From mitigating and adapting to climate change, to addressing human rights’ abuses in supply chains, to contributing to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, businesses are increasingly expected to play their part in tackling the big issues facing our planet and societies. Getting serious about sustainability isn’t just the right thing…

June 2021 marks the ten-year anniversary of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Adoption of the Principles was a landmark moment for the global human rights movement providing a clear framework that emphasised the complementary responsibilities of States and businesses in respecting and promoting human rights. In…

The launch of ISEAL’s new membership structure marks a focus on a wider range of sustainability systems and offers new and enhanced products. We’re in the final decade before the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ deadline. Bringing increased pressure to deliver the urgent changes required to tackle critical sustainability challenges. …

“You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” runs the old business adage. Conversely, good metrics and data can help you make better management decisions, develop effective strategies and monitor progress. Measuring sustainability, though, isn’t easy. While it may be simple enough to quantify the financial performance of a producer, a…

As companies and governments seek effective solutions to meet their sustainability goals, the importance of credible and robust benchmarking is increasing. ISEAL’s Sustainability Benchmarking Good Practice Guide offers a useful framework to plan and implement benchmarks of sustainability standards, tools and policies. One of ISEAL’s core objectives is to support…

Ensuring resilient livelihoods and sustained employment for vulnerable communities was already a stretch pre-Covid-19. For those communities lacking a stable income, the impact has been inconceivable. With border closures and travel restrictions, the downturn in trade has massively affected the income and employment of these vulnerable communities, especially the self-employed. …

As sustainability professionals, we often ask ourselves what works: What works to address deforestation? What works to improve farmer incomes? What works to address labour rights in supply chains? Are our programmes, policies and decisions based on evidence or are we making a leap of faith? To know which strategies…

Today we find ourselves in one of the most disruptive times in modern history. Around the globe, sustainability organisations and sustainability-minded businesses are pivoting to support the producers, workers, families and enterprises along their supply chains in response to Covid-19. Sustainability systems, such as ISEAL members, are responding to the…

With companies exploring scalable solutions to meet their sustainability commitments in a post-2020 world, ISEAL and its partners are looking at how they can support landscape-wide transformation. The idea of a landscape and jurisdictional approach is simple and compelling — that sustainability issues like deforestation, biodiversity loss and climate change…