ISEAL welcomes the Commission's Proposal for a Directive as regards empowering consumers for the green transition through better protection against unfair practices and better information. We share the objective that sustainability or green claims in the EU marketplace should be clear, relevant, and substantiated to enable consumers to make more informed and sustainable purchasing decisions.

In response to the EU proposal for a Green Claims Directive, this statement intends to go further in establishing robust credibility criteria, by promoting multistakeholder participation, and supporting clear pre-approval and verification processes for sustainability schemes. 

This resource represents ISEAL’s submission to Science Based Target’s Initiative’s Corporate Net-Zero Standard v2.0 draft consultation. The submission draws on ISEAL’s thought leadership in defining credible practices for sustainability systems, as well as input from ISEAL community members working to decarbonise industry in their respective sectors.

ISEAL has responded to the European Commission’s public consultation on the EU Nature Credits Roadmap.ISEAL welcomes the EU’s efforts to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by mobilising private finance toward measurable and transparent outcomes. We encourage the recognition of ISEAL’s Credibility tools as a foundation for the nature credits roadmap. 

ISEAL responded to the European Commission's open call for evidence for "input on evidence requirements, due diligence practices, documentation, and SME support to ensure the future guidelines are clear, consistent and proportionate."ISEAL states our support for the Regulation and highlighted the role that credible multi-stakeholder sustainability systems can play in supporting effective due implementation. 

ISEAL has contributed to the UK’s Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) consultation. The consultation sought views on the exposure draft UK SRS, which are based on IFRS S1 General Requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information and IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures. 

This checklist distils key steps in the guidance for setting up and implementing a sustainability benchmarking exercise or programme.

Catch up on this webinar from 10 April 2025 where we launched the public consultation for the

Please note: This consultation is closed. The final version of the revised Sustainability Claims Good Practice Guide v2 (2025) can be accessed here. ISEAL has revised its Sustainability Claims Good Practice Guide to improve clarity and reflect the changing context in which sustainability systems now operate.Below are two resources to support our public consultation on the revised Sustainability Claims Good Practice Guide:

Going further in establishing robust credibility criteria, promoting multistakeholder participation, and supporting clear pre-approval and verification processes for sustainability schemes. This paper reiterates our longstanding support for the Commission’s efforts to introduce more stringent regulations to tackle greenwashing, enabling consumers to make informed purchasing decisions. We would also like to share our views on the proposal and suggest some amendments to make it even more effective.

This guidance document offers suggestions as input for consideration for the recent EUDR guidelines on the use of certification. ISEAL has built a broad-based consensus around what constitutes credible operating practices for sustainability certification schemes. Our Code of Good Practice captures this consensus in a publicly available normative document against which all ISEAL Code compliant members have been evaluated.

Please use this form to submit comments and suggestions on particular sections of the revised guide for benchmarking sustainability systems.  Completed forms should be emailed to Maira Devisscher, Innovations Manager – maira@isealalliance.org by 15 December 2024.  

Please use this form to submit comments and suggestions on sections of the revised ISEAL Sustainability Claims Good Practice Guide. 

The latest version of ISEAL's Training and Events Terms & Conditions.

ISEAL has been analysing the EUDR text, relevant guidance, and the latest version of the FAQs. Based on this review, in January, ISEAL shared a list of unanswered questions, including many raised by Community Members, with the European Commission in the hopes of their clarification in the next iteration of the FAQs. ISEAL expressed again our willingness to collaborate with the Commission on EUDR implementation over the course of the year to ensure credible sustainability systems are rightly considered and leveraged as a support to companies.

ISEAL可信度原则2版 2021 ISEAL Credibility Principles V2 2021 - Chinese 

《ISEAL可持续体系良好实践规范》（简称《ISEAL规范》）提供了一个全球公认的框架，定义了有效且可信的自愿性可持续标准（voluntary sustainability standards, VSS）与相关可持续体系（sustainability systems）的实践要求，旨在为可持续体系的制定、审验、绿色声明管理、监测评价和其它方面提供良好实践指南，确保可持续体系的科学性、透明性和有效性。《ISEAL规范》将作为公共参考资源，帮助企业、团体标准制定者、和相关机构更好地理解和应用可持续体系，推动可持续体系的发展。

The representatives of IAF, ISEAL, UNDP and the Conformity Assessment Body Associations (IIOC, IQNET and TIC Council) have signed a joint statement about the role of standards and accredited conformity assessment on sustainability assurance. This collaborative effort aims to address urgent sustainability challenges by emphasising the vital role of consensus-based standards and accredited conformity assessment in driving positive impact.

A document describing the key findings from Training Needs and Landscape  Assessment of Shrimp Sector in East Java, Indonesia, as part of the Innovations Fund project Integration of Seafood Certification and Jurisdictional Assurance Models, supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

A short paper describing the key learnings from ResponsibleSteel's Recognition Process. 

This report presents the findings and recommendations from the Blueprint Project. Blueprint describes the sustainability status of municipalities with a combination of high-precision visual classification of land cover types, and interviews with a representative sample of local stakeholders to reflect the economic, social, and environmental reality on the ground. It illustrates sustainability challenges and flags opportunities from the perspective of the inhabitants of a territory.

This document reports on the pilot phase of the Landscape Assessment Framework in the context of the Sustainable Cocoa Landscapes project in San Martin, Peru. The social indicators that have been proposed by Max Havelaar / Flocert based on the prioritized social issues for the landscapes (see documents "social study of the landscapes" and "social issues in the Mariscal Caceres landscape") have been applied as a test in the landscape. The process followed for this pilot phase is summarized in paragraph 2, and the process of validation of the indicators is presented in paragraph 3.

This series of collective position papers (a list of the supporting organisations can be found on the back-page of each paper) aim to provide companies and the organisations that support them with accessible and consistent guidance for effective investment and action in landscapes and jurisdictions. The series provides a common baseline set of expectations on which the practitioner community is building more detailed guidance and tools.

On Friday, 7th November 2025, we co-hosted the Landscape Practitioner Network in-person workshop in Jakarta alongside LTKL. This workshop aimed to strengthen collaboration among landscape practitioners by sharing experiences, exchanging learning, and exploring practical solutions to systemic challenges, such as deforestation, tenure, and resilient livelihoods, through landscape and jurisdictional approaches.

The ISEAL Innovations Fund and Programme was launched in 2016 to create an enabling environment for innovation, new ideas and strategies to scale the impact, effectiveness, efficiency and inclusiveness of sustainability systems. This learning brief captures some of the key early lessons learned so far.