{"id":11591,"date":"2025-04-15T11:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/environmental-footprint-cotance-abandons-technical-secretary-of-the-category-rules-pefcr\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:40:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:40:22","slug":"environmental-footprint-cotance-abandons-technical-secretary-of-the-category-rules-pefcr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/environmental-footprint-cotance-abandons-technical-secretary-of-the-category-rules-pefcr\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Footprint: COTANCE abandons Technical Secretary of the Category Rules (PEFCR)"},"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-1iosck3lk0\"><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">On April 9, COTANCE officially announced its withdrawal from the Technical Secretariat (TS) for the definition of the Category Rules on the Environmental Footprint of Apparel and Footwear Products (PEFCR). A decision, that of the European tanning federation, motivated by the fact that the rules the table is developing to calculate the carbon footprint do not take into account the durability parameters of natural materials and end up favoring synthetics.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure class=\"image _fit-frame-height-to-content _right\" data-tap-fullscreen=\"\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ioscmep10\">\n<div doc-image=\"image\" doc-link=\"hyperlink\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/124973-124970.png'); display: block; height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 125%; background-position: 50% 50%;\"><\/div><figcaption doc-editable=\"caption\">Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1iosck3mf0\">Despite months of engagement with the TS \u2014presenting fact-based arguments, proposing solutions, and forming a global coalition of natural material stakeholders\u2014COTANCE regrets that no revision was permitted to the default durability values adopted in the Apparel &amp; Footwear PEFCR. They disproportionately impact slow-fashion products made with natural materials\u2014such as leather, wool, and cotton\u2014ultimately encouraging brands to deselect them in favour of less sustainable alternatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ioscu1up0\">The COTANCE Board has therefore decided to disengage the European leather industry from the A&amp;F PEFCR.<span style=\"white-space: pre;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ioscu1v30\">\u201cWe joined this process in good faith to build a fair and science-based environmental framework for fashion \u2013 explains Gustavo Gonzalez-Quijano, Secretary-General of COTANCE -. Instead, we\u2019ve witnessed a system that punishes durable, natural materials like leather\u2014exactly the kind of products the circular economy should be encouraging. We cannot stand behind a methodology that promotes fast fashion over long-lasting quality. That said, we remain committed to dialogue and hope to convince the European Commission to review this aspect in the forthcoming revision of the PEFCR.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text body\" doc-editable=\"text\" data-component-id=\"doc-1ioscu1vb0\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Values being developed for clothing and footwear do not take into account the durability of leather and end up favoring synthetics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11591","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\/11591","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=11591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsutoriastudio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}