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ISEAL is pleased to announce that Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program has been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. We look forward to them…
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The world won’t meet its sustainability goals without addressing gender issues – and sustainability standards and similar systems have an important…
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ISEAL is looking for a new Chair to steer its Board of Directors. The Board Chair is a great role for someone with a strong commitment to ISEAL’s…
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ISEAL is pleased to announce that 4C Services GmbH has been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. As our first member with a certification scheme…
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ISEAL is pleased to announce the release of a new joint position paper, which will help companies navigate monitoring and verification of landscape…
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Gender equality isn’t just important in its own right. It’s also key to unlocking other impacts that sustainability standards and similar systems are…
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Taking sustainability seriously is no longer a nice to have for companies but a must.  The EU’s legislative projects on sustainability are…
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New guidance from ISEAL sets out how companies and sustainability systems can credibly communicate about their work on living wages. As corporate…
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If your company touches deforestation-risk commodities in Europe, then the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) should be top of your mind. This…
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The only way to solve the sustainability challenges that we face today, such as climate change, is through collaboration, collective action and…
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The world won’t meet its sustainability goals without addressing gender issues – and sustainability standards and similar systems have an important…
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The ISEAL Innovations Fund supports ISEAL members to join forces in exploring new, ambitious solutions to key sustainability challenges. Eight new…
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As the world’s sustainability challenges intensify, the demands placed on business have never been greater – from developing science-based net-zero…
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The concept of living wages is based on the fundamental principle that workers should earn sufficiently to afford a decent standard of…
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With increasing investment being made in landscape and jurisdictional level action, and more needed to address the critical sustainability challenges…
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ISEAL has launched a six-week public consultation seeking input into its draft guidance on credible claims in the living wage space. One of ISEAL’s…
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Building on last year’s successful suite of training courses, we have launched an updated series covering assurance, and monitoring and evaluation…
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Last year was especially significant for ISEAL, as we celebrated 20 years of leading the way on credible practices for sustainability systems. Much…
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Collaboration to promote sustainability assurance through standards and accredited conformity assessment. ISEAL in collaboration with the…
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ISEAL is delighted to announce that the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) has recently been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. We are…
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Last month, the Living Income Community of Practice, with Living Income Thematic Group of Cote d’Ivoire and IDH, brought together experts from the…
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A core tenet of the international human rights system is that when people’s rights are harmed or abused, there must be access to effective remedies.…
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As the world’s sustainability challenges intensify, the demands placed on business have never been greater – from developing science-based net-zero…
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By mid-2020 it had become obvious that the restrictions limiting movement across the globe in response to the covid-19 pandemic were not fleeting. As…
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Help shape more effective solutions to sustainability challenges by joining the consultation on the second draft of our Code of Good Practice. Our…
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New ISEAL research shares insights from 14 global companies on the actions they are taking to ensure workers receive a living wage, the challenges…
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The Global Biodiversity Framework, coming out of the CBD COP15 in December last year, has energised actions and commitments to scale up conservation…
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Our Technical Committee provides technical oversight to the development and maintenance of our credibility tools, in particular our Credibility…
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There is a strong need for a regulatory approach that ensures the substantiation of sustainability claims, but it’s key that this legal framework…
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The concept of ‘Living Income’ has grown in popularity as a way to improve livelihoods for smallholders. It goes a step beyond traditional notions of…
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