ISEAL Alliance

With attendees from the corporate sector, governmental bodies, NGO's and ISEAL members, this year's Public Day Conference in Zurich was our most insightful and thought-provoking event yet. If you missed it you can find out what happened in some of the sessions and download the presentations from the day here.

The Scaling Up Strategy: Scaling Up the Impacts of Voluntary Standards, which was officially launched at the conference, is available to download here. To download resources from the ISEAL Conference member-only days click here (you must be a member and logged in to see this).

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Opening Plenary

New Actors in the Standards Landscape: How will Emerging Economies and Standards Systems Become Partners in Sustainability?

• Emerging Economies and Standards Systems - Partners in Sustainability? A summary of what happened in the session.
• Sustainability Standards Systems - What’s up in Brazil? (PDF file) - Tasso Azevado, Former Director General, Brazilian Forest Service.

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Morning Sessions:

PS01: Measuring the Impacts of Certification: Towards a Focus for Future Research

• Measuring the Impacts of Certification - A summary of what happened in the session.
• Measuring Impacts of Certification: Towards a Focus for Future Research (PowerPoint file) - Dr Elizabeth Kennedy, Director of Evaluation and Research, Rainforest Alliance

PS02: Sustainability Standards in China: The Way Forward

• Sustainbility Standards in China - A summary of what happened in the session.
• Voluntary Standards & the Chinese Reality (PowerPoint file) - Martin Ma, China Programme Director, Social Accountability International.

PS03: Protecting Supply Chains and Livelihoods in the face of Climate Change: Perspectives from the Coffee Sector

• Climate Change: A Hot Topic at the ISEAL Conference - A summary of what happened in the session.
• "If we had but world enough, and time…" (PDF file) - Dr Peter Baker, Senior Scientist, CABI
• Kraft Sustainable Agriculture Strategy (PowerPoint file) - Neil la Croix, Director of Sustainable Supply Chains, Kraft Foods
• SAN Climate Module Criteria for Adaptation and Mitigation (PowerPoint file) - Oliver Bach, Standards and Policy Director, SAN Secretariat/Rsinforest Alliance

PS04: Linking Producers to Markets: Potentials, Challenges and Ways Ahead

• Coop Switzerland: Linking Producers to Markets (PowerPoint file) - Dr Sibyl Anwander Phan-Huy, Head of Public Affairs and Sustainability, Coop Switzerland
• SECO Intervention in PVS (PowerPoint file (PowerPoint file) - Hans-Peter Egler, Head of Trade Promotion, SECO 
• Demand Driven PPP (PowerPoint file) - Yayra Glover, Owner and Managing Director, Yayra Glover Ltd. (Ghana) 
• Helvetas: Linking Producer to Markets (PowerPoint file) - Peter Schmidt, Co-head of International Development, Helvetas

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Afternoon Sessions:

PS05: Step Approaches as Tools for Scaling Up

• Stepping up Towards Scaling up Sustainable Coffee Production (PowerPoint file) - Andrea Bruestle, Partnership Coordinator, 4C Association

PS06: Governmental use of Sustainability Standards: Examples and Lessons from the Biofuels Sector

• Where Government and Standard Systems Collide: Biofuels - A summary of what happened in the session.
• Flight Plan Towards Sustainable Aviation Biofuels in Mexico (PowerPoint file) - Alejandro Rios Galvan, Director, ASA Fuel Services (Mexico)
• Examples & Lessons from the UK RTFO (PowerPoint file) - Dr Keeley Bignal, Sustainability Technical Guidance Specialist, UK Department for Transport

PS07: Strengthening Verification in Sustainability Standards: the Development of the ISEAL Assurance Code

• Strengthening Verification in Sustainability Standards: the Development of the ISEAL Assurance Code (PowerPoint file) - Patrick Mallet, ISEAL Credibility Director and Paddy Doherty, ISEAL Code Development Manager 

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Closing Plenary

How to Achieve Socially and Environmentally Responsible Value Chains? Exploration Through a Textiles and Apparel Lens

• Sustainability Challenges in the Textiles and Apparel Sector - A summary of what happened in the session.