Voluntary Sustainability Standards
This project reflects on the phenomenon of private transnational governance and in particular on Voluntary Sustainability Standards and their role for trade and sustainable development. The activities involve research collaboration with the International Trade Centre and the United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards as well as with leading scholars in the field organised through interactions under the umbrella of an Academic Advisory Council (AAC). The Global Economics team of the Global Governance Programme hosted the AAC meeting in 2023.
Video
Schuman Short: What are Voluntary Sustainability Standard Systems | Matteo Fiorini
Publications
- Global governance through voluntary sustainability standards: Developments, trends and challenges, Axel Marx1,Charline Depoorter, Santiago Fernandez de Cordoba, Rupal Verma, Mercedes Araoz, Graeme Auld, Janne Bemelmans, Elizabeth A. Bennett, Eva Boonaert, Clara Brandi, Thomas Dietz, Eve Fouilleux, Janina Grabs, Lars H. Gulbrandsen, James Harrison, Robert Heilmayr, Ariel Hernandez, Bernard Hoekman, Siti Rubiah Lambert, Eric Lambin, Li Li, Miet Maertens, Paulo Mortara Batistic, Etsuyo Michida, Junji Nakagawa, Archna Negi, Jorge A. Pérez- Pineda, Stefano Ponte, Ximena Rueda, Philip Schleifer, Vera Thorstensen, Hamish van der Ven
- Social and environmental standards : contributing to more sustainable value chains, Matteo Fiorini, Philip Schlifer, Olga Solleder, Regina Taimasova, Marion Jansen, Joseph Wozniak, Bernard Hoekman
- Social and environmental standards: From fragmentation to coordination, International Trade Centre, Matteo Fiorini, Philip Schlifer, Regina Taimasova
- Voluntary Sustainability Standards, Trade and Sustainable Development, United Nations Forum on Sustainability Standards