Dear colleagues, Being the first to address this list in 2014, I wish you all a very happy New Year and the best of luck in all of your professional and personal endeavours.
A few weeks ago, I launched a query about transnational NGO initiatives on sustainable resources management (see my mail below). I compile your responses here and will keep you updated about the results of our project. Best regards, Sander The following NGO initiatives were mentioned by you: * Greenpeace-Asia's DETOX campaign * non-state sustainability certification initiatives that have been initiated by NGOs, including the FSC, MSC, SAI, MAC, RSPO, ASC, Fair Trade, etc. * Accounting Framework for Biogenic CO2 Emissions from Stationary Sources, by the Science Advisory Board * Beat the microbead app, from the Dutch North Sea Foundation and the international Plastic Soup Foundation * The Clean Shipping Index, from the Clean Shipping Coalition * The GreenAward for sustainable ships in ports You've also suggested the following readings: * Gulbrandsen, Lars H. (2010/2012) Transnational Environmental Governance: The Emergence and Effects of the Certification of Forests and Fisheries. Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgard. (especially chapters 1 and 8) * paper<http://www.boell.de/en/content/international-resource-politics> on International Resource Politics done for the Boell Foundation The following projects, with similar questions or methods, were mentioned: * database of transnational climate governance initiatives (TCCG), by Harriett Bulkeley, Stacy VanDeveer and others * Leave It In The Ground, by Tom Princen & Pamela Marten * POLFREE<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/polfree> -- Dr Sander Happaerts, research manager Research Group Sustainable Development HIVA - Research Institute for Work and Society (KU Leuven) Parkstraat 47 box 5300 / BE-3000 Leuven tel +32 16 32 31 03 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sander Happaerts Sent: donderdag 28 november 2013 18:01 To: [email protected] Subject: [gep-ed] NGO initiatives on sustainable resources management Dear colleagues, As part of a broader project<http://steunpuntsumma.be/english>, I am conducting a screening of international non-governmental initiatives on sustainable resources management. More specifically, I am looking for initiatives that 1. are initiated by an NGO, 2. are international in scope (at least going beyond the scale of one state), 3. promote, encourage, support or take concrete steps towards a more sustainable management of a specific resource (e.g. gold) or a specific product (e.g. jeans). I am not aware of any comprehensive studies that have been conducted to provide a list of such initiatives. An OECD study<http://search.oecd.org/officialdocuments/displaydocumentpdf/?doclanguage=en&cote=env/epoc/wgwpr(2007)4/final> of 2008 is an exception, but I strongly predict this is outdated and very selective. Stacy VanDeveer's report Still Digging<http://www.transatlanticacademy.org/publications/still-digging-extractive-industries-resource-curses-and-transnational-governance-anthro> provides an interesting typology of transnational efforts. Another useful starting point are the NGOs that are active within the World Resources Forum<http://www.worldresourcesforum.org/>, but it is hard to identify more than a few very specific projects through that channel. After a limited e-mail survey of a number of ENGOs, we already got an initial list of about 20 initiatives (examples are Cool products for a cool planet, rank@brand, ReDUSE, Sustainable Packaging Coalition, WorldLoop), but most answers I receive do not comply with my third criterion, which aims especially at making a specific resource stream more sustainable throughout multiple stages of its life-cycle. Since I am guessing there are a bunch of initiatives out there that so far have remained below the radar, I would like to benefit from your knowledge. I would greatly appreciate it if you could send me the initiatives that you are aware of, or that you think might be interesting for me. I will share a compilation of answers with the list. Thanks in advance for your help! Sander -- Dr Sander Happaerts, research manager Research Group Sustainable Development HIVA - Research Institute for Work and Society (KU Leuven) Parkstraat 47 box 5300 / BE-3000 Leuven tel +32 16 32 31 03 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
