cotton Incorporated, we regularly team with leading research institutions to scientifically study how to make cotton more sustainable – either by reducing environmental...
