Rainforest Alliance
Budget
€33,003,414
EP Access
1
accredited persons
Staff
1
1 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organization working in more than 60 countries at the intersection of business, agriculture and forests. The organization aims to create a better future for people and nature by making responsible business the new normal. By bringing farmers, forest communities, companies and consumers together it addresses some of the most pressing social and environmental challenges of today. The organization changes the way the world produces, sources and consumes, with a focus on cocoa, coffee, tea, bananas, forest products and palm oil through its certification program, tailored supply chain services, landscape and community work and advocacy.
EU Legislative Interests
The Rainforest Alliance contributes to the following policy areas: agriculture, pesticides, sustainability labeling, public procurement, sustainable development, human rights and related subjects. Key EU policies include: the EU Regulation on Deforestation, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence directive, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting directive, the Forced Labour regulation, the Empowering Consumers directives and the Green Claims directive.
Communication Activities
Position papers on the proposed EU deforestation-free products regulation: https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/resource-item/our-response-to-the-eu-regulation-on-deforestation-free-products/ and https://www.fern.org/fileadmin/uploads/fern/Documents/2022/Including_smallholders_in_the_EU_regulation_on_deforestation-free_products-FINAL.pdf Position papers on the proposed EU corporate sustainability due diligence directive: https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/resource-item/position-of-the-rainforest-alliance-on-the-proposal-for-an-eu-directive-on-corporate-sustainability-due-diligence/ and https://fairtrade-advocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/final.pdf https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/resource-item/how-the-omnibus-package-prevents-the-corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-directive-from-supporting-global-supply-chain-resilience/
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
The Rainforest Alliance is a full member of the ISEAL Alliance, an international non-profit membership organisation that codifies best practices for the design and implementation of international, voluntary social and environmental standards systems. The Rainforest Alliance is taking part in several sustainable cocoa initiatives at the national level, and participates in the EU cocoa coalition, a coalition gathering cocoa stakeholders willing to take ambitious positions on key EU policies. Lastly, the Rainforest Alliance is part of the steering committee of the Accountability Framework Initiative, which is a coalition of NGOs to support companies in how to operationalize supply chain sustainability commitments along with a common approach to monitoring, verifying and reporting on the progress and outcomes.
Organisation Members
Through our certification program, we work with all actors in the supply chain, from smallholder farmers to traders, to global manufactures, retailers and to consumers. These are not members that we represent, but participants in our certification program. This concerns over 5000 companies worldwide and more than 2 million farmers.
Additional Information
Public funding grants were used on specific field projects (restricted funding)
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.