# Green Story > Sustainability data at AI speed. Peace of mind by human design. Green Story is a sustainability data company for fashion, home textiles and footwear brands and their manufacturers. It combines an AI platform with PhD-level experts to deliver product life-cycle assessments, digital product passports, Scope 1–3 carbon accounting, supply chain traceability and compliance-ready reporting. The data is built within the supply chain: collected and verified at the facilities that make each product, with the source of every figure recorded. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Utrecht, the Netherlands, with offices in Toronto, Nagpur and Hong Kong. Works with more than 200 companies across 35+ countries. ## Platform - [Features](https://greenstory.io/features): The platform and the expert services, by what each one produces. - [Product LCA](https://greenstory.io/features/product-lca): Cradle-to-grave product footprints modelled from the orders you actually placed and the suppliers who actually made the garment, with the measured share stated on every result. - [Carbon accounting](https://greenstory.io/features/carbon-accounting): A company footprint across every emission scope, with Scope 3 built up from real product footprints and traced orders instead of a factor applied to spend. - [Traceability](https://greenstory.io/features/traceability): Traces start from a purchase order and every trading partner confirms their own link, so the chain is built from what suppliers attest to rather than what a brand assumes. - [Digital Product Passports](https://greenstory.io/features/digital-product-passports): Digital Product Passports designed visually in your own brand and generated from the traced chain and product footprint behind them, ready for ESPR in 2027. - [Ecoscore](https://greenstory.io/features/ecoscore): Compute your Coût Environnemental on the Ecobalyse method, publish it to the Ecobalyse system by API, and stay compliant with the requirement in force since 1 October 2026, with the same figure on your product pages and passports. - [Compliance](https://greenstory.io/features/compliance): Compliance readiness framework by framework (on track, needs attention or at risk) with the missing evidence named, supplier questionnaires answered once, and audits closed against proof. - [SBTi targets](https://greenstory.io/features/sbti-targets): Absolute or intensity-based reduction targets by scope, set against a baseline built from primary data, tracked quarterly against the pathway with a CSO on the account. - [Reporting](https://greenstory.io/features/reporting): Reports by product line, supplier, material, facility and scope, cut from one verified dataset and aligned to GHG Protocol, ISO and PEF, with every figure openable back to its document. - [Eco-contributions & offsetting](https://greenstory.io/features/eco-contributions): Third-party verified offsetting and insetting projects (Verra, Gold Standard, RECs and iRECs), curated to a preset portfolio, sized from each product's own LCA, with retirement tracked. ## Who it is for - [Material innovators](https://greenstory.io/solutions/material-innovators): Help brands choose your innovative material with credible footprint data, expert-reviewed LCAs and clear comparisons against conventional alternatives. - [Fashion brands](https://greenstory.io/solutions/brands): Product footprints, supply chain traceability, digital product passports and compliance reports for every style, built within your supply chain and signed off by LCA specialists. - [Manufacturers and mills](https://greenstory.io/solutions/manufacturers): Product LCAs, facility data and digital product passports for mills and garment makers, built once within your operations and shared with every brand you supply. - [Workwear and promotional apparel](https://greenstory.io/solutions/workwear-and-promotional-apparel): Product-level footprints, enriched product data and digital product passports for whole workwear and promotional apparel catalogues, built within your supply chain. ## How the data is built - [Data assurance: a global data network, and forensic data quality](https://greenstory.io/data): We start at the source, not the summary. A unique database of supply chains across 35+ manufacturing countries, 6,000+ proprietary data points, validated on site by experts, and outputs native to ISO, PEF and GHG Protocol. - [Data hierarchy](https://greenstory.io/data/hierarchy): Four ranked source tiers, in a declared order of preference: your own primary data, our proprietary datasets built from supplier visits, established third-party databases, then peer-reviewed literature, with the rank carried on the result. - [Collection](https://greenstory.io/data/collection): Every value we collect is anchored to a purchase order, attached to the document it came from, and graded on the strength of that evidence before it reaches a calculation. Missing inputs are named and graded. - [Validation](https://greenstory.io/data/validation): Five review gates before anything becomes publishable: automated plausibility, evidence review, on-site or online supplier verification, technical interpretation by an LCA specialist, and a sign-off that can be refused. - [Quality assurance](https://greenstory.io/data/quality-assurance): Method versions, automatic re-runs when a factor is superseded, visible