Worldly, a sustainability data and analytics platform for the consumer goods industry, with a strong footprint in apparel and textiles, has won the Innovation and Environmental awards in the 2025 Just Style Excellence Awards.
Worldly aggregates primary environmental data from multi-tier suppliers and turns it into product and facility-level insights, automating Scope 3 measurement and providing dashboards that help brands and manufacturers act on emissions hotspots.
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The company won the Innovation award in the Supply Chain Decarbonization category for advancing product-level Scope 3 measurement and decision-ready insights that help brands act on emissions across their value chains. It won the Environmental award in the Supply Chain Emissions category for enabling granular, regulation-ready visibility into upstream emissions and supporting measurable reductions across suppliers and materials.
Primary-Data Automation for Product-Level Scope 3 Management
Worldly addresses a long-standing challenge for apparel and broader consumer goods companies: moving beyond spend-based models and generic emission factors to product-level carbon insights grounded in primary data from real facilities. Launched in September 2024 and expanded in 2025, the Product Impact Calculator (PIC) automates product-level Scope 3 calculations using companies’ purchase orders, product specifications, and supplier data. Tasks that previously took months can now be completed in minutes, generating emissions profiles by SKU and product line that are supported by limited assurance from Apex. Teams can refine models within an intuitive interface by adjusting materials, weights, components, and net material use, progressively increasing accuracy with primary data from actual factories and material suppliers.
PIC integrates primary data from the Higg Index ecosystem—facility environmental data (Higg FEM), the Higg Materials Sustainability Index (MSI), and the Higg Product Module (PM)—so brands can replace assumptions with operational inputs. With 2025 enhancements, the PIC incorporates primary data from suppliers that produce materials used in consumer goods, including upstream sources such as mills and gins, as well as finished goods suppliers. This supports more precise emissions calculations across fibers, processing, and assembly, which are critical stages for apparel and textiles.
Operating within a network of more than 40,000 brands, retailers, and suppliers, Worldly standardizes and aggregates supplier data for use across the value chain. Facility Data Manager (FDM) enables brands to evaluate environmental performance at the factory level as often as monthly, moving beyond annual updates and supporting more timely course corrections.
The Insights Hub complements these tools with a focused dashboard of decarbonization KPIs: total supply chain carbon emissions; carbon intensity at the individual facility or facility-group level; electricity and thermal carbon intensity; percent of onsite and purchased renewable electricity; and production energy intensity. These indicators help procurement, sourcing, sustainability, and compliance teams benchmark performance and target interventions—such as material changes, energy upgrades, or supplier shifts—where they can have the greatest impact.
Companies including Outdoor Research, Ruffwear, and United Legwear & Apparel Co. are using the PIC to monitor emissions across product portfolios, identify high-impact materials and facilities, and inform decisions across sourcing and design.
Primary-Data Transparency and Regulation-Ready Scope 3 Reporting
Worldly’s environmental contribution centers on enabling a granular and defensible understanding of supply chain emissions, together with solutions that support compliance and measurable reductions. In apparel and textiles, where well over 90% of emissions typically fall into Scope 3, the platform connects primary emissions data from upstream sources such as farms, gins, mills, dyehouses, and assembly plants to specific purchase orders and product specifications. This end-to-end visibility helps brands pinpoint where emissions concentrate and what is driving them, turning an opaque risk into a measurable management metric.
PIC outputs are supported by limited assurance from Apex, and the platform is designed to support disclosures aligned with regulations including CSRD, California climate disclosure laws, and French product labeling mandates. The same dataset used for Scope 3 reporting can also produce French Eco Scores and download print-ready labels, supporting both regulatory filings and consumer-facing requirements with consistent inputs.
The Insights Hub highlights the Top 5 Decarbonization KPIs that direct attention to high-impact levers. By identifying high-carbon materials, energy-intensive processes, or lagging facilities, brands can prioritize actions—such as switching inputs, upgrading equipment, increasing renewable electricity, or rebalancing volumes among suppliers—and track those changes through updated primary data.
Worldly’s approach lowers barriers to advanced environmental reporting for organizations of varying sizes within the apparel and consumer goods sectors. Companies can begin by uploading purchase orders and using default product impact models, then improve accuracy by integrating primary data as supplier participation grows. Standardized data collection and verification practices encourage continuous reporting from suppliers and provide brands with consistent inputs for target-setting and progress tracking. As more participants engage via the same tools and data standards, transparency improves and emissions reductions become easier to compare and manage across supply bases.
By making supply chain emissions visible, comparable, and actionable, Worldly enables brands and suppliers to collaborate on verified reductions and demonstrate results against emerging reporting expectations.
“We’re honored to be recognized by Just Style for helping the apparel and consumer goods industry make real, measurable progress. At Worldly, we believe that data is the foundation of meaningful change, but we also know that data alone isn’t enough. Its true value comes when it becomes shared intelligence that drives understanding, collaboration, and action. By turning deep supply chain data into shared insight, manufacturers, brands, and retailers can work together more effectively and equitably to make decisions and take actions that build a more responsible and resilient future for all.”
– Jay Gaines, Chief Marketing Officer, Worldly
Company Profile
Worldly is the leading sustainability data and analytics platform for the consumer goods industry, empowering brands, retailers, and manufacturers to turn primary data into strategic action. Trusted by over 40,000 companies across apparel, footwear, home furnishings, and sporting goods, Worldly provides deep visibility into environmental and social impact — from carbon and water to chemicals and labor — at the product, facility, and value-chain levels.
Built on the industry’s leading standards, including Cascale’s Higg Index tools, Worldly transforms raw data into actionable intelligence that helps businesses reduce risk, meet evolving regulations, and accelerate measurable impact.
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