{"id":27734,"date":"2024-08-09T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apparelimpactinstitute.local\/?p=27734"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:32:42","slug":"report-low-carbon-thermal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/resources\/report-low-carbon-thermal\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Low-Carbon Thermal Energy Technologies for the Textile Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our \"<a href=\"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Taking-Stock-of-Progress-Against-the-Roadmap-to-Net-Zero-2024-5.15.pdf\">Taking Stock of Progress Against the Roadmap to Net Zero 2024\"<\/a> report estimates that the apparel sector represents approximately 2% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. With production rates increasing in many countries, there is a need to adopt cleaner, more efficient, and low-carbon technologies to mitigate climate impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"<a href=\"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Low-Carbon-Thermal-Energy-8.27.24.pdf\">Low-Carbon Thermal Energy Technologies for the Textile Industry<\/a>,\" commissioned by Aii and authored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalefficiencyintel.com\/\">Global Efficiency Intelligence<\/a>, explores the readiness of major textile-producing countries to adopt low-carbon heating technologies, assessing solar thermal; electrification (including electric boilers, heat pumps, and thermal energy storage); sustainable biomass; and natural gas. It provides a detailed evaluation of each technology, focusing on capital and operational costs, technological maturity, market growth outlook, and climate and environmental risks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the first of a two-report series. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1GKhvjEm6awhq9IOuY_-1LZbFbwLRlGVj\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=109246679524713144121&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\">Read part two<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Low Carbon Thermal Energy for the Textile Industry\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I-PspUi5uxg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our \"Taking Stock of Progress Against the Roadmap to Net Zero 2024\" report estimates that the apparel sector represents approximately 2% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. With production rates increasing in many countries, there is a need to adopt cleaner, more efficient, and low-carbon technologies to mitigate climate impacts. \"Low-Carbon Thermal Energy Technologies for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"47","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47,49],"tags":[],"media-types":[55],"class_list":["post-27734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-category","category-thought-leadership-category","media-types-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27734"},{"taxonomy":"media-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-types?post=27734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}