What carbon data do EU brands ask leather exporters in Kanpur, Agra and Ambur for?
Energy and fuel use per square foot of leather or per pair of shoes, chemical use, and the share of hides from tanneries you control. Leather is not a CBAM good, but brands counting Scope 3 and audit schemes such as the Leather Working Group ask for these figures.
Tanneries
- Boiler fuel and electricity per square foot of finished leather.
- Chemicals used per tonne of hides, from purchase records.
- Effluent sent to the common treatment plant, as Scope 3 waste.
Footwear units
- Electricity and generator diesel per pair, allocated by pairs or by labour minutes.
- Leather and synthetic material per pair, with supplier figures where available.
- Soles and components bought in, with their weights.
What auditors check
Bills and stock records that match the totals, a stated allocation basis, and the same method each year so reductions can be shown.
What Senseible does here
Senseible reads the energy invoices behind the making stage into a fingerprinted Scope 1 and 2 record, and keeps material invoices on the Scope 3 trail. Material factors come from your supplier or a named database and are labelled with their source, so the product figure can be traced line by line.
Sources: GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard, GHG Protocol Corporate Standard
Last reviewed 2026-10-21.