About us

ISEAL is a non-governmental organisation whose mission is to strengthen standards systems for the benefit of people and the environment. Its membership is open to all multi-stakeholder sustainability standards and accreditation bodies that demonstrate their ability to meet the ISEAL Codes of Good Practice and accompanying requirements, and commit to learning and improving.  Through membership in ISEAL, standards systems show a commitment to supporting a unified movement of sustainability standards. ISEAL also has a non-member, subscriber category to engage with governments, researchers, consultants, private sector organisations, non-profit organisations and other stakeholders with a demonstrable commitment to the ISEAL objectives.

The four goals of ISEAL Alliance are to:

·         Demonstrate and improve impacts of standards

·         Improve the effectiveness of standards

·         Define credibility for sustainability standards

·         Increase the adoption of credible sustainability standards

ISEAL is the global leader in defining and communicating what good practice looks like for sustainability standards. Through this work, ISEAL helps drive standards towards delivering more positive impact. At the heart of this is ISEAL’s set of core principles that define credibility in standards. The ISEAL Credibility Principles are the result of multi-national and multi-stakeholder consultation and define what we think is essential for a standards system to deliver positive social or environmental impact.