US Cotton Trust Protocol named as ISEAL community member

The organisation focuses on a wide variety of global challenges such as the climate emergency, biodiversity crisis and human rights issues among others. ISEAL works to define credible practices for sustainability, foster collaboration and shared experience, deliver expertise and training, and promote innovation to strengthen sustainability systems, US Trust Cotton Protocol said in a media statement.

ISEAL community members must be committed to continually improving their systems through learning and innovation, with emphasis on the importance of collaboration. They also are required to be transparent about how their programmes’ work and how they measure impacts.

The Trust Protocol is the only fibre sustainability system that provides quantifiable, verifiable goals and measurement and drives continuous improvement in six key sustainability metrics - land use, soil carbon, water management, soil loss, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy efficiency. It also is the world’s first sustainable cotton fibre to offer its members article-level supply chain transparency through the protocol consumption management solution.

“I’m very happy to congratulate the US Cotton Trust Protocol on becoming an ISEAL community member. The Trust Protocol supports cotton producers to develop bespoke management plans aimed at improving their sustainability, and innovative use of data and metrics supports measurement of success over time. We are excited to have a fresh perspective in the ISEAL learning community, and to have another member working to improve sustainability outcomes in the cotton sector,” Karin Kreider, ISEAL’s executive director, said in a statement.

“We are proud that the Trust Protocol was accepted as an ISEAL community member understanding the rigorous process and governance ISEAL adheres to. ISEAL community membership provides the Trust Protocol the continued opportunity to set a new standard in more sustainable cotton production where full transparency is a reality and continuous improvement to reduce our environmental footprint is the central goal,” Gary Adams, president of the US Cotton Trust Protocol, said.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (GK)