Swedish Shoe Environmental Initiative (SSEI)

SSEI is an initiative developed by major actors in the Swedish Shoe Industry which started in June 2012. SSEI is a network currently consisting of companies/organizations from the Swedish Shoe Industry.

The first objective of SSEI is to develop a tool/index that will help the single companies to reduce the environmental and social impacts for productions of shoes. The second objective is to increase the knowledge about the environmental impacts in a life-cycle perspective for footwear at the participating companies/organizations. The footwear index that will be developed by SSEI can be used for manufacturing, purchase and in a longer term also for communication to the end consumers.