Better Cotton Initiative - Fashion Company Profile
Better Cotton - founded as the Better Cotton Initiative, or BCI - is a global not-for-profit organisation running the world's largest cotton sustainability programme. It exists to make global cotton production better for the people who produce it, better for the environment it grows in and better for the sector's future, licensing farmers who meet its standard and tracing certified cotton through the supply chains of many of the world's biggest clothing brands and retailers.
Company Snapshot
- Status
- Operating - the organisation now styles itself simply Better Cotton (renamed from the Better Cotton Initiative in 2021)
- Type
- Global not-for-profit organisation
- Headquarters
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Founded
- 2005
Company Profile
Because brands put Better Cotton claims on garment labels, this directory files the organisation among company names: a mill, brand or retailer asking who runs the system lands here. How the licensing and mass-balance system is designed to work is set out in the profile section below.
The Better Cotton Standard System is described as a holistic approach to sustainable cotton production which covers all three pillars of sustainability: environmental, social and economic. Each of the elements - from the Principles and Criteria to the monitoring mechanisms which show results and impact - work together to support the Better Cotton Standard System, and the credibility of Better Cotton and BCI. That chain of elements is the useful content of this page: a standard is only as strong as its criteria and its monitoring, and historical descriptions name both ends of the chain explicitly.
Better Cotton History
The earlier record for this company - its history, past brand line-ups, figures and photographs from the periods described - is kept on a separate page for historical reference.
Better Cotton History & Historical Profile →Common Questions
What is the Better Cotton Initiative?
A global not-for-profit organisation and the largest cotton sustainability program in the world, existing to make global cotton production better for the people who produce it, better for the environment it grows in and better for the sector's future.
What does the Better Cotton Standard System cover?
A holistic approach to sustainable cotton production covering all three pillars of sustainability - environmental, social and economic - from Principles and Criteria to monitoring mechanisms showing results and impact.
What is the system designed to achieve?
The exchange of good practices and the scaling up of collective action, to establish Better Cotton as a sustainable mainstream commodity, in the historical record.
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