The newly renamed Global Seafood Alliance took on the Responsible Fishing Vessel Standard when it merged with Global Seafood Assurances earlier this year
The Rapid Interview with Asia Pulp & Paper
19 May 2021
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We caught up with Christopher Wong, SVP and global business unit head for industrial paper at Asia Pulp & Paper, for our latest Rapid Interview.
Your elevator pitch: introduce and sell us your company
Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) Sinar Mas is a pulp and paper manufacturing company that delivers quality products to meet growing global demand for paper, tissue, and packaging. With an annual pulp, paper, and packaging capacity of more than 20 million tons, the company markets its products in more than 150 countries.
This growth is guided by our vision of a better future. Part of that vision is the integrity of our supply chain and our commitments to our Sustainability Roadmap Vision 2030.Â
SSCI Insights With Didier Bergeret, The Consumer Goods Forum
SSCI Insights With Didier Bergeret, The Consumer Goods Forum
In this first episode of SSCI Insights, a new virtual interview series from the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative, CGF Director of Sustainability Didier Bergeret offers thoughts on how the sustainability landscape has evolved since the launch of the SSCI in 2017, the value of SSCI membership, and how the SSCI works alongside the CGF’s other Coalitions to drive alignment among expectations for sustainability across the consumer goods industry.
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PARIS, May 10, 2021 /3BL Media/ – The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (SSCI) has today opened its social benchmark to the fishing, agriculture and land-based aquaculture sectors with the launch of benchmark requirements for its new At-Sea Operations and Primary Production scopes. The benchmark requirements, which include Social and Scheme Management Criteria, have been developed in close collaboration with the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI), bringing together the SSCI’s experience in supply chain social compliance and the GSSI’s expertise in the seafood sector, with support from IDH, the Sustainable Trade Initiative.
With the launch of the new benchmark requirements for At-Sea Operations and Primary Production, the SSCI is pleased to welcome third-party social compliance auditing, monitoring and certification schemes covering activities in these two sectors to apply for SSCI benchmarking. This launch opens up
EMD adopts Sourcing Code of Conduct
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EMD supports Private Label suppliers in meeting the set criteria
Launching cooperation with A-Brand suppliers in Sustainability
Pfäffikon/Switzerland. Responsibility for people, working conditions and the environment - as Europe s leading purchasing alliance, EMD has always been committed to this. Now the top issue of social sustainability is being defined even more concretely by European Marketing Distribution: from now on, Private Label suppliers will be subjected to a SOURCING CODE OF CONDUCT which defines 12 sustainability criteria for cooperation with EMD. The content of these purchasing guidelines is based on the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative (of which EMD is an active member) of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF). Private Label suppliers who do not yet comply with the new EMD purchasing guidelines are accompanied by the international retail alliance and given support in achieving this goal.