Sustainability News Archive
The Covid pandemic has had a profound impact on women across all dimensions of economic and social activity, finds briefing paper. From shifting…
The pandemic forced sustainability systems to adapt to the reality that on-site audits could not be performed easily – or at all. This drove many to…
What should companies do to tackle global deforestation? And how should governments regulate company action? As a lively policy debate gains momentum…
Join ISEAL and Evidensia in a webinar series where we explore ISEAL’s newly revised Credibility Principles.
The ISEAL Credibility Principles define…
June 2021 marks the ten-year anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Adoption of the Principles was a landmark moment…
From mitigating and adapting to climate change, to addressing human rights’ abuses in supply chains, to contributing to the UN Sustainable…
We often talk about system-level change to address root causes of poverty and imbalance of risk. This requires us to unite in different and creative…
Demand for increased transparency has been the topic of many conversations over the past few years. It has been highlighted by governments, in the UN…
We work to accelerate positive change by improving the impacts of ambitious sustainability systems and their partners. Read the latest annual report…
There is ‘scant evidence of positive outcomes [on deforestation] for all approaches except voluntary standards systems’.
This was the…
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…
Assurance professionals are working together to develop good practice guidance for remote auditing, with the goal of keeping supply chains…
As companies invest in scalable solutions for meeting sustainability commitments, many initiatives and standards are looking at how they can support…
As the European Union considers legislation to address supply chain deforestation later this year, we reflect on how standards and similar systems…
The launch of ISEAL’s new membership structure marks a focus on a wider range of sustainability systems and offers new and enhanced products.
We’re…
“You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” runs the old business adage. Conversely, good metrics and data can help you make better management…
The Round Table on Responsible Soy Association (RTRS) enters the ISEAL membership having met the new ISEAL Community Member Requirements.
The…
The Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) has met the new ISEAL Community Member Requirements.
They join the Round Table on…
While the concept of jurisdictional sustainability continues to gain momentum, the question of how to best monitor and credibly communicate…
ISEAL will adopt a new four-year strategy from 2021. The strategy is designed to provide a clear path for us to deliver on our vision of creating a…
ISEAL has rebranded to recognise the broadening of its membership. The refreshed brand reflects the evolution of ISEAL and marks a renewed focus on a…
The global ambition to solve sustainability challenges is growing. In response, standards have evolved and so has ISEAL: we have a new membership…
Public and private sector stakeholders are increasingly looking to voluntary standards as one of the key tools to deliver their sustainability goals…
ISEAL has produced a package of tools and guidance on the power of polygon data and how sustainability systems can collect it.
Polygon data can…
With a shift towards outcome-focused sustainability standards and measurement, ISEAL commissioned 3Keel to review different metrics for monitoring…
Our 2019 Annual Report recognises the importance of collaboration to drive change and improvement. This was demonstrated through our members work…
We are delighted to announce that our new membership structure will launch in November. The change in structure will allow us to better…
A new round of funding awarded in April supports six new projects through ‘landscape grants’. Each project will test fresh approaches to increase the…
The recently released UN 2020 Sustainable Development Goals Report makes clear that there is a long way to go before the global goals are achieved.…
MSI Integrity has published a report that investigates how effective Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) are at protecting human rights.
This is an…
Ensuring resilient livelihoods and sustained employment for vulnerable communities was already a stretch pre-Covid-19. For those communities lacking…
The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020 launched in early July finds growing food insecurity, deterioration of the natural environment, and…
At a time when living income for farmers is a key issue for governments, civil society and industry, the Living Income Community of Practice (LICOP)…
Today we find ourselves in one of the most disruptive times in modern history. Around the globe, sustainability organisations and…
ISEAL’s Credibility Principles have helped businesses, policy makers and standards developers define and identify good practice for sustainability…
Join ISEAL’s consultation on how best to support credible monitoring and communication of progress at a landscape or jurisdictional scale.
Until 15…
Sustainability standards from the mining, minerals and metals (MMM) sector are working together to increase the effectiveness, efficiency and impact…
MarinTrust, independent business to business certification programme for the marine ingredient value chain, has been accepted as a full member of…
If the UN Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved by 2030, then immediate and urgent action is needed to transform global production systems…
Everyone has the right to a living income. Yet, as we move into a new decade, there are still around 500 million smallholder farming households…
With companies exploring scalable solutions to meet their sustainability commitments in a post-2020 world, ISEAL and its partners are looking at how…
As we enter 2020, one big question is whether the European Union will bring in legislation on corporate human rights and environmental due diligence…
ISEAL recently published the final report from a three-year study that assesses the early impacts of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) on…
How can we claim a product is sustainable if the farmers producing its ingredients are not earning enough for a decent standard of living? As we…
ISEAL members and subscribers demonstrated a range of tools and innovations designed to increase the impacts of sustainability standards, during…
As sustainability professionals, we often ask ourselves what works: What works to address deforestation? What works to improve farmer incomes? What…
As companies and governments seek effective solutions to meet their sustainability goals, the importance of credible and robust benchmarking is…
The ISEAL Innovations Fund empowers standards systems to practically test their innovations, and is pleased to announce a new round of funding…
Gold Standard has met the entry-level criteria of each of the three ISEAL Codes of Good Practice – Standard-Setting, Assurance and Impacts – to…
ISEAL announces the Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) as associate member. SEG joins as an organisation whose system meets ISEAL’s entry level criteria.…