Standards

FairWild

http://www.fairwild.org/

Fairwild endeavours to provide a worldwide framework for implementing a sustainable, fair, and value-added management and trading system for wild-collected natural ingredients and products thereof.

Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT): Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs)

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/forests/flegt.htm

A key element of the FLEGT Action Plan is a voluntary scheme to ensure that only legally harvested timber is imported into the EU from countries agreeing to take part in this scheme.

Forest Stewardship Council

http://www.fsc.org/

FSC, founded in 1993, is an international non-government organization dedicated to promoting sustainable forest management through voluntary certification.

General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean

http://www.gfcm.org/gfcm

Consisting of 23 Member countries along with the European Union, the GFCM’s objectives are to promote the development, conservation, rational management, and best utilization of living marine resources, as well as the sustainable development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and connecting waters.

Global Aquaculture Alliance

http://www.gaalliance.org/

International, non-profit trade association dedicated to advancing environmentally and socially responsible aquaculture. GAA promotes the Best Aquaculture Practices certification standards for aquaculture seafood. The Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) standards address environmental and social responsibility, animal welfare, food safety and traceability in a voluntary certification programme for aquaculture facilities.

Global Compact Network Germany

http://www.globalcompact.de/index.php?id=30

The Global Compact Network Germany is an active learning and dialog platform for the implementation of the ten Global Compact principles. Biodiversity is one of the priority issues of the network in Germany in 2010.  The German Global Compact network seeks to promote multi-stakeholder dialog and constructive cooperation between government, business and other sectors of society.

Global Organic Textile Standard

http://www.global-standard.org/

Produced by the International Working Group on GOTS, this international standard harmonises those of national and regional trade associations. Based on the IFOAM criteria, this standard defines requirements to ensure organic status of textiles, from harvesting of raw materials, through manufacture, to labelling.

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

http://www.globalreporting.org

The GRI is a non-profit organization that works towards a sustainable global economy by providing sustainability reporting guidance. The ​GRI has pioneered and developed a comprehensive Sustainability Reporting Framework that is widely used around the world. The Framework enables all organizations to measure and report their economic, environmental, social and governance performance – the four key areas of sustainability.

Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria (GTSC)

http://new.gstcouncil.org

The GSTC Criteria are the result of a worldwide effort to develop a common language about sustainability in tourism. Focusing on social and environmental responsibility, as well as the positive and negative economic and cultural impacts of tourism, the criteria are organized into four topics:

• Sustainable management
• Socioeconomic impacts
• Cultural impacts
• Environmental impacts (including consumption of resources, reducing pollution, and conserving biodiversity and landscapes)

Specifically, two sets of criteria have been developed: one for hotels and tour operators, and one for destinations.

GLOBALG.A.P

http://www.globalgap.org/cms/front_content.php?idc...

GLOBALG.A.P. is a private sector body that sets voluntary standards for the certification of production processes of agricultural (including aquaculture) products around the globe.

The GLOBALG.A.P. standard is primarily designed to reassure consumers about how food is produced on the farm by minimising detrimental environmental impacts of farming operations, reducing the use of chemical inputs and ensuring a responsible approach to worker health and safety as well as animal welfare.