With the release of ISEAL’s Annual Review 2023, we reflect on the year’s most significant developments and achievements to support credible practices.
The launch of the ISEAL Code of Good Practice marked a big step forward for ISEAL. The ISEAL Code has an expanded scope to apply to a wider range of sustainability systems and covers emerging areas of good practice, including due diligence and claims management, helping to better respond to changing demands in the sustainability landscape.
ISEAL also continued to support its membership in working together and with partners. From responding to the requirements of the due diligence regulations to accelerating progress in human rights, poverty alleviation and decent work.
More highlights from 2023 include:
- developing a claims framework to support credible claims in the living wage space.
- in partnership with the Tropical Forest Alliance, aligning 18 leading initiatives around a set of four positions on how companies can invest in landscape actions, measure performance improvements and make claims about progress in implementing those actions.
- working with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to explore how sustainability systems can strengthen work on remediation.
- working with Bioversity International to advance gender equality in supply chains through sustainability systems.
- through the Living Income Community of Practice, working with IDH – The Sustainable Trade Initiative on improving living income in the cocoa sector and continuing to support the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to develop its technical handbook on living income and wages.
- launching a climate-specific funding round through the Innovations Fund.
- co-hosting a stakeholder workshop with ITC in Ghana to discuss the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (EU CSDDD), with a focus on the cocoa sector.
By the end of 2023 we had expanded our membership to 45 Community Members and 20 Code Compliant members. We also extended the presence of the Living Income Community of Practice, for which we are the secretariat, reaching more than 2,800 subscribers across 111 countries.
We will continue to raise ambition on topics such as living income, human rights and climate and support sustainability systems and their partners in tackling complex sustainability issues.
Read our annual review to learn more about our work and progress.
