Has certification lost its way?

Changing Markets’ research puts certification schemes in the spotlight

Nusa Urbancic, campaigns director, Changing Markets, debates the challenges for certification schemes and the findings of the NGO’s recent report – False Promise of Certification – with Innovation Forum’s Toby Webb. In the report Changing Markets focused on schemes in the textiles, seafood and palm oil sectors and found, Urbancic argues, that some scheme provide too much cover for companies rather than concentrating on pushing for environmental improvements.