# What carbon data do EU brands ask leather exporters in Kanpur, Agra and Ambur for?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/kanpur-agra-ambur-leather-exporter-buyer-carbon-data

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.

- [Leather tannery per square foot](https://senseible.earth/answers/leather-tannery-carbon-footprint-per-square-foot)
- [Footwear allocation per pair](https://senseible.earth/answers/footwear-factory-emissions-allocation-per-pair)
- [Leather Working Group energy audit](https://senseible.earth/answers/leather-working-group-audit-energy-carbon)

Sources: [GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain (Scope 3) Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-value-chain-scope-3-standard), [GHG Protocol Corporate Standard](https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard)

Last reviewed 2026-10-21.