The upcoming Sustainable Leather Forum in Paris, France, will include a focus on the challenges around raw hides and skins. By ILM.

The event will take place at La Maison de la Chimie on September 9, 2024, with an additional day exclusively online to extend B2B exchanges on September 10.

It will begin with an opening speech on controversies and collective mobilisations around livestock farming by Neumeister, Deputy to the Head of Social Approaches and Livestock Work Service at the Institut de l’Elevage.

This will be followed by a session on the evolution of livestock farming, traceability and deforestation, and the challenges of leather and hide trading, with speakers from the World Wildlife Fund, the International Council of Hides, Skins & Leather Traders Association and the International Trade Centre.

Other sessions during the event will focus on the future of French tanneries, the current state of environmental footprint research, CSR benchmarks for leather goods and key issues around the use of plastics.

To find out more about the event, head to slf-paris.com.