The Sustainable Apparel Coalition leads the Technical Secretariat for the European Commission’s Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) project for non-leather shoes. It is one of 27 such pilots designed to evaluate diverse products from leather to pasta to batteries. It has three core objectives:
- Test the process for developing product footprint calculations
- Test different approaches to verification
- Test communication vehicles such as labelling and online and offline messaging for sharing life cycle environmental performance with consumers and other interested stakeholders