Amos Bien has been a name to reckon with in sustainable tourism for more than 25 years. He’s a New Yorker who embraced the rainforest of Costa Rica founding...
As Fairtrade Fortnight winds up, it’s worth having a look at how a small change has made a big impact on the lives of those working in the banana plantations of Peru
The Valle de...
The ISEAL Alliance is developing a Code of Good Practice for Assessing the Impacts of Social and Environmental...
Jeff Swenerton, Communications Director of renewable energy certifiers CRS offers the stark choice between a future dominated by coal or renewables
There’s no single solution to...
Following a year-long consultation, the ISEAL Board approved version 5.0 of the ISEAL Standard-Setting Code in January, coming into force immediately. The new rules strengthen a number of criteria...
People 4 Earth joins the WWF Aquaculture Dialogues, the World Fair Trade Organization and the Alliance for Water Stewardship as an associate member of the ISEAL Alliance....
The Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) and the International Organic Accreditation Service (IOAS) have today launched a pilot program that is expected to deliver greater...
UTZ CERTIFIED offers coffee, tea and cocoa certification programmes and manages traceability for certified palm oil. In September 2008, UTZ joined the ISEAL Alliance as...
International experts in impacts assessment and practitioners in standards systems have contributed more than 150 written contributions to the first formal public consultation on the upcoming...
The ISEAL Alliance is inviting comments for the revision of the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Setting Social and Environmental Standards. The second public consultation for the 2009 code...