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Gains in sustainability using Voluntary Sustainability Standards: A systematic review

Cleaner Logistics and Supply Chain, 2022
The ongoing growth of concerns with regard to the sustainability of the planet has led to the increasing expansion on international agendas of commercial certification schemes based on Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSSs). This has influenced public
Kairo Fernandes Martins, Denilson Teixeira, Rogério de Oliveira Corrêa   +2 more
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Effects of stakeholder input on voluntary sustainability standards

Global Environmental Change, 2022
Voluntary sustainability standards can be powerful tools for incentivizing sustainable production practices. Most standards rely on stakeholder input to gain legitimacy and set levels of achievement for businesses at an appropriate level. Yet, the effects of stakeholder input are contentious. Whereas some see stakeholder input leading to more stringent
Hamish van der Ven
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Governing spillovers of agricultural land use through voluntary sustainability standards: A coverage analysis of sustainability requirements [PDF]

Earth System Governance, 2022
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are prominent governance instruments that define and verify sustainable agricultural land use at farm and supply chain levels.
Gabi Sonderegger, Andreas Heinimann, Vasco Diogo, Christoph Oberlack   +3 more
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Sustainability assessment in agriculture: emerging issues in voluntary sustainability standards and their governance

Ecology and Society, 2023
Over the past two decades, voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) have emerged as instruments to improve social and environmental practices and to communicate sustainability standards in trade and business. However, debates about the correct assessment
Xiangping Jia
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Voluntary Sustainability Standards: State of the Art and Future Research [PDF]

Standards, 2022
In this feature paper, we introduce voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) and canvas the research that has been conducted on VSS from different academic disciplines. We identify four main areas of research on VSS and explore them. First, we focus on research on the institutional design of VSS, which highlights the diversity among VSS.
Charline Depoorter, Axel Marx
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Voluntary Sustainability Standards and the Sustainable Development Goals [PDF]

, 2020
This chapter explores the extent to which voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) may or may not contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and thus have transformative impacts. The first part is a content analysis of formal VSS requirements, based on the ITC Standards Map data, which points to a considerable number ...
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Voluntary sustainability standards and trading-up in tropical agrifood commodities

Nature Communications
Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) are widespread market-based instruments promoting sustainability through trade. While their socio-economic and environmental outcomes vary, their trade effects remain poorly understood, raising concerns about ...
Janne Bemelmans, Charline Depoorter, Axel Marx, Miet Maertens   +3 more
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Cost reduction for upscaling voluntary sustainability standards: the case of independent oil palm smallholders in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Upscaling Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) can generate ecological and social benefits at a scale that is meaningful to address pressing environmental issues such as climate change and biodiversity losses.
Silvia Irawan, Katryn Pasaribu, Jonah Busch, Arie Dwiyastuti, Heni Martanila, Dyah Retnani, Dwiki Mirjan Fajri, Venticia Hukom   +7 more
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On the relation between sustainability report and assurance standards in Brazilian financial institutions

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 2022
This study investigates the adherence to standards for assuring Sustainability Reports of financial Institutions listed on B3 stock market between 2016 and 2018.
Giovanna Facury Aigner, Joshua Onome Imoniana, Washington Lopes Silva   +2 more
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Voluntary standards and the SDGs: Mapping public-private complementarities for sustainable development

Earth System Governance, 2022
To strengthen global sustainability governance, academics and policymakers have called for a better integration of private governance with public policy instruments.
Philip Schleifer, Clara Brandi, Rupal Verma, Katharina Bissinger, Matteo Fiorini   +4 more
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