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- ISEAL Announces New Board Chair: Rik Kutsch Lojenga
Rik Kutsch Lojenga, Executive Director of the Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT), has become the new ISEAL Board Chair, as FSC Executive Director Andre de Freitas’ term of three years is now complete. The formal handover took place in the Decembe ...
Article - Jason LaChappelle - 17 Jan 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Comparison Tool Receives a Boost
Norma Tregurtha , ISEAL's Senior Policy Manager Since June 2010, the ISEAL Alliance Secretariat has been developing a tool to support the comparison or “benchmarking” of standards systems. The aim of the Comparison Tool is to enable co ...
Article - ISEAL Alliance - 29 Jul 2011 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- What’s the fuss about Risk?
By Paddy Doherty , ISEAL Code Development Manager We’re all in the risk management game. Standard setting organisations are designed to manage social and environmental risks of the market economy. For example, in global manufacturing labour st ...
Article - ISEAL Alliance - 12 Dec 2011 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Purchases of 4C Compliant Coffee more than doubled in one year
Purchases of 4C Compliant Coffee grew significantly in coffee year 2010/11, reaching 810,291 bags (approx. 48,000 tonnes), or more than double the previous period. Since 4C Compliant Coffee was first traded four years ago, purchases have been growin ...
Article - ISEAL Alliance - 17 Nov 2011 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The ISEAL Assurance Code Consultation Opens
Consultation Period: 1 November - 31 December 2011 ISEAL is developing a new Code of Good Practice that aims to make assurance a more effective tool to support social and environmental impact. The first consultation on the draft Code of Good Pr ...
Article - ISEAL Alliance - 2 Nov 2011 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- What Makes a Standard Credible? A Clear Complaints and Appeals Process
How does a standard-setter know when a stakeholder feels that their position or point of view has not been adequately taken into account? How does that standard ensure mechanisms that allow for recourse and consideration of that position? They do so thr ...
Article - ISEAL Alliance - 7 Jul 2011 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Spotlight on IKEA: Commitments and Challenges of Responsible Procurement...
By Michelle Doust, ISEAL Communications Coordinator 2011 was deemed the International Year of Forests by the United Nations, and it was also a big year for IKEA , whose sales continued to grow despite an overall slump in the home furni ...
Article - ISEAL Alliance - 3 Nov 2011 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Fair Climate Deal for Fairtrade Farmers
Against the backdrop of increasingly unpredictable climatic conditions across the world, Fairtrade farmers are faced with challenges that threaten their livelihoods. The frequency and magnitude of hurricanes and typhoons, the quickening of desertifi ...
Article - ISEAL Alliance - 2 Nov 2011 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- What Makes a Standard Credible? Learning and Continual Improvement...
By Lara Koritzke , ISEAL's Director of Development and Communications How does a standard understand if its strategies are working? How does it know that the practices being transformed in order to reach compliance with that standard are a ...
Article - ISEAL Alliance - 2 Nov 2011 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Standards Systems Academy: Increasing Understanding and Awareness
By Karin Kreider , ISEAL Scaling Up Director In order to scale up the use of social and environmental standards around the globe there is an urgent need to increase the awareness and understanding of standards systems among key p ...
Article - ISEAL Alliance - 31 Oct 2011 - 0 comments - 1 attachment
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