Welcome to this new issue of World Leather. This time, in Leather and the Circular Economy, we mark the importance of the new UNIDO guidelines for assessing the environmental footprint of leather. Discussions on this subject have run for years. Now, for the first time, with contributions from every corner of the global industry, harmony has broken out. A separate article in the technology section highlights a different guide, one that Leather Naturally has produced to help foment better water management. Other features celebrate the commitment to careful sourcing that underpins a partnership between Mulberry and British Pasture Leather, and the work on skills-sharing and confidence-building that a footwear design student, Damari Kota Diur-Kota, has carried out in Tanzania. Still on the subject of Africa, please don’t miss our Leather Leaders interview with the executive director of the African Leather and Leather Products Institute, Nicholas Mudungwe. He says countries across the continent are taking steps to build up their domestic leather and finished leather products industries.