Tools and Mechanisms

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 Reporting Initiative: Sustainability Reporting

https://www.globalreporting.org/information/sustai...

Since 1999, GRI has provided a comprehensive Sustainability Reporting Framework that is widely used around the world. The cornerstone of the Framework is the Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. As a result of the credibility, consistency and comparability it offers, GRI’s Framework has become a de facto standard in sustainability reporting.

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.

Global Water Tool

http://www.wbcsd.org/work-program/sector-projects/...

A World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) tool to help companies and organizations to map their water use and assess risks relative to their global operations and supply chains.

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.

Globe Foundation

http://globe.ca/

The GLOBE Foundation is a Vancouver-based, not-for-profit organization dedicated to finding practical business-oriented solutions to the world's environmental problems. GLOBE believes that companies can do well by doing good without sacrificing the bottom line, and environmental challenges bring enormous opportunity for the business sector.

Their three guiding principles are:

1. Environmental problems are business opportunities.
2. Companies that can provide clean technologies and solutions will prosper.
3. Proactive organizations that embrace environmental sustainability will be more competitive.

Green Development Initiative Certification

http://gdi.earthmind.net/certification/

The Green Development Initiative (GDI) is an international response to the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP10), particularly with respect to the strategies for resource mobilisation and business engagement. It aims to establish an international green development certification scheme for land management. Such a scheme will enable land managers to be recognised for their efforts to conserve biodiversity and use biological resources sustainably and equitably. In so doing, the GDI intends to stimulate new market-based financing of conservation and development on the ground.

Green Economy Initiative

http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/

The Green Economy Initiative is designed to assist governments in “greening” their economies by reshaping and refocusing policies, investments, and spending towards a range of sectors such as clean technologies, renewable energies, water services, green transportation, waste management, green buildings, and sustainable agriculture and forests.

Green Economy, Green Business

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/economy/

The transition to a Green Economy is essential for delivering sustainable development and long term growth. The Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)’s commitment will be met through leading by example in our own operations as well as working with business and consumers. DEFRA’s policies around waste, valuing the natural environment, and adapting to and mitigating climate change all play an important role in delivering a green economy.