ISCC  General  Assembly    Brussels,  February  2016    

 

THE  CONSUMER    GOODS  FORUM  Sustainability  Pillar

THE CONSUMER GOODS FORUM

– WORKING TOGETHER FOR EFFICIENCY AND POSITIVE CHANGE

A Focus on Implementation

Sustainability

Ethical & Sustainable

Supply Chains

Product Safety

(Global Food

Safety Initiative)

End-to-End Value Chain

Transparency,

Data & Consumer Trust

Health & Wellness

Healthier

Consumers Worldwide

Knowledge and Best Practice Sharing

Global Coverage: 400 Retailers & Manufacturers;

SUSTAINABLE VALUE CHAINS & BUSINESS PRACTICES GLOBALLY

The  CGF  Sustainability  Pillar  

DeforestaGon  ResoluGon    

SOY   PALM  OIL   PAPER  &  PULP   BEEF  

"As  the  Board  of  The  Consumer  Goods  Forum,  we  pledge  to  mobilise  resources  within  our  respec=ve  businesses  to  help  achieve  zero  net  deforestaGon  by  2020.  We  will  achieve  this  both  by  individual  company  ini=a=ves  and  by  working  collec=vely  in  partnership  with  governments  and  NGOs”.  

•  A  Public  Private  Partnership  founded  by  the  US  government  and  CGF.  Announced  at  the  Rio+20  conference  in  June  2012  by  former  US  Secretary  of  State  Hillary  Clinton.

•  Priority  geographies:  South  America,  Indonesia  and  Africa

•  Secretariat  now  hosted  by  the  World  Economic  Forum.

•  ObjecNve:  “to  collecNvely  sNmulate  the  direcNon  of    

capital  towards  sustainable,  low  carbon  growth  and    away  from  acNviNes  that  undermine  it”.

•  Developed  the  ‘SoS  CommodiNes  Compact’,  seUng  

out  commitments  made  by  adopNng  banking  insNtuNons.  

CerGficaGon  and  Zero  Net  DeforestaGon  by  2020  –  next  steps    

o  PoliGcal  and  corporate  momentum  is  acceleraGng  

ü  Corporate  commitments  and  Paris  Agreement  aTer  COP21  send  strong  signals  to  the  marketplace

  ü  Out  of  the  250  leading  companies  60%    have  forest-­‐related  policies,  7%  

of  these  have  full  cross-­‐commodity  commitments    o  Key  building  blocks    towards  zero  net  deforestaGon  in  companies’  operaGons.    

ü  Traceability.  Complex  and  obscure  supply  chains  need  more  collaboraNve  efforts  

ü  Scale  CerGficaGon  in  parallel  to  Landscape  Approaches  and  land  use  planning  

ü  Social  inclusion  and  Forced  Labour  issues    

ü  PrevenGng  leakages:  stronger  forest  governance,  including  

strengthening  current  moratoria  to  minimize  displacement  of  deforestaNon  across  commodiNes,  jurisdicNons  and  ecosystems  

CerGficaGon  schemes  implementaGon  

 ü  Cer=fica=on  schemes  are  less  effecGve  in  cuHng  deforesta=on  than  company-­‐led  moratoria    

o  cerNficaNon  schemes  “are  based  on  consensus  and  have  different  requirements  for  reducing  deforesta5on”,  whereas  the  moratorium  are  more  black  and  white  –  stop  deforestaNon  or  lose  business.

 ü  Challenges  to  SCALE  cer=fica=on    

o  It  usually  operates  at  the  produc=on  unit.    (Excep5ons  –  MSC  effec5vely  has  the  fishery  landscape  as  a  unit  of  cer5fica5on;  group  cer5fica5on  models  bring  together  producers  in  geographic  proximity  in  ways  that  can  have  landscape  impacts;  and  RSPO  is  pilo5ng  jurisdic5onal  approaches  with  cer5fica5on  at  the  core.    But  these  are  s5ll  excep5ons).    

o  Balance  the  need  for  cost  effecNve  and  scalable  models  with  tools  that  offer  sufficient  levels  of  assurance.    This  will  require  

adaptaNon  and  innovaNon  by  the  standards/cerNficaNon  systems  as  well  as  collaboraNon  with  other  sustainability  tools  (ISEAL).

ü  PotenNal  Next  steps:  Landscape  Approach  (Mul5-­‐stakeholder  and  cross-­‐sectoral  land  use  planning  and  management)  and  JurisdicNonal  Approach  Landscape  approach  using  jurisdisc5onal  boundaries  

Thank  you  

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