{"id":10873,"date":"2025-03-03T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/leather-naturally-presents-the-guide-to-lca\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:31:03","slug":"leather-naturally-presents-the-guide-to-lca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/leather-naturally-presents-the-guide-to-lca\/","title":{"rendered":"Leather Naturally presents the Guide to LCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"articleWrapper _hero-content-wrapper\" id=\"top\">\n<div class=\"articleContent _hero-content-body\">\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ddala6tn0\">Leather Naturally has just published their newest resource:&nbsp;A Guide to Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) in the Leather Industry.&nbsp;\u201cWe\u2019re keen to share all the insights gained conducting our own aggregated LCA study with SPIN 360, which looked at 56 LCAs across 11 countries\u201d explain from the international organization for the promotion of sustainable leather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhiqfg10\">&nbsp;The guide outlines:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhiqfh40\">* The importance of using LCAs for making informed decisions about material and product sustainability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhiqfhc0\">* The different methodologies for LCAs and the benefits of each approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhiqfhi0\">* Where businesses can source data when conducting their own LCAs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhiqfhn0\">* The potential output of LCA studies and how that output might be used.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhiqfht0\">* Limitations &amp; challenges for businesses conducting their own LCAs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhiqfi40\">* The findings of&nbsp;Leather Naturally\u2019s aggregated LCA study&nbsp;and insights from its&nbsp;combined data submission to the Higg&nbsp;with Leather Working Group in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhiqfib0\">\u201cWe hope this guide can be used by stakeholders across the leather industry to better understand LCAs and foster more useful, scientific information about leather\u2019s environmental impacts\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhisbun0\">\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhisc6u0\">Here is the link to download the Guide<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhit1560\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leathernaturally.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LN_White_Paper_LCA_st12-1.pdf\">https:\/\/www.leathernaturally.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/LN_White_Paper_LCA_st12-1.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhiqfih0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ikhinakc0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handbook that aims to help the leather industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flash-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}