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Today we find ourselves in one of the most disruptive times in modern history. Around the globe, sustainability organisations and…
ISEAL’s Credibility Principles have helped businesses, policy makers and standards developers define and identify good practice for sustainability…
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Sustainability standards from the mining, minerals and metals (MMM) sector are working together to increase the effectiveness, efficiency and impact…
MarinTrust, independent business to business certification programme for the marine ingredient value chain, has been accepted as a full member of…
If the UN Sustainable Development Goals are to be achieved by 2030, then immediate and urgent action is needed to transform global production systems…
Everyone has the right to a living income. Yet, as we move into a new decade, there are still around 500 million smallholder farming households…
With companies exploring scalable solutions to meet their sustainability commitments in a post-2020 world, ISEAL and its partners are looking at how…
As we enter 2020, one big question is whether the European Union will bring in legislation on corporate human rights and environmental due diligence…
ISEAL recently published the final report from a three-year study that assesses the early impacts of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) on…
How can we claim a product is sustainable if the farmers producing its ingredients are not earning enough for a decent standard of living? As we…
ISEAL members and subscribers demonstrated a range of tools and innovations designed to increase the impacts of sustainability standards, during…
As sustainability professionals, we often ask ourselves what works: What works to address deforestation? What works to improve farmer incomes? What…
As companies and governments seek effective solutions to meet their sustainability goals, the importance of credible and robust benchmarking is…
The ISEAL Innovations Fund empowers standards systems to practically test their innovations, and is pleased to announce a new round of funding…
Gold Standard has met the entry-level criteria of each of the three ISEAL Codes of Good Practice – Standard-Setting, Assurance and Impacts – to…
ISEAL announces the Sustainable Eel Group (SEG) as associate member. SEG joins as an organisation whose system meets ISEAL’s entry level criteria.…
In the six years since ISEAL first launched the Credibility Principles the sustainability landscape has continued to evolve, shaped in part by the…
As more evidence emerges it continues to highlight the importance of innovating and collaborating to have greater sustainability impact.
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In 2018 we saw ISEAL’s membership increase as we welcomed four new associate members working in sectors from mining to marine ingredients, clearly…
ISEAL, WWF and Rainforest Alliance launched a new website called Evidensia on 18 June 2019. The site aims to be a robust global repository of…
In recent years, a wealth of evidence has been published on the manner in which sustainability initiatives can result in positive economic, social…
In May 2019, a coalition of nine ISEAL members launched the new ‘Pesticides and Alternatives’ app as part of their mission to eliminate the use of…
‘We can’t be satisfied with knowing our outputs. We must be obsessed with outcomes and impacts’. This is what participants heard at a workshop in…
Impact is a word we hear all the time in sustainability circles. Often when we talk about impacts, we’re talking about reducing the negative ones.…
Geospatial data has become part of our everyday lives. We increasingly depend on apps and programs that use map-based information to provide useful…
Climate change, deforestation and forced labour are among many increasingly pressing issues that need more investment, innovation and collaboration.…
Most sustainability standards are benchmarked in one way or another. This means they are assessed, compared and potentially recognised as meeting a…
BSR (Business for Social Responsibility) and Assurance Services International (ASI) provided key insights into the techniques and impact of gender…
Patrick Mallet, Innovations Director at ISEAL, and Akiva Fishman, Senior Program Officer at World Wildlife Fund, discuss what credible assurance at a…