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China Textile Federation Releases Lcaplus Digital Textile Whole Life Cycle Green Assessment Platform
After seven years of hard work, China's textile and clothing industry has finally ushered in another important milestone on the path of low-carbon development. On October 26, 2023, the LCAplus platform for textile life cycle assessment of China's textile and clothing industry ("LCAplus platform" for short) made its debut at the "2023 China Garment Conference". The launch of this platform marks a key step forward for China's textile and clothing industry in implementing the "dual carbon" development path, and will open the door to high-speed development of product carbon footprint services, and promote China's textile and clothing industry to a more green and sustainable future.
Sun Ruizhe, President of China Textile Industry Federation, Chen Dapeng, Vice President of China Textile Industry Federation, Yan Yan, Director of Social Responsibility Office of China Textile Industry Federation, Chen Hu, Deputy General Manager of Brand Business Department of Ordos Cashmere Group, Representative of Industry Practice Pioneer Enterprises, and Gong Yanqi, Director and Vice President of Jinba Men's Wear, jointly witnessed the launch of LCAplus platform.
Be diligent and diligent
The birth of LCAplus platform is undoubtedly shouldering a profound and grand mission: leading the textile and clothing industry to green transformation, and promoting the noble contribution to humanity and civilization through technology and responsibility. As a global textile and clothing industry and a major consumer, China's textile and clothing industry shoulders a major mission, advocating green industrial chain collaboration, providing credible, reliable and comparable environmental performance data, developing supporting scientific and applicable methods and tools, and supporting product greening and end green consumption, which has become an inevitable demand of the textile and clothing industry. Yan Yan said that in order to lead the textile and clothing industry towards a more resilient and sustainable future, the China Textile Industry Federation (hereinafter referred to as the "China Textile Federation") took the lead in launching the "Carbon Management Innovation 2020 Action" as early as 2017, put forward the grand vision of achieving a "zero carbon" industry by 2050, and signed the UN Fashion Industry Climate Action Charter in 2018, In 2019, the "Carbon Management Innovation 2020 Action" was upgraded to the "Climate Innovation 2030 Action", and the industry chain LCA measurement was officially carried out, In 2021, the "Fashion Climate Innovation 30 · 60 Carbon Neutralization Acceleration Plan" (referred to as the "30 · 60 Plan") was officially launched. In 2022, online and offline climate training camps were widely carried out to steadily promote the dual carbon strategic planning at the organizational level of enterprises, and the dual carbon strategic planning of Shengze textile cluster and the carbon footprint assessment of dozens of products in the life cycle were completed. As of September 2023, a total of 21 brand enterprises, 42 manufacturing enterprises and 3 industrial clusters have joined the "30 · 60 Plan", and continue to deepen the product life cycle assessment.
Scientific evaluation, accumulated and developed
Product prices and values are being redefined. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that "advocating green consumption and promoting the formation of green and low-carbon production and lifestyle". As an important tool to promote green and low-carbon consumption, product carbon labels are becoming one of the most effective means to guide and promote green production and consumption. How to scientifically attach a credible carbon label to products has also become a concern of more and more enterprises. Life cycle assessment (LCA) method is the basis for realizing resource and environmental protection from the product level, and is called the best assessment method by the EU. Many enterprises have also carried out many practices in the sustainable field with products as the focus.
Despite the scientific evaluation method to support the credible carbon label, the brand still faces five challenges in the actual application of product carbon labels:
First, the textile supply chain is highly discrete, and reliable data is difficult to obtain;
Second, the database quality is uneven, and the local trusted data is scarce;
Third, market tools are mixed, and key process information is easy to leak;
Fourth, product optimization mostly relies on end feedback, and green standards and collaboration consensus are missing;
Fifth, there are barriers in the sustainable supply chain, and the value positioning and effective transmission lag behind.
As the secretariat of CNTAC-LCA working group, China Textile Information Center attaches great importance to the implementation of the national "double carbon" strategy, actively explores the new path of digital green integration, and bravely assumes the new mission of green and low-carbon development of the textile and clothing industry. On the basis of in-depth understanding of the characteristics of the textile and clothing industry and the needs of enterprises, after seven years of precipitation and accumulation, the gradually iterative and improved digital green textile "LCAplus platform" developed by China Textile Information Center will be officially launched. The platform aims to provide the market with a credible and scientific platform for the full life cycle analysis, evaluation and design of green textile products, and help realize the green attribute tracing and value mining of products in the whole value chain from production to consumption.
