Public webinar: With the advances in the process for a new European Union Due Diligence Law on the Environment and Human Rights, there is growing debate regarding the scope of the human rights component. Given that the European Parliament debates have referenced the links between poverty and social...

There is ‘scant evidence of positive outcomes [on deforestation] for all approaches except voluntary standards systems’. This was the conclusion of researchers from Wageningen University in a recent review of the outcomes of deforestation-free commodity supply chain approaches. Voluntary standards...

Public webinar: In this second academic roundtable as part of the Evidensia-UNFSS webinar series, we focus on the contribution of voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) to key social issues. VSS specify requirements that cover a wide range of environmental and socio-economic issues. On the social...

With our new strategy, we’re aiming to increase our impact in tackling the biggest sustainability challenges of our time. With less than 10 years until the deadline for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), action on the critical sustainability issues of our time has never been more...