restatements, and an audit trail that runs from any published number back to the document and the reviewer behind it. ## Learn - [Learn: plain explanations of product LCA, carbon and compliance](https://greenstory.io/learn): Long-form explainers for fashion and textile teams: what a product LCA measures, what a system boundary is, and what any of it asks of you. Written by the people who do the work, with our own sessions and papers alongside. - [LCA 101: what a product life-cycle assessment actually measures](https://greenstory.io/learn/lca-101): A plain explanation of product LCA for fashion and textiles: functional unit, system boundary, cradle-to-gate versus cradle-to-grave, where the numbers come from, and what data you will need before you start. - [DPP 101: what a Digital Product Passport is, and what ESPR requires](https://greenstory.io/learn/dpp-101): A plain explanation of Digital Product Passports for textiles: what goes in one, who the ESPR obliges and when, how a passport differs from a label or a QR code, and what a brand should be doing in 2026. - [Scope 3 for a fashion brand: what it covers and how to measure it](https://greenstory.io/learn/scope-3): Scope 1, 2 and 3 explained for apparel and textiles: what sits in each, why purchased goods and services dominates a fashion footprint, and why a spend-based Scope 3 estimate cannot support a reduction target. - [The Coût Environnemental explained: France’s environmental cost score](https://greenstory.io/learn/cout-environnemental): France’s environmental cost display for textiles: how the score is computed on the Ecobalyse method, which product inputs actually move it, what the rules in force since 1 October 2026 require, and what to prepare. - [Green claims: what you can say, and what has to be behind it](https://greenstory.io/learn/green-claims): Environmental claims for fashion and textiles: the EU Green Claims and Empowering Consumers directives, the UK CMA Green Claims Code, which words are now effectively unusable, and the evidence a claim needs to survive. - [Traceability tiers explained: what tier 1 to tier 4 actually means](https://greenstory.io/learn/traceability-tiers): Supply chain tiers 1 to 4 for apparel and textiles in plain terms: what sits at each tier, why a supplier list is not a traced chain, how a trace is built from purchase orders, and what to do about gaps. - [Emission factors explained: where a carbon number actually comes from](https://greenstory.io/learn/emission-factors): What an emission factor is, how primary and secondary data differ, why the same process can carry very different factors, and what happens to a published footprint when a factor or method is revised. - [SBTi 101: science-based targets, base years and what to prepare](https://greenstory.io/learn/sbti-101): Science-based targets explained for fashion and textiles: near-term and net-zero targets, choosing a base year, what validation checks, and why a spend-based inventory cannot support a submission. - [Glossary: the sustainability terms fashion and textile teams meet](https://greenstory.io/learn/glossary): Plain definitions of the terms that turn up in retailer questionnaires and regulation: functional unit, cradle-to-gate, PCF, PEF, EPD, FLAG, primary data, allocation, tiers, emission factors and more. ## Regulation and answers - [FAQ: straight answers on data, standards and compliance](https://greenstory.io/faq): Straight answers about Green Story: where the emission factors come from, how supplier data is verified, which standards the outputs conform to, what the platform does, and what an engagement actually involves. - [Regulatory readiness: one dataset, every framework you report into](https://greenstory.io/regulation): The compliance dates are already fixed. What is still open is whether your figures will be accepted when they arrive. One traced dataset, reported into every framework that asks, with the standards it is built to named. - [Standards & frameworks: what our numbers are built to](https://greenstory.io/regulation/standards): The life-cycle, greenhouse gas, passport and traceability standards Green Story's outputs are modelled to, the two accreditations Green Story itself holds, and which capability produces the evidence for each. ## Clients and case studies - [Clients: 200+ companies across 35+ countries](https://greenstory.io/clients): 200+ companies across 35+ countries: the brands, retailers and manufacturers publishing verified impact data with Green Story, and the partnerships behind it. - [Case studies: the work, what it found, what changed](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories): Five case studies in depth, and ten more customer stories from our own blog: what the work involved, what it found, and what changed as a result. - [Pact: Pact leverages quantitative sustainability data to drive consumer loyalty and 4x growth](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/pact): A transparent, simplified approach to impact data across the range, and a named quote from their Chief Innovation Officer. - [PANGAIA: PANGAIA communicates the impact of their green credentials](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/pangaia): A live impact counter, per-product widgets and an offsetting portfolio, behind a materials-innovation brand. - [Vitamin A Swim: Vitamin A enhances brand transparency with Green