{"id":28796,"date":"2025-08-06T10:10:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/?p=28796"},"modified":"2025-08-06T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T17:10:18","slug":"press-op-ed-apparels-emissions-are-rising-so-must-industry-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/resources\/press-op-ed-apparels-emissions-are-rising-so-must-industry-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Press\/Op-Ed: Apparel\u2019s Emissions Are Rising, So Must Industry\u00a0Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Lewis Perkins, Kurt Kipka | August 5, 2025 | Sourcing Journal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparel industry emissions jumped 7.5 percent in 2023, the first increase since we began tracking in 2019. That rise, revealed in the latest Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) report, brings the sector\u2019s total footprint to 944 million metric tons of CO\u2082e\u2014nearly 2 percent of all global emissions\u2014and further derails the industry from its 2030 climate goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sourcingjournal.com\/sustainability\/sustainability-compliance\/apparels-emissions-are-rising-aii-1234758538\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lewis Perkins, Kurt Kipka | August 5, 2025 | Sourcing Journal Apparel industry emissions jumped 7.5 percent in 2023, the first increase since we began tracking in 2019. That rise, revealed in the latest Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) report, brings the sector\u2019s total footprint to 944 million metric tons of CO\u2082e\u2014nearly 2 percent of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":28798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48,47,49],"tags":[],"media-types":[51],"class_list":["post-28796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aii-updates-category","category-industry-category","category-thought-leadership-category","media-types-article"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28796","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=28796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28796"},{"taxonomy":"media-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apparelimpact.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-types?post=28796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}