Focus on pain points, digital empowerment
Always adhering to the concept of diligence and honesty, and committed to the in-depth exploration of the industry's sustainable research, China Textile Federation has built the glory of LCAplus platform with the spirit of "seven years of sharpening a sword". Due to the long chain and complex process of textile and clothing industry, many challenges may be encountered in actual operation. The CNTAC-LCA Working Group Secretariat has summarized six pain points for LCA measurement work in the past three years - collaboration, traceability, modeling, analysis, security, and promotion. LCAplus platform has provided perfect solutions using digital technology. Yan Yan said that LCAplus is a digital industrial platform for one-stop carbon footprint assessment, certification and label promotion of products. It integrates seven core functions of product modeling, supply chain management, comparative analysis, report management, information disclosure, database management and process chain management, and provides enterprises with comprehensive digital services for product environmental performance, including data collection Modeling and accounting, report analysis, emission reduction optimization and green management.
LCAplus platform has five characteristics: first, it is efficient and convenient, which can realize the agile collaboration of platform based industrial chain partners and solve the pain points of industrial chain collaboration; Second, co construction and sharing can provide localized database and supply chain applications to solve the pain points of data traceability and modeling difficulties; The third is security computing to ensure the confidentiality of supply chain data and solve the pain point of process data disclosure; Fourth, collaborative improvement, providing green analysis of products to promote carbon reduction potential and solve the pain points of analysis and improvement; The fifth is value co creation, which supports the transmission of the value chain of visual electronic labels and solves the pain points of publicity and promotion.
Deep practice and continuous exploration
Product life cycle assessment often needs a lot of data support, and usually uses two types of data: Foreground data and Background data. Real data usually needs to be obtained through field survey, and background data usually needs to be obtained through database, both of which are essential data for product life cycle assessment. Especially in the actual product evaluation, due to the limitation of data availability, the use of background database cannot be avoided. The use of background database can improve the effect and reduce the cost. However, the lack of high-quality local database has seriously restricted the accuracy and credibility of the LCA results of Chinese textiles.
China Textile Federation has always attached great importance to this issue. After years of accumulation, it has gradually built a carbon footprint database of textile and clothing with Chinese characteristics. This valuable wealth has been integrated into the LCAplus platform, providing strong support for enterprises to trace environmental data throughout the process, and effectively supporting the comprehensive evaluation from "cradle" to "grave". Yan Yan said that China Textile Information Center has successfully completed a complete supply chain live data collection and evaluation for 32 end brands and 102 end consumer textiles, involving 173 suppliers, covering 13 fiber types, 6 spinning methods, 24 yarn count types, 2 fabric weaving methods and 3 dyeing methods, covering clothing, bedding, fabrics Yarn and other textile and clothing segments. In addition, it has successfully completed the first evaluation of a number of sub categories, such as the first measurement and tracing of Xinjiang cotton T-shirt's full supply chain data in China, the carbon footprint evaluation of China's first business casual men's wear, the carbon footprint evaluation of China's first bedding suit, and the carbon footprint evaluation of China's first all-in-one bra, It fully demonstrates the leading and promoting role of China Textile Federation in the sustainable field of textile and clothing products.
Work together to create the future
LCAplus platform is committed to promoting the establishment of a scientific, reasonable, unified and standardized evaluation system, improving the efficiency and accuracy of enterprise accounting, providing enterprises with emission reduction entry points and strategic paths, improving the value and competitiveness of enterprises' green low-carbon brands, and realizing digital green management of textile and clothing products. LCAplus platform is not only an efficient LCA computing tool, but also a combination of "digital" features and "green" functions, which can help enterprises conveniently manage and disclose environmental information of products and optimize product design and production processes.
For textile and clothing enterprises, LCAplus platform can help enterprises to establish internal energy management system and product environmental footprint assessment system based on LCA, help enterprises to master product environmental footprint management ability more quickly and economically, and accelerate enterprises to achieve their own environmental goals.
For the textile and clothing industry, LCAplus platform can help the industry achieve green transformation and upgrading, improve the ability of industry enterprises to cope with green trade barriers in the international market and international competitiveness, and provide China's industrial solutions for the global fashion industry's emission reduction goals.
For countries, the development of LCAplus platform actively responds to and implements the national "double carbon" goals, helps to achieve China's national independent emission reduction goals, and responds to the cooperation and practice at the global climate level.
The release of LCAplus platform is not only a technological innovation, but also a commitment and responsibility of the industry to environmental protection and sustainable development. It is undoubtedly an important leap forward for China's textile and clothing industry on the low-carbon development path. The marathon of "carbon neutrality" requires all people to stay where they are and work together.
Next, China Textile Information Center will carry out LCAplus platform trial for key enterprises, further optimize functions according to enterprise feedback, and provide application scenarios for the standard pilots of Technical Specifications for Carbon Labeling of Textiles and Technical Specifications for Carbon neutral Textile Evaluation, further expand its application scope, and integrate low-carbon concepts into more industries and products, Make greater contributions to global sustainable development.
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