What it means for your products
Sharper numbers for the fabrics you use
The biggest improvements land exactly where fashion footprints are hardest to get right.
Cotton & plant-based fabrics
The data now follows the carbon a plant takes in as it grows and gives back later. That makes footprints for cotton, viscose and other plant-based fabrics more true to life.
Polyester & nylon
The oil-based data behind synthetic fibres was rebuilt from the ground up — including greenhouse gases from oil and gas that older data simply missed. Polyester numbers are more honest.
Dyeing & finishing
New data for cleaning the wastewater from dyeing and finishing — the most water- and chemical-heavy steps in making fabric — so the messiest part of your supply chain is counted properly.
Recycling & end-of-life
New data for recycling polyester and other plastics — including material recovered from old textiles — so recycled-content and take-back claims stand on real numbers.
3.8 vs 3.11
The jump you're making
Green Story moved straight from Ecoinvent 3.8 — where much of the industry still is — to 3.11. Here's what changes for textiles, side by side.
Before
Released 2021 · where much of the industry still is
Now in Green Story
Released 2024 · the newest data
Good to know
What you gain — and what stays
Moving to 3.11 adds the newest data without touching the models you already depend on.
Latest electricity grid emission factors
3.11 brings the most recent grid emission factors for the markets you produce in — so the energy behind every spinning, weaving and dyeing step is measured against today's grids, not a snapshot from years ago.
Your Green Story textile datasets stay
Every proprietary Green Story textile dataset you already rely on is fully included with this change. You gain the newest background data without losing any of the models built for your materials and supply chain.
The release
Ecoinvent 3.11 in numbers
Released 20 November 2024 — the newest update to the world's most-used environmental dataset.
The release in numbers
Dataset changes in v3.11, released 20 November 2024
In Green Story
Switch versions. Keep your history.
A data update used to force a hard choice: stay on old numbers, or lose the ability to compare with everything you've already published. Not anymore.
Fresher data, sharper footprints
Electricity, chemicals and transport sit behind every apparel footprint. Newer data means your numbers reflect today's supply chain, not a snapshot from years ago.
Switch versions, don't get locked in
Pick the data version for each project. Reports and product passports you've already published stay exactly as they were — while new work runs on 3.11.
Answers you can defend
Run a product on two versions side by side and see what moved. When a retailer or auditor asks which data sits behind a claim, the answer is one click.
Run your next footprint
on Ecoinvent 3.11
We'll show you what changes for your own products — and what doesn't.
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