The context in which sustainability systems operate significantly influences the scale, depth and durability of their impacts. This is an important consideration when designing new strategies to improve sustainability performance. To provide support in this area, we have developed the following resources:

Vietnam is the world’s second largest coffee exporter, with smallholders earning relatively high incomes. This is the result of a steady development of the coffee sector over several decades. This case describes how it came about, and yields valuable lessons for living income practitioners in other contexts.

With the final trilogue on the Green Claims Directive now postponed to 23 June, ISEAL, together with ECOCERT, FTAO, IFOAM Organics Europe, and TIC Council, has issued a joint statement urging EU policymakers to preserve the ambition and integrity of this vital legislation.

This position paper sets expectations for how companies can support effective monitoring and verification of landscape actions and performance outcomes. Companies that want to understand, manage, and communicate about the results of their investments in a landscape need good information about what is happening. By investing in monitoring of landscape actions and performance outcomes, companies can access the data they need to make credible claims.

Landscape and jurisdictional approaches can address critical sustainability issues holistically and at scale. For companies, landscape and jurisdictional action can complement supply-chain action to help ensure future sourcing security and create lasting impact beyond individual supply chains.

The Empowering Consumers Directive, Directive (EU) 2024/825, (ECD) marks a significant development in EU consumer and sustainability policy, aiming to enhance the credibility of environmental claims and strengthen consumer protection against greenwashing. Among its key innovations, the Directive sets requirements for how sustainability labels are used in the EU market, specifically restricting their use unless backed by credible certification schemes or developed by public authorities.
 

For an overview of clause and glossary changes between v1.0 and v1.1 of the ISEAL Code of Good Practice for Sustainability Systems, see the excel file or word document below. 

Use this template to complete your Compliance Checklist for the ISEAL Assurance Code of Good Practice Version 2.0

Use this template to complete your Compliance Checklist for the ISEAL Standard-Setting Code of Good Practice Version 6.0

Use this template to complete your Compliance Checklist for the ISEAL Impacts Code of Good Practice Version 2.0

Jointly commissioned by Evidensia, The Living Income Community of Practice (LICOP), and ISEAL, this report examines three in-depth case studies to examine how prominent living income policy initiatives have evolved, what motivated key actors to support or resist them, and what practitioners can draw from these experiences to apply in their own work. It also proposes an analytical framework that researchers can use to construct comparable cases.

Join this 90-minute policy-focused event with scene-setting, presentations, and a panel discussion on what is needed for effective implementation of the EmpCo and how best credible third-party certification can support this. 
 

ISEAL Board and Committee members and ISEAL staff should conduct themselves at all times in accordance with good professional judgement for the benefit of ISEAL and in such manner as to not create a conflict of interest or appearance of such conflict.

This ISEAL Guidance seeks to capture some of the core elements and good practices that are emerging as a result of this innovation.

These additional notes on the Contextualization of AWS Guideline Implementation in Indonesia is part of a set of reports from the Boosting sustainability

The power of landscape initiatives lies in aligning interests and priorities of key stakeholders, including local communities, practitioners, market actors, and local governments around collective goals, actions, and investment so that they are better able to finance and address the system conditions needed to achieve long-term sustainability impacts at a landscape scale.

Credibility-Principles_V1.2 in Chinese ISEAL 11-2020

This page contains two guidance documents for credible verification of living wages.Considerations for companies commissioning verification services

Le principal avantage des initiatives paysagères réside dans l’harmonisation des intérêts et des priorités des parties prenantes, notamment des communautés et autorités locales, des professionnels du secteur et des acteurs de marchés, autour d’objectifs, d’actions et d’investissements communs leur permettant de financer et de remplir les conditions nécessaires afin d’avoir des impacts de durabilité à long terme à l’échelle paysagère du système mis en place.

This document summarises a joint approach ASC, SFP and SFW developed for data sharing through the Integration of Seafood Certification and Jurisdictional Assurance Models project, between July 2019 - June 2022. It explores data collected at different scales, and how this data can be created, shared and used by the project partners.