Free online tool helps measure and reduce the environmental footprint of blank apparel to aid companies with their ecological transition
Glimpact, a platform designed to analyze the overall systemic environmental impact of products and organizations, has launched something it calls its Global Impact Score, a publicly accessible online tool to measure and analyze the explanatory factors of environmental footprint for all fashion products in North America. Beyond measurement, the tool also helps identify the right levers for significantly reducing impact though eco-design approaches based on dynamic simulation.
Global Impact score is free to use for anyone and performs calculations according to the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodological framework—an approach that looks at 16 environmental indicators across a product’s entire life cycle with the results aggregated into a single score to be understood as a sort of environmental “price.”
Water, Land Use, Eco-toxicity All Factored In
According to Glimpact, “By considering crucial categories including water use, land use, eco-toxicity and more, this systemic vision acknowledges that the environmental crisis is about more than only carbon emissions.
The company goes on to say its method has also been adopted as the scientific framework of the European Union (EU) as part of its landmark regulation ESPR, which went into force in July 2024 and is “poised to revolutionize product design practices by placing environmental performance at the heart of product development and innovation in the fashion industry.”
Apparel Industry Under Pressure to Reduce Environmental Impact
The release of Global Impact Score comes as fashion brands face rising scrutiny over their sustainability claims and prepare for stricter regulatory requirements both in Europe and globally. By providing easy access to high-fidelity environmental data, Glimpact’s tool helps shift the focus from superficial ESG gestures, such as recyclable packaging, to the high-impact upstream processes that can truly offer impact reduction leverage.
“The environmental crisis is not just about climate, it’s systemic and must take into account all components of the ecological crisis” said Christophe Girardier, founder and CEO of Glimpact. “Our new Global Impact Score tool makes the scientific methodological framework adopted by the European Union accessible to all fashion stakeholders. This empowers brands to prepare for and comply with the requirements of the ESPR, which will make it mandatory to declare the environmental performance of each product and comply with eco-design requirements.”
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