2024 National Low Carbon Day Green Low Carbon Beautiful China

May 15, 2024 is the National Low Carbon Day with the theme of "Green Low Carbon Beautiful China". On this important day, the China Textile Industry Federation has formulated Technical Specifications for the Establishment and Evaluation of Carbon neutral Factories in the Textile Industry, Technical Specifications for the Evaluation of Carbon neutral Textiles, and Technical Specifications for Carbon Labeling of Textiles The three group standards symbolize that China's textile industry has taken an important step in promoting green transformation. They will play an important role in leading green and low-carbon development and promoting industrial transformation and upgrading. They will certainly promote the transformation of traditional productivity to new quality productivity and promote high-quality industrial development.

The China Textile Industry Federation launched the "Carbon Management Innovation 2020 Action" in 2017 to promote the independent emission reduction action of industry enterprises and promote the transformation and upgrading of green development of the industry; The Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Completely, Accurately and Comprehensively Implementing the New Development Concept and Doing a Good Job of Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutralization and the Action Plan for Carbon Peak by 2030 will launch the "30 · 60 Carbon Neutralization Acceleration Plan for Fashion Brands" on the basis of the national double carbon goals in 2021, and 64 key industrial brands and manufacturing enterprises will join the plan.

According to the Implementation Plan for Carbon Peak in the Industrial Field issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the three group standards are proposed by the China Textile Industry Federation and under the jurisdiction of the Standardization Technology Committee of the China Textile Industry Federation. The standard has been approved since July 2022. It will take 20 months to complete the drafting and approval on December 15, 2023, and will be implemented in March 2024. Under the organization of the Social Responsibility Office of the China Textile Industry Federation, a total of 22 "30 · 60 Carbon Neutralization and Acceleration Plan for Fashion Brands" action enterprises and 9 sub industry organizations participated in the drafting of the standard. The drafting group carried out several rounds of research discussions and expert consultation in the process, carefully studied major issues, and finally reached consensus to form the standard release.

　
　　CNTAC 187

Technical Specifications for the Establishment and Evaluation of Carbon neutral Plants in the Textile Industry

　　 Scientifically control carbon, standardize neutralization

Global policies continue to drive "carbon neutral" hot spots, and carbon neutral plants have become an important hand in industrial low-carbon transformation. The Technical Specification for the Establishment and Evaluation of Carbon neutral Factories in the Textile Industry standardizes the establishment and evaluation process of carbon neutral factories in textile enterprises, and provides detailed guidance for each step in the preparation stage, implementation stage and evaluation stage.

In order to drive enterprises to take substantive emission reduction measures, encourage enterprises to participate and ensure rigorous and scientific standards, the carbon neutral plants are divided into "plan level", "standard level" and "advanced level"; Among them, the standard specifically stipulates "independent emission reduction", taking the proportion of independent emission reduction as an important basis for grading carbon neutral plants. Only enterprises with independent emission reduction of more than 60% can be rated as "up to standard", while those with independent emission reduction of 80% or successfully developing carbon neutral products can be rated as "advanced".

In addition, the standard innovatively sets carbon neutral products as one of the key options to meet the requirements of the advanced level. On the one hand, it can be linked to the collaborative application of the Technical Specifications for Carbon Neutral Textile Evaluation, and on the other hand, the products serve as an important carrier for the upstream and downstream of the textile industry, brand and consumer communication, It is of great significance to explore and promote green consumption path and pass on green value.

In order to drive enterprises to truly reduce emissions and prevent the growth of green washing, the drafting group paid attention to the misleading problem caused by vague words in the enterprise's public publicity. The standard specifically stipulated the "information disclosure and supervision mechanism" and "zero tolerance" for the statements of key information hidden in the "creation statement" and "realization statement" of carbon neutral plants, Make provisions on enterprise publicity/public communication techniques to avoid misleading information caused by vague statements.

As a part of China's carbon neutral standard system, this standard can not only fill the gap of relevant standards in the textile industry, but also provide guidance for the construction of carbon neutral factories in the textile industry; At the same time, encourage and promote the textile industry to spontaneously build carbon neutral plants, and take this as a fulcrum to pull the development of carbon neutral products inward, assist enterprises and industrial parks outward to explore carbon neutral paths, and promote the ultimate realization of all-round and multi-dimensional sustainable development.

　　CNTAC 188

Technical Specification for Evaluation of Carbon neutral Textiles

Full chain carbon control, product first

At present, the international and domestic policy and regulatory trends jointly drive "carbon neutrality" to become the focus issue, and the textile industry urgently needs to layout carbon neutral products to form industrial competitive advantages. Under the goal of reducing emissions in the whole value chain, products are becoming an important carrier for enterprises to achieve sustainable value.

The Technical Specification for Evaluation of Carbon neutral Textiles innovatively establishes the evaluation process of carbon neutral textiles, reasonably sets the boundary of the textile system, and stipulates that the boundary should cover at least 95% of the emissions of the functional units of the evaluated products. The standard specifies the product carbon footprint accounting method to ensure the accurate calculation of greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of textiles, proposes the evaluation method and examples of textile carbon footprint data quality grade, and emphasizes the implementation of refined data quality scoring for key inputs/outputs accounting for at least the top 80% of total carbon emissions.

In order to guide enterprises to set emission reduction paths and measures and strengthen their environmental responsibilities, the standard stipulates that the product carbon neutrality management plan should adhere to the core principle of "emission reduction priority over offset", and comprehensively cover the emission reduction time limit, objectives, measures and planned carbon footprint offset strategies. In addition, the subject of evaluation shall disclose the progress of emission reduction in the annual public report. In terms of emission reduction practice, the standard specifies measures to directly reduce the carbon footprint of products. For inevitable emissions, it introduces a carbon offset mechanism and advocates offsetting the remaining emissions through recognized carbon information. The subject of final carbon neutral textile evaluation shall complete the product carbon neutral realization statement according to the standard requirements.