Story](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/vitamin-a): Swimwear built from a bespoke recycled nylon, and the LCA that turned it into their Sexy Stats widget. - [Ungalli: Transforming plastic into positive impact](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/ungalli): An interactive counter customers can play with, driving conversion on recycled-PET apparel. - [Stanley/Stella: Stanley/Stella launches product-level impact data and Digital Product Passports for the Iconics collection](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/stanley-stella): Primary data from 23 facilities including 14 factory visits in Bangladesh, behind product-level footprints for the core collection. - [Sulochana Mills: How Sulochana Mills is using scalable LCAs to reach Net Zero by 2027](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/sulochana-mills): India's largest mélange yarn manufacturer, cradle-to-gate across 11 mapped facilities, and a Net Zero by 2027 commitment out of it. - [Sapphire Mills: Measuring environmental impact across Sapphire's product line](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/sapphire-mills): LCAs at scale across the product line, presented through PEF, EPD and ISO 14047. - [Sapphire Mills: How Sapphire Mills launched Digital Product Passports at Kingpins New York](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/sapphire-mills-dpp): The dyeing and weaving arm of Sapphire Group taking DPPs onto a trade show floor. - [AGI Denim: How AGI Denim boosted customer interaction at Kingpins with Digital Product Passports](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/agi-denim): LCAs for 21 products, each with its own supply chain, turned into QR-accessible passports for B2B buyers. - [alphabroder: How alphabroder achieved accurate emission offsets across 111 products](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/alphabroder): Baselines and enriched product data across 111 products for a major American imprintable apparel supplier. - [Earthletica: How Earthletica uses impact widgets to showcase transparency and drive sustainable choices](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/earthletica): Sustainable activewear, with impact widgets placed along the buyer's journey rather than on one page. - [Leo Workwear: How Leo Workwear uses verified data to showcase sustainability](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/leo-workwear): Forty years of UK high-visibility workwear, and an EcoViz range whose claims had to survive third-party reporting. - [Shobikaa Impex: Validating sustainability efforts at Shobikaa Impex](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/shobikaa-impex): A leading Indian recycled-yarn manufacturer putting numbers behind claims it was already making. - [Swannies Golf: Swannies' commitment to offsetting environmental impact](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/swannies): Over 3 million water bottles recycled into product, and the offsetting programme alongside it. - [BAYO: How BAYO offset 10,930 kg of CO₂ and boosted local sustainability in 12 months](https://greenstory.io/clients/stories/bayo): A Filipino brand championing local manufacturing, with twelve months of offsetting behind the figure. ## Company - [About: the intelligence layer for global fashion](https://greenstory.io/about): We turn scattered product and supply-chain data into infrastructure brands and suppliers can decide on: an AI-first platform, and named experts led by a published chief scientist. Founded 2015, Utrecht, 200+ companies in 35+ countries. - [Team and advisory group: the people behind the method](https://greenstory.io/about/team): The four people who run Green Story, the published expert behind its method, and the six-person advisory group whose backgrounds were built in fibre, manufacturing, circularity and development finance. - [Publications: two decades of peer-reviewed sustainability science](https://greenstory.io/about/publications): Green Story's chief sustainability officer has 253 peer-reviewed works on textile sustainability, cited 4,550 times, with an h-index of 36 across Springer, Woodhead, CRC Press and Elsevier. - [Start here: tell us where you are going](https://greenstory.io/start): Sustainability work looks different for everyone who does it. Tell us who you are and what you are working towards, and we will walk you through how it is done. - [Book a demo](https://greenstory.io/book-a-demo): Talk to the team about your products, your suppliers and what you are being asked to report. ## Optional - [Resources: guides, recorded sessions and live tools](https://greenstory.io/resources): Sustainability guides, recorded sessions and live tools for fashion and textile brands. Tell us what you are working on and we will point you at the right ones. - [Sustainability guides for fashion and textile brands](https://greenstory.io/resources/sustainability-guides): Written guides on sustainable fabrics and next-gen fibres, green marketing, greenwashing, LCA methodology and the regulation landscape across Europe and North America. - [Recorded sessions on sustainability in fashion](https://greenstory.io/resources/webinars): Recorded panels and fireside chats with Dr Kannan Muthu, Verra, Textile Exchange, the UK Competition and Markets Authority and the brands themselves. Every session dated.