New ISEAL Innovations Fund projects explore ambitious solutions to sustainability challenges
The ISEAL Innovations Fund supports ISEAL members to join forces in exploring new, ambitious solutions to key sustainability challenges. Eight new projects are being supported by the Fund to address barriers to innovation or to build on learning from previous projects.
Credibility Principles help businesses identify reliable partners to meet sustainability demands
As the world’s sustainability challenges intensify, the demands placed on business have never been greater – from developing science-based net-zero strategies, to aligning with the...
Tea production in Assam and West Bengal: Are stakeholders ready to advance on living wages for workers?
The concept of living wages is based on the fundamental principle that workers should earn sufficiently to afford a decent standard of living for themselves...
What claims can companies make about their contributions to landscape performance outcomes?
With increasing investment being made in landscape and jurisdictional level action, and more needed to address the critical sustainability challenges we face globally, it is...
ISEAL opens consultation on credible living wage claims guidance
ISEAL has launched a six-week public consultation seeking input into its draft guidance on credible claims in the living wage space.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 strategic...
ISEAL opens invitation to its expert-led online training courses
Building on last year’s successful suite of training courses, we have launched an updated series covering assurance, and monitoring and evaluation for sustainability systems. The...
ISEAL publishes 2022 annual review
Last year was especially significant for ISEAL, as we celebrated 20 years of leading the way on credible practices for sustainability systems. Much progress has...
Delivering sustainability assurance through effective standards and accredited conformity assessment
Collaboration to promote sustainability assurance through standards and accredited conformity assessment. ISEAL in collaboration with the International Accreditation Forum (IAF), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)...
Global Organic Textile Standard joins as an ISEAL Community Member
ISEAL is delighted to announce that the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) has recently been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. We are pleased to...
Action learning workshop: evidence in living income programmes
Last month, the Living Income Community of Practice, with Living Income Thematic Group of Cote d’Ivoire and IDH, brought together experts from the NGO, government...
Remedying human rights abuses: a positive role for sustainability systems
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. The aim of remediation is to redress any human rights harms and to ensure that such harms do not recur.
Building trust and transparency in supply chains
As the world’s sustainability challenges intensify, the demands placed on business have never been greater – from developing science-based net-zero strategies, to aligning with the...
The importance of innovation in sustainability systems
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 with many organisations in this time, sustainability systems had to consider how they adapt their business to remote ways of working.
Have your say: ISEAL Code of Good Practice consultation on the second draft
Help shape more effective solutions to sustainability challenges by joining the consultation on the second draft of our Code of Good Practice. Our Codes of...
Living wage commitments: how are leading companies progressing?
New ISEAL research shares insights from 14 global companies on the actions they are taking to ensure workers receive a living wage, the challenges they...
Collaboration is key to deliver on nature and biodiversity goals
The Global Biodiversity Framework, coming out of the CBD COP15 in December last year, has energised actions and commitments to scale up conservation and nature...
Ensuring reliable sustainability claims for EU consumers: an open letter to the European Commission
There is a strong need for a regulatory approach that ensures the substantiation of sustainability claims, but it’s key that this legal framework allows for...
Living income and gender: adopting gender transformative approaches to improve livelihoods
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...
