Credible pathways
Industry body Leather and Hide Council of America (L&HCA) has launched a new platform that it says will serve as an independent, science-based source of data for use in lifecycle assessment (LCA) exercises.
The platform will be called the Institute for Data Integrity (IDI). It will be dedicated to helping companies in the global leather supply chain collect and analyse data (from livestock production, tanning and beyond) for use in LCA studies. It will aim to establish a “global reference for leather LCAs”, and accelerate what it calls “credible decarbonisation pathways”. IDI will be registered in the US as a non-profit organisation, but will serve the industry globally, attempting to close “critical data gaps” that it says exist in current assessment methodologies for leather and other natural materials.
