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- Sustainability Standards at Rio+20: Share your event news
For the past months ISEAL has been working with its members to push for the recognition of credible standards and certification at the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil. As part of these collective efforts we are hosting a side-event on 17 June in Rio de Janeir ...
Article - Jason LaChappelle - 16 May 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- MSC releases new five-year strategic plan
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), created to improve the health of the world's oceans by building markets for sustainable seafood, has released its new strategic roadmap towards that mission for the next five years. The plan lays out whe ...
Article - Jason LaChappelle - 11 May 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- What Makes a Standard Credible? Clear Objectives and Scope
By Lara Koritzke, ISEAL's Director of Development & Communications. How do standard-setters ensure that their standard has been developed in a way that allows stakeholders to know what change it is intended to effect? They do so thro ...
Article - Anonymous - 18 Apr 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Brazil's Green Building Boom
By Jason LaChappelle, ISEAL Communications Coordinator. With our annual conference approaching in May, we sit down with Felipe Faria, one of the speakers you’ll hear from in Bonn, to talk about growth in the Brazilian green building se ...
Article - Jason LaChappelle - 19 Apr 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Spotlight on Walmart: Talking Sustainability with the World's Biggest Retailer
Walmart is the third largest grossing company in the world with 2011 revenues of over US$400 billion. Selling tens of thousands of items from hundreds of brands and product types, Walmart’s supply chains span the globe. Its influence in the consumer g ...
Article - Jason LaChappelle - 19 Apr 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Milestones in the Sustainability Standards Movement
The theme of this year's annual conference in Bonn from 29-30 May is to explore how businesses, governments, NGOs and sustainability standards can develop innovative partnerships that lead to positive global social and environmental impacts. But ...
Article - Jason LaChappelle - 19 Apr 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- The Pillars of ISEAL's work on Impacts
By Marta Maireles, ISEAL's Monitoring & Evaluation Coordinator. In 2010, ISEAL launched its Impacts Code , a Code of Good Practice requiring ISEAL members to clearly specify their intended social, environmental and economic impacts, mon ...
Article - Jason LaChappelle - 17 Apr 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Conflict Minerals: A Shift towards Transparency
By Jason LaChappelle, Communications Coordinator, and Natalie Gawor, Conference Assistant . In anticipation of ISEAL’s upcoming conference in May, we look at how governments and the private sector are taking action to address conflict ...
Article - Jason LaChappelle - 19 Apr 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- RSB Launches Public Consultation on Indirect Impacts
The Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels (RSB) Secretariat is launching a Public Consultation on the issue of Indirect Impacts and is looking for your input on the subject. During the past three years, the RSB Secretariat, based at Ecole Polytechni ...
Article - Jason LaChappelle - 16 Apr 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- ISEAL & SECO launch landmark sustainability standards project
PRESS RELEASE LONDON, UK – The ISEAL Alliance and the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) today announced the launch of an innovative three-year project to drive up the use of sustainability standards in emerging economies ...
Article - ISEAL Alliance - 26 Mar 2012 - 0 comments - 1 attachment
