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EXPLORE THE FRAMEWORK

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PLANET. PEOPLE. PADDOCK.

PLANET. PEOPLE. PADDOCK. is the Australian cotton industry’s framework to achieve its vision of being a global leader in sustainable cotton production. It guides work to: 

  • identify the environmental, social and economic topics assessed as being most important to industry and its stakeholders
  • coordinate a whole-of-industry strategy to manage these topics
  • engage with stakeholders on actions and progress.

PLANET. PEOPLE. PADDOCK. is not a compulsory standard or a brand. It is a framework that recognises sustainability is an integral part of doing business, and provides a path for the entire industry to benefit from improving sustainability performance.

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Priority Topics

The PLANET. PEOPLE. PADDOCK. Framework sets out targeted outcomes for priority topics across three key pillars:

  • Environmental (PLANET);
  • Social (PEOPLE); and
  • Economic (PADDOCK).

The priority topics align with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Find out more about the priority topics, our goals and pathways to achieving the targeted outcomes.

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REPORTING

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Sustainability Reporting

The Australian cotton industry, the first in Australian agriculture to independently assess its environmental impact in 1991, has been working to improve its sustainability ever since. A sustainability update is released annually to describe risks and opportunities, strategy, performance and governance. An Excel data pack is published with each annual update to transparently provide links to data sources, explanations of methodologies, and assumptions for all data.

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NEWS

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Through the cotton industry’s Sustainability Working Group, CRDC and Cotton Australia are working to standardise sustainability reporting across the cotton industry. 

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In The Cotton Bush

Growers at a CottonInfo carbon and biodiversity pilot workshop in the Macquarie have recommended that “these are topics we can no longer ignore – all growers should attend”.

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Improvements start with the soil

Published: 1 Mar 2025

A healthy soil is productive, sustainable and resilient to the impacts of farm management practices and changing climatic conditions. It also stores and cycles carbon.

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