ArticleJasmin Malik Chua | March 11, 2026 | Sourcing Journal
Kurt Kipka, chief impact officer at the Apparel Impact Institute, would be the first to admit he doesn’t want the environmental nonprofit’s latest tool to gain a “life of its own.”
Instead, he wants the Energy and Carbon Benchmark to serve as a voluntary reference point, one that allows textile facilities to break down their energy use by individual process—think knitting versus dyeing—rather than being graded as a single opaque unit. This shift to more granular data would make more “apples-to-apples” comparisons possible, Kipka noted.
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