The first RESP Global Meeting was held at Burberry HQ in London on the 13th and 14th of April. Two years of commitment and collaborative action to define common goals and the steps needed to achieve them, has led to concrete results for RESP and its diverse multi-stakeholder members who include leaders from the cosmetics, fashion and jewellery industries and their key stakeholders.

The RESP International Working Group on Reptile Skins (IWG-RS) held its 4th meeting on 6 and 7 of November, hosted by the Italian Corpo Forestale dello Stato (CITES Enforcement Authority) in their regional headquarters in Florence.

Topics on the agenda included traceability, production systems, animal welfare and the establishment of the RESP framework for integrating sustainability into design and product development practice.