The Trust Protocol is aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, recognized by Textile Exchange and Forum for the Future, and part of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, Cotton 2025 Sustainable Cotton Challenge, Cotton 2040 and Cotton Up initiatives. The program has also been recognized and published in the ITC Standards Map.
The program has also been approved as a standard for sustainable cotton bySiegelklarheit, an initiative of the German Federal Government (Partnership for Sustainable Textiles). Following a rigorous and meticulous approval process, the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol was accepted as a community member of ISEAL, only eighteen months after the program’s launch.