{"id":28997,"date":"2025-11-13T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/?post_type=faq-posts&#038;p=28997"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T01:50:39","slug":"what-are-the-benefits-of-the-aii-benchmarking-approach","status":"publish","type":"faq-posts","link":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/questions\/what-are-the-benefits-of-the-aii-benchmarking-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the benefits of the Aii benchmarking approach?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Aii benchmarking tool builds on and enhances existing approaches to provide a level of detail that can help both brands and facilities. This method allows monitoring of year-on-year progress for individual facilities and objective facility-to-facility comparisons. By focusing on measurable energy and emissions outcomes, the benchmark shifts attention from specific mandated interventions to performance-driven improvements that deliver meaningful climate impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>For Brands<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>For Suppliers<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Provides visibility into the most significant opportunities for emissions reduction, distinguishing between high emitters and low-efficiency performers.<\/td><td>For the first time, facilities can objectively understand whether they are under- or over-performing relative to peers in terms of both energy use and emissions.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Supports more effective allocation of resources and avoids investments with diminishing returns.<\/td><td>This standardized approach increases access to funding and technical resources. High-performing facilities can use their results as a selling point for brands that prioritize energy and emissions performance. Under-performing facilities can receive guidance and support through Aii and partner brand programs.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Informs sourcing strategies based on measurable performance improvements rather than prescriptive technology choices.<\/td><td>Enables more appropriate engagement from brands according to actual performance: support for facilities that are \u201cbelow benchmark\u201d and have significant potential for improvement and recognition for those that are \u201cabove benchmark. \u201c<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faq-categories":[132],"class_list":["post-28997","faq-posts","type-faq-posts","status-publish","hentry","faq-categories-carbon-and-energy-benchmark"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-posts\/28997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq-posts"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"faq-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq-categories?post=28997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}