6.2 Gruppo Mastrotto has adopted an environmental policy that indicates the principles and objectives through which the commitment to use resources in an increasingly responsible way, counter global warming and promote the circularity of the tannery is materialised, in a perspective of increasing sharing of activities with its stakeholders.

These aspects also emerge from the projects included in the Sustainability Plan relating to the environment which includes, among others, two important initiatives aimed at measuring greenhouse gas emissions and their subsequent reduction: determination of the organisation’s climate footprint according to the international standard ISO 14064-1 creation of a management system to calculate and communicate the climate footprint and other relevant environmental parameters, referable to the articles produced by the company, according to the international standards ISO 14067/Systematic Approach and EPD Process.

During 2022, the following activities were carried out:

• training course on the LCA methodology (Life Cycle Assessment) aimed at company figures belonging to various functions (Environment and Safety, Quality, Research & Development, Marketing and Sales, Energy) with the aim of involving them in the overall company project and making them acquire the methodological bases of the LCA;

• initiation of the inventory analysis to carry out the organisation’s LCA, during which data were collected relating to: material consumption (skins, chemicals and packaging), distances travelled from goods bought and sold, distances travelled by employees, energy and water consumption, water discharges, atmospheric emissions and waste;

• start of the inventory analysis to carry out the LCA of the pilot articles chosen for the structuring of the management systems of the calculation of the climate footprint;

• implementation of the main procedures and operating instructions regarding the management system.