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Jason LaChappelle

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Communications Coordinator
ISEAL Alliance

Jason is ISEAL's Communications Coordinator

Since joining ISEAL in early 2012 I have worked to improve the quality and quantity of ISEAL’s online content and external publications. As editor of our email newsletters, I coordinate the delivery of compelling articles and valuable information relating to the work of ISEAL and its members, as well as the broader sustainability standards movement. I also explore opportunities for ISEAL to communicate its work more effectively and to promote the value of sustainability standards to a larger audience. In both external and internal communications, I am responsible for ensuring that ISEAL’s work is conveyed in a clear and accessible way.

Before ISEAL...

In 2011 I spent six months as an intern with ISEAL’s policy team, researching how sustainability standards can take leading role in finding solutions to climate change. Prior to this, I graduated with a Master of Arts in Global Governance from the University of Waterloo (Canada), specialising in environmental politics. During this time I also worked for the Centre for International Governance Innovation on the institute’s African Initiative. I have a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alberta, where I focused on international development. For many years I worked with organisations supporting people with intellectual disabilities, and this remains an area of personal interest.

Ask me about:

Newsletter content, ISEAL’s online community, webinars, the latest in sustainability news, and anything you might read on our site.

I am based in:

London

Webinar: Q&A about the ISEAL Credibility Principles

9 Jul 2013
Join us for this complementary webinar on Tuesday, 9 July at 14:00BST to learn more about the ISEAL Credibility Principles, the result of a year long global consultation and launched at the ISEAL Conference by Marks & Spencer's Mike Barry. Ask your questions about what each of the principles means and how they could influence the standards movement.

Bonsucro achieves full ISEAL membership

Jason LaChappelle
5 Jun 2013
The ISEAL Secretariat is pleased to announce that Bonsucro, the first global metric standard for sugarcane, has become the newest full member of the ISEAL Alliance by achieving full compliance with ISEAL's Standard-Setting Code. The decision was approved by ISEAL's Membership Committee, which reviewed Bonsucro's performance under ISEAL's Independent Evaluation Mechanism.

Impacts and Innovation: Conference Resources

We look forward to welcoming you in London to the 2013 ISEAL Conference.

A New Era for Sustainable Business: What Standards mean to Marks & Spencer

Jason LaChappelle
30 May 2013
To kick off the ISEAL Annual Conference in London, we will be launching the ISEAL Credibility Principles with the help of Mike Barry, Marks & Spencer's Head of Sustainable Business. We ask Mike about the retailer's pioneering Plan A strategy, how the company uses sustainability standards and the potential he sees for the ISEAL Credibility Principles.

How are standards responding to the global water crisis?

Jason LaChappelle
21 May 2013
What will the world look like at the turn of the century? There are few certainties projecting that far into the future, but one thing we can be sure of is that we are entering a time of greater and greater water scarcity. Join us for a webinar on 22 May to find out how ISEAL members are working to promote responsible water use in their standards and seriously take on the global water challenge.

Direct Line to the Global Workforce: An Interview about Labor Link and the Mobile Technology Revolution

Jason LaChappelle
17 May 2013
Heather Franzese from Good World Solutions will be taking part in a session called Certification and the IT Revolution at the ISEAL Conference, where we will look at how information technology is influencing the way standards systems operate. We interviewed Heather about Labor Link, a mobile phone survey platform designed to involve workers and farmers more closely in monitoring and reporting.

ISEAL Community Day

Schedule of events for the Community Day for ISEAL members and subscribers

2013 Annual Conference Public Day Programme (Table)

Jason LaChappelle
15 May 2013
Find a simplified table of the public day conference schedule below.

Standards for the extractives sector: a sustainability renaissance? (ISEAL webinar)

25 Jun 2013
Join us on 25 June at 14:00BST for a special complementary webinar on the emergence of new sustainability initiatives in sectors such as oil and gas, mining, metals and jewellery. Efforts to address social and environmental issues in these potentially challenging sectors are taking shape and this will be an opportunity to learn about the role that standards can play. Hear from Responsible Jewellery Council, Fairtrade, Equitable Origin, and Alliance for Responsible Mining.

