Glimpact starts Global Impact Score – a free online tool for measuring and reducing the ecological footprint of clothing, which reveals a new vision of the challenges of the ecological transition of the fashion industry

New York, May 8, 2025 (Globe Newswire) -Glimpact, the first platform for analyzing the systemic environmental impact of products and organizations, has launched the global impact score today, North America's first publicly accessible online tool for measuring and analyzing the explanatory factors for the environmental footprint for all fashions. Apart from the measurement, this tool helps to identify the right levers in order to reduce the effects considerably, even though the dynamic simulation is applied to ecodesign approaches.

Global Impact Score can be used free of charge for everyone and carries out calculations according to the methodological framework for product environmental photo (PEF). This LCA approach deals with 16 environmental indicators in the entire product life cycle, whereby the results are aggregated in a single number of points that is understood as a kind of environmental price. By taking decisive categories, including water consumption, land use, eco-toxicity and more, this systemic view recognizes that the environmental crisis affects more than just carbon emissions. This method is used as a scientific framework of the EU by the ESPR regulation that came into force in July 2024 and is ready to revolutionize product design practices by placing environmental output in the center of product development and innovation in the fashion industry.

With this instrument there is a new understanding of the drivers of ecological footprint for all mod products and emphasizes the need for a strict measurement to determine the initiatives to improve the reduction. Apart from the analysis at product level, this tool shows broader insights into the real and unexpected challenges of ecological transition for the fashion industry, which was shown in a recently carried out study with Glimpact, which with the help of global impact score analyzed specific clothing products from Patagonia, Reformation, H&M, Aloo Yoga and Ralph Lauren.

Key features of the Global Impact Score platform:

• Global calculations for the environment footprint: Global impact score measures the environmental influences in 16 indicators of clothing products from Cradle-to-Grave, as defined by the PEF method and the category rules developed by the European Commission in cooperation with industry stakeholders and in April 2025 as a reference framework for the application of the ESPR.
• Analysis of explanatory factors: The evaluation results are divided into the life cycle level and the category of environmental impact assessments and offer insights into the most important drivers of the environmental footprint
• Ecodesign simulations: Users can test changes to material procurement, production methods and other variables to see their real-time effect of Eco-Design initiatives on the overall effect.
• Open access for everyone: For companies and consumers, are also available online and mark an important step to democratize the knowledge of the life cycle evaluation (LCA).

The global impact score is published, since fashion brands have increasing control over their sustainability claims and prepare for stricter regulatory requirements in both Europe and worldwide. Thanks to the simple access to ambient data with high fidelity, the glimpact tool offers the focus of superficial ESG gestures, such as:

“The environmental crisis is not just about the climate, but systemic and must take all components of the ecological crisis into account, ”said Christophe Girardier, founder and CEO of Glimpact.”In our new tool for global impact score, the scientific methodological framework used by the European Union is accessible to all fashion trailers. This enables brands to prepare the requirements of the ESPR and meet the requirements, which means that it is mandatory to declare the environmental output of each product and to meet the requirements of ecodesign.

It is time for the fashion industry to use a new era to put the ÖKO design in the heart of development models and not on purely marketing and opportunistic level. “

Further information or a specific demo of the Global Impact Score can be found by email to product-na@glimpact.com

About a glance

Glimpact, a sustainability company with operations in New York, France and Belgium, is the first digital platform to evaluate the general environmental impact of products and organizations based on the new EU scientific doctrine. It offers access to the access developed by the European Scientific Community and developed by the EU in 2021 by the EU and adopted by the EU and adopted by the EU. With GLIMPACT, everyone involved can not only measure the ecological footprint of their products or organizations, but what is even more important to identify effective measures to reduce this.

The French government has selected a look as a coordinator for one of the methods that are taken into account in the government experiment for environmental identification of food and textile products. The company is a member of the Technical Committee, which supports the Ministry of Ecological Transition in the definition of the environmental identification prescribed by the Climate and Resilience Act. Glimpact was selected by the European Commission after a global tender to implement laws for the battery and photovoltaic solar sector. In this legislation, these actors must show the ecological footprint of their products, which are measured using the PEF methodology.

A look already offers solid specialist knowledge and experiences with the most important actors in the industry and sales, including Lacoste, Decathlon, Mars, Gant, Carrefour, Puratos, Manutan, Spadel, Adeo, Lyeco, Pimkie, Chantelle, Celio, Aigle, Galler and Consultation.

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Global impact score from Glimpact

The global impact score is published, since fashion brands have increasing control over their sustainability claims and prepare for stricter regulatory requirements in both Europe and worldwide. Thanks to the simple access to ambient data with high fidelity, the glimpact tool offers the focus of superficial ESG gestures, such as: