Shreyaskar Chaudhary, MD, Pratibha Syntex Ltd., India’s leading apparel export company which is also known for various sustainable initiatives, has been conferred with Textile Exchange’s ‘Ryan Young Climate+ Award’ in the ‘Climate Leader’ category.
The award was given recently during the Textile Exchange’s 20 Years’ celebration event held at Flying W Ranch.
The award is a recognition of Shreyaskar’s consistent efforts toward sustainability. Owing to his endeavours, carbon emissions have been reduced by 11 per cent and he has set a goal for the company to reduce scope 1 and scope 2 emissions by 80 per cent by 2025.
“It’s a real honour to receive the coveted ‘Ryan Young Climate+ Award’ from Textile Exchange. It emboldens our resolve further to tread this path of sustainability that we have been doing for the last 23 years. We still have a long way to go. I assure that the collective leadership of Pratibha will forever pursue whatever is necessary to be ‘More than Responsible Textiles’,” said Shreyaskar.
He further added that, “We have been working hard to create a self-reliant farming community that is engaged in climate-resilient and climate-supportive regenerative and organic agriculture. Furthering these efforts on textile processes, we have been striving to have minimum environmental impact and maximum social impact.”
