The Australian cotton industry is reporting on its material sustainability topics for the five years to June 2019. One material topic is carbon emissions per bale of cotton.

Development of a land use indicator set for the Australian cotton industry to demonstrate the sustainability impacts on soil health:

In the Australian cotton industry nutrition is a significant cost with 75% of irrigated cotton respondents to the 2012-13 grower practice survey spending between $300 and $600 per hectare on nutritional inputs for the

The Australian Cotton Industry is developing a carbon (C) footprint calculator for cotton farms.

The broader focus of the projectis to look at mechanisms whereby the sustainability of Australian cotton can be determined and promoted through the textile supply chain.