Sustainability news
Gender equality isn’t just important in its own right. It’s also key to unlocking other impacts that sustainability standards and similar systems are…
Taking sustainability seriously is no longer a nice to have for companies but a must.
The EU’s legislative projects on sustainability are…
New guidance from ISEAL sets out how companies and sustainability systems can credibly communicate about their work on living wages. As corporate…
If your company touches deforestation-risk commodities in Europe, then the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) should be top of your mind. This…
The only way to solve the sustainability challenges that we face today, such as climate change, is through collaboration, collective action and…
The world won’t meet its sustainability goals without addressing gender issues – and sustainability standards and similar systems have an important…
The ISEAL Innovations Fund supports ISEAL members to join forces in exploring new, ambitious solutions to key sustainability challenges. Eight new…
As the world’s sustainability challenges intensify, the demands placed on business have never been greater – from developing science-based net-zero…
The concept of living wages is based on the fundamental principle that workers should earn sufficiently to afford a decent standard of…
With increasing investment being made in landscape and jurisdictional level action, and more needed to address the critical sustainability challenges…
ISEAL has launched a six-week public consultation seeking input into its draft guidance on credible claims in the living wage space. One of ISEAL’s…
Building on last year’s successful suite of training courses, we have launched an updated series covering assurance, and monitoring and evaluation…
Last year was especially significant for ISEAL, as we celebrated 20 years of leading the way on credible practices for sustainability systems.
Much…
Delivering sustainability assurance through effective standards and accredited conformity assessment
Collaboration to promote sustainability assurance through standards and accredited conformity assessment.
ISEAL in collaboration with the…
ISEAL is delighted to announce that the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) has recently been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. We are…
Last month, the Living Income Community of Practice, with Living Income Thematic Group of Cote d’Ivoire and IDH, brought together experts from the…
A core tenet of the international human rights system is that when people’s rights are harmed or abused, there must be access to effective remedies.…
As the world’s sustainability challenges intensify, the demands placed on business have never been greater – from developing science-based net-zero…
By mid-2020 it had become obvious that the restrictions limiting movement across the globe in response to the covid-19 pandemic were not fleeting. As…
Help shape more effective solutions to sustainability challenges by joining the consultation on the second draft of our Code of Good Practice.
Our…
New ISEAL research shares insights from 14 global companies on the actions they are taking to ensure workers receive a living wage, the challenges…
The Global Biodiversity Framework, coming out of the CBD COP15 in December last year, has energised actions and commitments to scale up conservation…
There is a strong need for a regulatory approach that ensures the substantiation of sustainability claims, but it’s key that this legal framework…
The concept of ‘Living Income’ has grown in popularity as a way to improve livelihoods for smallholders. It goes a step beyond traditional notions of…
Women bear a disproportionate burden of the adverse impacts of climate change. In low- and middle-income countries, women are highly dependent on…
ISEAL is pleased to announce that GLOBALG.A.P. has recently been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. We are excited to be able to bring their…
ISEAL is pleased to announce that Green Seal has recently been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. We warmly welcome one of the very first eco-…
ISEAL is very pleased to announce that ResponsibleSteel has recently been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. We are excited that they join an…
ISEAL is excited to announce that Swiss Better Gold Association has recently been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. They join a growing and…
ISEAL is delighted to announce that OEKO-TEX® has recently been approved as an ISEAL Community Member. As one of the first two eco-label systems to…