After about two years of development, Oeko-Tex has produced an “impact calculator” with which textile and leather companies can track their CO2 emissions and water use and share the data with customers, investors, business partners or others. The tool is available to customers of STeP by Oeko-Tex. Later this year, the company will also be launching a certification of corporate due diligence, called Responsible Business by Oeko-Tex. It also will announce annual changes in test criteria, limit values and certification standards, starting on April 1. Oeko-Tex confers the “Made in Green” label only to companies that earn its STeP certification.
All of these steps are in line with what the textile sector’s representatives proposed at the 2021 World Climate Conference: namely, a more stringent version of the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action. About 130 companies have pledged to cut at least 30 percent of their carbon emissions by 2030.
