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Sustainability doesn’t have to be complicated.

 

The sustainability landscape is moving fast with new expectations around credibility and impact. Businesses, regulators, stakeholders, and consumers are all demanding more from sustainability systems.

Sustainability standards are most effective

when they are clear, trustworthy, and outcome-oriented.

Our advisory team collaborates with scheme owners, standard setters, and stakeholders to develop resilient, practical, and credible systems. It is made up of experts from diverse sectors with extensive experience in scheme development, auditing and assessments, and accreditation and certification processes, all possessing hands-on sector experience.

Your global sustainability experts

ASI is the assurance industry leader in voluntary sustainability systems. Our advisors have deep regional knowledge, extensive experience in the VSS sector, access to robust data sets, and an unparalleled ability to tailor solutions to meet your biggest challenges.

Strategic system design

We help you build or strengthen the core design of your assurance system so it is clear, effective and fit for purposes.

  • Development of new schemes in light of their objectives, theory of change, intended claims and stakeholder interest.
  • Review of your standards and assurance systems, to ensure that the language used is consistently understood by auditors and scheme users alike.
  • Review and recommendations for the enhancement of assurance system effectiveness and performance.

Oversight, tools and compliance

Our expert team supports you in checking your system against global best practices and in creating practical tools that make it easier to apply and monitor your standard.

  • Evaluation of your oversight system against best practices, including ISO standards, ISEAL codes and regulations such as the EU Green Claims Directive and EU Empowering Consumers Directive.
  • Development of various tools, including checklists, assurance standards and guidance materials to improve the application of oversight systems.

Data and social integrity

These services help make sure your system uses data well and deliver real and measurable benefits for people and the planet.

  • Evaluate your assurance system from a data perspective – data structure, management, and connections – to prepare it for optimization through data integration.
  • Consultancy in the development and review of social and labor requirements in existing standards.
  • Ensure social standards are met by working with scheme owners and stakeholders to enhance auditors’ capacity, implement risk-based approaches, and set clear criteria and benchmarks.

Their expertise across diverse topics has been invaluable for a small team like ours, and we now consider them part of our extended team, given their deep understanding of our system.

Ana Laura Andreani Technical Unit Manager
Round Table on Responsible Soy (RTRS)

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