As a creative document to fill the gap of domestic carbon neutral textile evaluation standards, this standard can help enterprises cope with carbon reduction in product life cycle on the one hand; On the other hand, it can link enterprises to establish carbon neutral plants, disclose the carbon footprint of products and other multiple needs, and establish mutual references with relevant standards. Internally, it can respond to the multi-level needs of domestic textile enterprises, and build the capacity of textile enterprises to deal with the development of carbon footprint accounting of domestic products and carbon market transactions; Foreign countries can prepare for textile exports to deal with green trade barriers.

　　CNTAC 189

Technical Specification for Carbon Label of Textiles

Green consumption, carbon footprint

"Accelerating green and low-carbon development and controlling carbon emissions" has gradually become the mainstream consensus, and the demand for green labels at the production and consumption ends has become increasingly obvious. The Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Product Carbon Footprint Management System clearly states that "orderly promote the promotion and application of carbon labels in the field of consumer goods, guide businesses such as shopping malls and e-commerce platforms to actively display commodity carbon labels, and encourage consumers to purchase and use products with lower carbon footprints."

The Technical Specifications for Carbon Labeling of Textiles focuses on regulating the disclosure details of carbon footprint of textiles, refining the disclosure levels, and scientifically dividing them into "should be disclosed", "should be disclosed" and "can be disclosed", so as to facilitate the disclosure subject to disclose information in an open, transparent and easy to understand manner, and help consumers make green consumption decisions. The standard establishes universal rules for the validity period of label data to deal with the diversified market characteristics of textiles from raw materials to end products, and explains special situations to ensure the coexistence of flexibility and practicality. The level setting of "basic disclosure", "detailed disclosure" and "full disclosure" ensures that the label content is rich and diverse, which not only meets the basic disclosure needs, but also encourages in-depth disclosure, leading the industry to improve the transparency of environmental information. By standardizing the contents of self declaration and independent third party declaration, the preciseness and reliability of carbon label declaration have been strengthened, and the trust foundation of consumers and the market has been strengthened.

This standard fills the standard gap in the field of domestic textile carbon labels, clearly guides the standardization and transparency of textile carbon labels, and promotes the practice of standardized carbon label management in the textile industry by defining a unified form of carbon label presentation. For textile enterprises, it provides them with a systematic carbon label technology framework to promote green development at the enterprise level; For the consumer market, it can lead the consumer market to low-carbon transformation, advocate green consumption, and jointly promote a new green and sustainable production and consumption model.

　　 Yan Yan, Vice President of China Textile Industry Federation and Director of Social Responsibility Office It is pointed out that the introduction of these three standards fills the gap of relevant standards in the textile industry, and provides standardized and standardized guidance for textile enterprises to move towards the goal of carbon neutrality. The China Textile Industry Federation actively implements the Guidelines for the Construction of Carbon Peak Carbon Neutralization Standard System in the Industrial Field and the Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of Product Carbon Footprint Management System, and speeds up the research and development of relevant standards and industry tools. The three standards issued this time will promote the green and low-carbon transformation of the industry in the following three aspects:

　　 1. Promote green manufacturing and cultivate new quality productivity

The Technical Specifications for Evaluation of Carbon neutral Textiles and the Technical Specifications for Establishment and Evaluation of Carbon neutral Factories in the Textile Industry provide technical guidance for textile enterprises to adopt new materials, new processes and new equipment, and will promote the formation of a new mode of green low-carbon manufacturing. The construction of carbon neutral plants will vigorously promote new technologies for energy conservation and emission reduction, and foster intelligent and green new quality productivity.

　　 2. Optimize product structure to meet green consumption demand

The three standards provide norms for textile industry enterprises to achieve carbon neutrality in key links of the value chain and the whole life cycle, which will promote enterprises to develop new low-carbon textiles and optimize product structure. The standardized carbon label will guide consumers' green consumption concept, and the low-carbon textile will become a new consumption hotspot, which will promote new economic growth points from the supply side.

　　 3. Promote management innovation and improve resource utilization efficiency

The three standards will promote enterprises to strengthen refined management and improve resource utilization efficiency. The implementation of the three standards requires enterprises to strengthen technological innovation, which will certainly drive the innovation of management and business models and form new organizational productivity.

From May 30 to 31, 2024, China Textile Federation will be held in Beijing The 3rd "Climate Innovation Fashion Summit" , at that time Introduce the three standards And start Standard pilot work And discuss carbon neutral solutions with stakeholders.

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Registration deadline is May 28

　　 epilogue

Low carbon transformation, textile first. China's textile and clothing industry is an important participant, contributor and promoter of the construction of global ecological civilization. China Textile Federation will continue to guide more relevant parties in China's textile industry to join the climate action based on the three standards, promote the industry to accelerate the realization of "carbon" synergy and "carbon" cooperation in the value chain, create a carbon accounting and low-carbon evaluation system with Chinese characteristics and industrial characteristics, help achieve the national emission reduction goals, and promote green change in the global fashion industry.

　　 Thank the following review experts for their comments on the three standards:

　 List of drafting units:

List of drafting units of CNTAC 187 Technical Specification for Establishment and Evaluation of Carbon neutral Plants in Textile Industry

List of drafting units of CNTAC 188 Technical Specification for Evaluation of Carbon neutral Textiles

List of drafting units of CNTAC 189 Technical Specification for Carbon Label of Textiles

(Source: China Textile Federation Social Responsibility Office)