ISEAL Alliance

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The International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labeling Alliance (ISEAL Alliance) is a so-called meta-governance system for sustainability initiatives and accreditors in the field of the environment.

Goal setting

Meta-governance can address issues that arise from competition from multiple sustainability initiatives in the same sector or in the supply chain . One problem is the duplication of efforts, as competing initiatives face the same challenges. Furthermore, various seals cause confusion for both consumers and producers and thus contribute to a loss of legitimacy and credibility in the eyes of third parties.

membership

Multi-stakeholder initiatives and accreditation bodies can become members. The ISEAL Alliance has members who are active in the agriculture and organic food, biofuels, textile, forestry, mining, oil, fishing, water and tourism sectors. According to Bernstein and Hannah (2008), the most important sustainability initiatives are ISEAL members.

activity

The ISEAL Alliance then takes over the coordination of the sustainability initiatives, advises, supports, involves stakeholders and thus contributes to legitimacy and credibility. Derkx and Glasbergen (2014) see a success factor in the fact that ISEAL primarily demands improvements in the member process, but not a harmonization of standards. This carries the risk of finding the lowest common denominator and of conflicts between the members.

Members

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Boudewijn Derkx & Pieter Glasbergen: Elaborating global private meta-governance: An inventory in the realm of voluntary sustainability standards . In: Global Environmental Change . tape 27 , 2014, doi : 10.1016 / j.gloenvcha.2014.04.016 (English, full text [PDF]).
  2. ^ A b Pieter Glasbergen: Legitimation of Certifying Partnerships in the Global Market Place . In: Environmental Policy and Governance . tape 23 , no. 6 , 2013, doi : 10.1002 / eet.1625 (English).
  3. ↑ Abbott, KW; Snidal, D. (2009): The Governance Triangle: Regulatory Standards Institutions and the Shadow of the State. In: Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods (eds.): The Politics of Global Regulation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, pp. 79 f. Available online at http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/451889 , last checked on August 1, 2016.
  4. ^ Renzo Mori Junior, Daniel M. Franks & Saleem H. Ali: Designing Sustainability Certification for Impact: Analysis of the design characteristics of 15 sustainability standards in the mining industry . Brisbane 2015, p. 22 (English, researchgate.net [PDF]).
  5. ↑ ISEAL Alliance (ed.) (2014b): Setting Social and Environmental Standards. ISEAL Code of Good Practice. London. S. 3. Available online under Archived Copy ( Memento of the original dated January 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last checked on August 10, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isealalliance.org
  6. ↑ Our sectors. (No longer available online.) In: ISEAL Alliance. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017 ; accessed on January 2, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isealalliance.org
  7. ↑ Bernstein, S .; Hannah, E. (2008): Non-State Global Standard Setting and the WTO. Legitimacy and the Need for Regulatory Space. In: Journal of International Economic Law 11 (3), p. 581. doi: 10.1093 / jiel / jgn022 .