Support for new Fashion Pact from COTANCE
30/08/2019
It said it welcomed “the sustainability ambitions” the agreement sets out for the 32 signatory brands and their suppliers, including leather manufacturers. Many of the companies that signed the Fashion Pact are “good customers of European tanners”, COTANCE said.
In a statement on August 30, COTANCE said: “The European leather industry shares the aims expressed in the seven-page Fashion Pact and is committed to contributing to these objectives.”
It went on to say that COTANCE has been “a pioneer in sustainability initiatives for the leather industry”, developing tools that can help leather manufacturers identify and deliver best practice in social responsibility and environmental performance.
“European tanners are frontrunners in developing product category rules for the environmental footprint of leather,” COTANCE said, “for social and environmental reporting and for health and safety in workplaces.” It pointed out that the work it has done in this area has open standards and is available to tanners worldwide.
Image shows the chief executive of luxury group Kering, François-Henri Pinault (left), presenting the Fashion Pact to the president of France, Emmanuel Macron.
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