How can sustainability systems help to accelerate climate action? An upcoming learning brief from the ISEAL Innovations Fund offers answers, drawing on projects that test new approaches to emissions reporting, just transitions, and smallholder engagement across complex value chains.

The brief showcases efforts across diverse sectors and commodities to improve greenhouse gas (GHG) measurement and reporting, support socially responsible transitions to net-zero, and incentivise sustainable practices among small-scale producers and enterprises.

Featured initiatives include the Sustainable Rice Platform’s new module on low-carbon assurance to measure GHG reductions in rice cultivation; the Round Table on Responsible Soy’s Regenerative Incentives System, designed to create incentives for producers to invest in regenerative agriculture practices; and Copper Mark’s partnership with the Rocky Mountain Institute to help steer the copper industry towards a low-carbon future.

The ISEAL Innovations Fund, supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs SECO and UK International Development from the UK government, enables sustainability systems and their partners to test innovative approaches to improve supply chain action and reporting on climate and nature.

 The new learning brief will be launched in September 2025.