Equitable Earth: A Revolutionary Shift in the Voluntary Carbon Market
Equitable Earth: A Revolutionary Shift in the Voluntary Carbon Market
Equitable Earth: A Revolutionary Shift in the Voluntary Carbon Market
Facilitated local and global stakeholder participation and co-led the design of the Equitable Earth (EqE) Quality & Impacts Framework, building the transparency and quality to bring climate finance directly to Indigenous Peoples and local community land stewards.
Sustainable Food Lab: Sustainable Livelihoods for Sustainable Farmers
Equitable Earth: A Revolutionary Shift in the Voluntary Carbon Market
Equitable Earth: A Revolutionary Shift in the Voluntary Carbon Market
Designed research and analytical tools with the Sustainable Food Lab (SFL) and Fortune 500 and Global 500 companies to move towards ambitious sustainability goals - improving returns on investment (ROI), resiliency, and worker wages for sustainable and regenerative farms.
Everland LLC: REDD+ Due Diligence
Equitable Earth: A Revolutionary Shift in the Voluntary Carbon Market
ISEAL Alliance: Guiding Landscape-scale Sustainability Initiatives
Created and tested a due diligence framework with Everland LLC that systematically linked REDD+ project outcomes to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to ensure that Verified Emission Reductions (VRRs) credits are material, credible and measurably aligned.
ISEAL Alliance: Guiding Landscape-scale Sustainability Initiatives
Equitable Earth: A Revolutionary Shift in the Voluntary Carbon Market
ISEAL Alliance: Guiding Landscape-scale Sustainability Initiatives
Advised ISEAL Alliance members - sustainability standards and organizations - on building the credibility of claims in landscape-scale initiatives, through integrated assessment guidance and a primer on multi-stage Free Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC).
IDH: Roadmap on Living Wage
Living Income Community of Practice: Farmer ROI
Textile Exchange: Sustainability Standards
Galvanized businesses and certification systems to advance on living wages across supply chains by designing and facilitating uptake of action-oriented analytical and strategic tools for a large IDH multi-stakeholder initiative (2019-2023).
Textile Exchange: Sustainability Standards
Living Income Community of Practice: Farmer ROI
Textile Exchange: Sustainability Standards
Technically reviewed and advised the revision of this leading sustainability standard for humane, environmentally responsible and socially just supply chains, using on an integrated systems approach that emphasizes risk management.
Living Income Community of Practice: Farmer ROI
Living Income Community of Practice: Farmer ROI
Living Income Community of Practice: Farmer ROI
Developed several papers and guidance on measuring income gaps of certified farmers to advise the strategic programing of sustainable agriculture organizations. Living Income Community of Practice (LICoP) Technical Advisory Committee (2017-2024).
Aldi: Worker-led Verficiation
Living Income Community of Practice: Farmer ROI
Living Income Community of Practice: Farmer ROI
Piloted an innovative, worker-led living wage verification process for banana farms, in partnership with ALDI SOUTH Group, ALDI Nord, Banana Link, Dole, Grupo Iren and Banafem - including building capacity and facilitating dialogs among stakeholders.
AIM Progress: Living Wage Playbook
AIM Progress: Living Wage Playbook
AIM Progress: Living Wage Playbook
Wrote the Living Wage Playbook for AIM-Progress and its 48 member companies. The “how to guide” helps members build and implement living wage strategies for their employees and across their supply chains.
GIZ: Worker Compensation
AIM Progress: Living Wage Playbook
AIM Progress: Living Wage Playbook
Analyze employment and compensation systems across dozens of supply chains for GIZ and corporate partners to make informed and meaningful investments to improve worker wages.
Impact Buying: Auditor Training
AIM Progress: Living Wage Playbook
Impact Buying: Auditor Training
Developed and delivered auditor training programs with Impact Buying Academy that built capacity of over a dozen of Validation Verification Bodies (VVBs) on living wage auditing to strengthen accountability.
Burton: Civil Society Engagement
AIM Progress: Living Wage Playbook
Impact Buying: Auditor Training
Develop policy on engaging civil society for Burton, aligned with their membership requirements for the Fair Labor Association (FLA)
Grocery retailers: Worker compensation
Grocery retailers: Worker compensation
Grocery retailers: Worker compensation
Validated worker wages and living wage gaps among fruit suppliers for over a dozen Dutch and German grocery retailers engaged in national collaborative commitments.
Living Wage for US: Board of Directors
Grocery retailers: Worker compensation
Grocery retailers: Worker compensation
Principal Jessica Grillo co-led the early-stage development of the first US living wage certification system, for which she is a proud member of the Board of Directors.
