Green Economy

The Outcome Statement includes the 13 recommendations to the UNFCCC and Sustainable Development Goals processes. More than 50 partner organizations developed these policy statements over the two days of the Forum.

As the challenges of certifying forest ecosystem services persist, delegates at the U.N. climate summit in Warsaw are anticipating new insights from a meeting of certification organizations this weekend. Building on their year-old alliance, The Gold Standard Foundation and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) are joining forces with Fairtrade International to explore the challenges of certifying […]

By now most everyone is familiar with eco-certifications of some kind: USDA Organic, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), and Rainforest Alliance CertifiedTM are just a few we have been living with for at least a decade. But as these types of sustainability initiatives proliferate, expanding to new commodities and having larger impacts on supply chains and consumer […]

Ghazoul, J.; Garcia, C.A.; Kushalappa, C.G. 2011