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Call for investment to spur ethical fashion education

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... This would require developing a consistent standard around ethical product certification. While some labels such as Fair Trade and the Rainforest Alliance quantify some ethical metrics, Kitto says no standard goes far enough. For example, while "certification ...

Nature credits a potential bonanza for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainably, even if they don't have nature credits on their sites or carbon credits on their site, but they may be able to do fair trade certification/carbon neutral certification and that's a premium product. Underpinning this action is the Kunming-Montreal ...

Sustainability, fair trade organisations call for equitable COVID-19 recovery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Australia, New Zealand and Pacific have issued a five point plan for a post-COVID-19 recovery. The three sustainably and fair trade organisations have outlined a plan for regional and global recovery from the COVID-19 crisis aimed at reducing inequalities ...

UCA Funds Management certified as B Corp, signs Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency. "B Corp is to sustainable business what Fair Trade is to coffee," said Mathew Browning, CEO Of UCA Funds Management. "The idea that others can look at us and know where ...

Ruling against Heinz shows risks in public shift towards health foods

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... provide for it." Carlsson-Sweeny compared claims around health to wider terminology around supply chain issues, such as Fair Trade, human rights issues and other impacts. "If you're a company and you say, we guarantee that there's no slavery in our supply ...

Learning from Europe's example in social investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... industry at the moment is 'nice but small.' There are very few examples of large scale examples. For example, there is Fair Trade coffee. But then the question is, why has it worked for coffee and not other products?" Addarii also pointed to French social ...

Fourth Carbon Farming Initiative methodology approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... information in the CFI Registrar. In time, it will provide a means of signalling other benefits, in a similar way to 'Fair Trade' labelling, and therefore attract premium for benefits which flow to Indigenous peoples and/or the biodiversity of various ...

Woolworths' employment, supply chain policies in 2011 report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... sustainable retailing measures were aimed at suppliers of the own brand line - Woolworths' animal welfare policies, fair trade policies and sustainable sourcing for produce policies all applied to suppliers of the own brand. The company this year also ...
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