ISEAL publishes 2025 Annual Review
With the publication of ISEAL’s Annual Review 2025, we look back on a year of collaboration, innovation and progress advancing credible sustainability practices.
Whose resilience are we building?
From the approaching super El Niño to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), global supply chains are facing pressures from many directions, and those pressures are not felt equally. For a smallholder farmer experiencing repeated drought-driven crop failures, a business responding to new due diligence requirements, or a consumer confronted with...
Indigenous knowledge shaping sustainability systems
Indigenous knowledge and participation are helping shape more effective sustainability systems. Projects supported by the ISEAL Innovations Fund are working with Indigenous communities to inform approaches to mine rehabilitation, impact verification and landscape monitoring.
Introducing ISEAL’s project to unlock the value of credible data for greater sustainability impact
Supported by the Walmart Foundation, ISEAL’s new 2.5-year project will work with sustainability systems and landscape initiatives to strengthen the use and recognition of credible sustainability data. It will help meet the growing demand for trusted sustainability information from companies, investors and regulators while delivering greater value for producers and...
New guidance sets out a practical framework for credible living wage verification
Earlier this year, ISEAL and IDH published two new guidance documents to help companies and verification providers turn living wage-gap data into reliable evidence for meaningful action.
Understanding and measuring change in sustainability systems
Monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) are critical to understanding whether sustainability systems are creating the change they claim to achieve. This September, ISEAL’s ‘Monitoring, evaluation and learning essentials for sustainability systems’ training course will help participants build the practical skills needed to develop robust MEL systems.
The Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC) joins as an ISEAL Community Member
We are pleased to announce that the Concrete Sustainability Council (CSC) has been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. CSC's experience in advancing sustainability assurance and certification across the concrete value chain and its commitment to continuous improvement, will bring valuable perspectives to our growing membership community. We look forward to...
Zentera joins as an ISEAL Community Member
We are delighted to announce that Zentera Wool Company has been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. Zentera’s experience in advancing wool certification systems and its commitment to continuous improvement will bring valuable perspectives to our growing membership community. We look forward to working with Zentera to strengthen sustainability systems...
Sustainable supply chains: why compliance alone is not enough
Every day, people consume products that have stories beginning thousands of kilometres away. The coffee we drink and the clothes we wear are the end points of journeys that cross borders and pass through the hands of countless farmers and workers.
Resilient supply chains start with producers
What does resilience mean and what should it look like in an increasingly volatile world? This question was at the heart of ISEAL’s Global Sustainability Symposium in Accra on 9 June. Hosted with support from the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs, the symposium brought together participants from governments, sustainability...
Investing in resilient landscapes: reflections from London Climate Action Week
ISEAL and the Jurisdictional Action Network hosted the London Climate Action Week event ‘Investing in resilient landscapes’, bringing together companies, investors and NGOs to explore how collaboration at landscape and jurisdictional level can reduce sustainability risks, strengthen supply chain resilience and create long-term value.
Producer-owned data in practice at a Ghanaian cocoa co-operative
Small-scale producers are increasingly being asked to provide data so companies can meet growing sustainability and due diligence requirements.
A collaborative path to sustainable supply chains: learning from Ghana’s national systems
ISEAL brought together stakeholders from Ghana's cocoa and timber sectors in Accra for the partner workshop, Building Bridges for Sustainable Supply Chains, supported by the UK government's Forest Governance, Markets and Climate (FGMC) programme. The workshop explored how Ghana's national systems are evolving to meet shifting global market expectations while...
What does it take to build living income policies?
A new report explores how living income policy initiatives are built, what motivates the actors who shape them, and what living income practitioners can do to influence them.
Sustainability leaders gather in Accra to explore pathways to advance supply chain resilience
ACCRA, GHANA - 9 June 2026 - The ISEAL Global Sustainability Symposium 2026 convened producers, businesses, policymakers and sustainability leaders in Accra today to explore how supply chains can become more resilient and inclusive in a rapidly changing global context.
Beyond disruption: rethinking resilience from the first mile
As climate shocks, conflict and pressure on natural resources destabilise supply chains, resilience is often seen as a response to disruption. But long-term supply security also depends on the conditions under which producers can sustain production.
Assurance integrity in a changing risk landscape: How ISEAL members are strengthening practice with the Assurance Integrity Framework
The integrity of assurance depends on having sufficient accuracy and reliability of assurance results. For sustainability systems, maintaining and strengthening their assurance integrity requires a proactive and adaptive approach.
Scaling innovations in sustainability systems
Sustainability systems are responding to growing demands around traceability, credible data, due diligence and measurable outcomes. A recent ISEAL Innovations Fund event brought together sustainability leaders to explore what drives innovation in sustainability systems and how successful approaches can scale.
