Sentence examples for sustainability certification from inspiring English sources

A quantitative methodology was utilised to examine the current circumstance of sustainable behaviours and how sustainability certification practices are measured in terms of farming methods, social security and the knowledge of sustainable coffee production by farmers.

The company's plant in China is the first anywhere to earn the sustainability certification from the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials Services Foundation for industrial carbon capture and use.

A founding member of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a body set up to address environmental and social issues in palm oil, IOI's sustainability certification was suspended in April after allegations of wrongdoing in Indonesia.

The walleye pollock fishery in the Sea of Okhotsk has earned the Marine Stewardship Council sustainability certification, and the cod fishery in the Barents Sea also serves as a model of international cooperation on sustainability.

Early last year, Alaska's wild salmon fishing industry decided to end its partnership with the seafood world's most prominent sustainability certification group in favor of its own labeling efforts.

For example, companies including Dunkin' Donuts, McDonald's, Nestlé and Unilever pledged not to source from palm oil giant IOI after the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) – a body set up to address environmental and social issues in palm oil – suspended IOI's sustainability certification in April over allegations of deforestation.

Oikocredit is working with technology providers such as Technoserve to help farmers monitor crop performance (which is important for gaining sustainability certifications), as well as financial literacy trainers.

We compost what we can, avoid chemicals in the garden and we look out for sustainability certifications on the products we buy – so when buying wood, for furniture for example, we always look out for FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified products, and for fish we would choose items with a MSC (Marine Stewardship Council) certification.

This is opening space for competing initiatives that are less democratic, quicker, and more aligned with industry interests to establish substantial presence in the market for sustainability certifications.

In this article, I examine to what extent these expectations are being met through the comparative case study of two sustainability certifications in the biofuel industry – in the context of a wider set of experiences in the agro-food and forestry sectors.

The prototype DFFS has been tested in Sierra Leone to assess its success in providing a substitute for face-to-face voluntary sustainability standard certification training for cocoa farmers.