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The concept of sustainable development has been growing in importance going back to the 1987 release of the report "Our Common Future" (also known as the Bruntland Report), by the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development.
At that time, the industrial world was not paying much attention to this novel concept, and the main drivers guiding the development of the global industrial world continued to be in line with the past: productivity, efficiency, minimization of costs.
Since then, determining drivers of change have grown in importance and have increasingly influenced the strategic choices of globalized production systems: rapid legislative evolution in some parts of the world, growth in importance of international NGOs focused on Environmental protection and Social compliance, and growth of the speed of information flows to and from consumers.
Some industrial sectors are acting more rapidly than others: Food and beverage, Automotive, Design and Fashion to name a few. Corporations and brands can no longer run the risk of being found guilty of non-sustainable practices along their supply chains.
The leather industry, as key supplier of at least three of these sectors, is being asked to rapidly evolve and develop strategies and techniques to face the new sets of requirements developed by its customers. These involve: Respect of Human Rights, Health & Safety on the workplace, Environmental protection, Fair trade and operating practices, Consumer safety, Chemical management, traceability of raw materials and animal welfare.
This proliferation of requirements along with the inherent complexity linked with proper Global control measures are creating a potential for increased costs in the whole leather supply chain and a parallel drop in effectiveness of the proposed strategies.
In this context, the lecture will propose and share an innovative outlook on the entire subject at hand and provide a number of viewpoints for responsible supply chain management by means of new operational tools and innovative models of business relationships in the global leather supply chain. |
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Sustainability in the leather value chain : global overview, regional and sectoral peculiarities in JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN LEATHER CHEMISTS ASSOCIATION (JALCA), Vol. CXII, N° 9 (09/2017)
