IDH – Sustainable Trade Initiative
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What is it?
The IDH – Sustainable Trade Initiative convenes, co-creates, and co-finances inclusive and sustainable solutions that enable people in business, investment, and government to create value for people and the planet.
The IDH brings public-private stakeholders together, building trust, aligning different interests, and creating a common language and understanding of the most pressing sustainability issues in a sector or a region.
- Step 1 – Identify the challenge
- Step 2 – Assess the environmental footprint
- Step 3 – Verify self-assessed data
- Step 4 – Reduce the footprint
- Step 5 – Share learnings across stakeholders
What is it?
The IDH Roadmap on Product Environmental Footprint is a strategic framework designed to guide agri commodities sectors in reducing the environmental footprint of specific products.
It aims to support each sector to prepare for upcoming European legislation. It is also aligned with the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) targets, thus empowering agri commodities sectors to set and achieve ambitious goals for reducing environmental impact.
It consists of five key steps and actions that need to be taken to address environmental challenges, promote sustainability, and protect natural resources.
To optimize and scale up its use the Roadmap on Product Environmental Footprint is aligned and shared across various sector initiatives hosted or supported by IDH, including aquaculture and its use of feed under the IDH Aquaculture Working Group on Environmental Footprint and tool.
What is it?
SourceUp is a platform that links agri-commodity companies with multi-stakeholder initiatives in producing regions.
SourceUp helps companies to source large volumes of commodities in line with their sustainability commitments at a competitive scale and price by bringing together credible sustainability coalitions in production areas, called Compacts.
Buyers of agricultural and forestry commodities can directly or indirectly support these Compacts to deliver on your sustainability commitments.
A Compact is a collaborative effort that helps local stakeholders in producing regions to work on sustainability issues and help transform agricultural production systems far beyond what individual producers, local governments, civil society organizations, or traders can do alone.
SourceUp also identifies these initiatives for a range of commodities, including soy, oil palm, wheat, and maize, their location, and sustainability themes (e.g., forests and natural ecosystems, labor, etc.,).
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