RSPO General Assembly approves revised principles and criteria

Jason LaChappelle
1 May 2013
More than 200 RSPO members from the seven sectors voted at the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil's Extraordinary General Assembly (EGA) on 25 April in Malaysia. The resolution on the "Adoption of Principles and Criteria for the Production of Sustainable Palm Oil (2013)" was accepted.

RFP: Dispute resolution and settlement for biomass certification schemes

The Ecole Polytechique Fédéral de Lausanne Energy Center is participating in the advisory board of a project which examines the feasibility of establishing and operating a biomass dispute settlement facility (BDSF). The EPFL Energy Center aims to map the dispute resolution needs of existing bioenergy certification schemes and their intention to use an independent dispute settlement facility or mechanism.
Application deadline: 7 Jul 2013

BCI Monitoring and Evaluation Manager

The Monitoring and Evaluation Manager is responsible to coordinate the collection, analysis, and presentation of Better Cotton indicators globally. S/he will also manage the Better Cotton verification mechanisms. The M&E Manager will report to the Director of Standards and Assurance, and work with a team of M&E officers based in-country.
Organisation: Better Cotton Initiative

IFOAM Advocacy Manager

The IFOAM Advocacy Manager – reporting to the IFOAM Executive Director - is responsible for IFOAM’s global advocacy strategy (including its campaigns, its publications and its targeting of international agriculture debates) and to implement it with the advocacy department and its volunteering ambassadors and networks. The Advocacy Manager is part of the IFOAM Management team.
Application deadline: 15 Jun 2013

IFOAM WEB DEVELOPER / Organic IT Officer

IFOAM’s staff is young, multinational and committed to the organic mission. With a variety of academic backgrounds already represented at IFOAM, IFOAM is looking to add, consolidate and integrate operational IT know-how into its core portfolio. The IT Officer works at IFOAM’s Head Office in Bonn/Germany.
Application deadline: 15 May 2013

Standards systems for aquaculture agree to work together to promote good practices

Karin Kreider
1 May 2013
ISEAL associate member Aquaculture Stewardship Council has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) and GLOBALG.A.P., promising to work together to achieve greater efficiencies that will benefit all stakeholders.

Not all standards are created equal

Paddy Doherty
25 Feb 2013
The sustainability standards movement is still relatively young, so it is not surprising that different models of standards systems have emerged as people experiment with how to get the most out of this market-based tool.

RSPO making strides in India, the world's largest consumer of palm oil

Karin Kreider
21 Feb 2013
ISEAL associate member Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is reporting impressive gains in India thanks to uptake of the standard by multinationals active in the country as well as their domestic counterparts.

RSB Services "Business Development Project Leader" (USA and Canada)

The RSB Services Foundation is seeking assistance for the expansion of new business in the North American market. This requires cultivating relationships at the most senior levels with prospects at each point in the biofuels supply chain. This project leader will be accountable to the Regional Director for the Americas.

Effective Assurance in light of Pakistan Fire

Karin Kreider
14 Dec 2012
The Karachi factory fire is a sobering reminder that voluntary standards and certification alone are not enough to ensure the rights and safety of workers. The NGO-led and mission driven certification organizations have always insisted that progress requires the commitment and actions of corporations, governments, unions and all of us.

New Directions for the Organic Movement

Paddy Doherty
29 Nov 2012
Many of us experience a kind of epiphany when we turn 40; a realisation that life is short and the things we used to think were so important are perhaps not quite so anymore. This has been no different for the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM) at its 40th birthday. However, instead of buying a sports car or going on a trek through Nepal, IFOAM has fostered a Sustainability Camp.

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37 weeks 3 days ago
Awesome Marcus. There are some really interesting nuggets here - especially the distinction between public procurers themselves and governments and the arguments for/against specifying certification in procurement requirements. Thanks for sharing.
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