Can Non‐state Governance ‘Ratchet Up’ Global Environmental Standards? Lessons from the Forest Sector

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Eco-innovation, sustainable supply chains and environmental performance in European industries (2017, unknown): “…of private global governance, as in global standards and environmental certifications, that are voluntarily adopted by firms to promote sustainability in production processes in firms belonging to different countries and sectors (Cashore et al., 2007; von Geibler et al., 2010; von Geibler, 2013).”
From Employment Relations to Consumption Relations: Balancing Labor Governance in Global Supply Chains (2014, background): “Multi-stakeholder standards have often been pioneered by social movement-based NGOs (Bartley, 2007; Boström & Hallström, 2010) that have built regulatory infrastructures to address transnational issues (Cashore et al., 2007).”
Assembling an experimentalist regime: Transnational governance interactions in the forest sector (2014, background): “…organizations have focused increasingly on combating illegal logging, an endemic problem in many countries, which depresses prices for legally harvested wood and undercuts the adoption of sustainable forestry practices (Humphreys 2006: ch. 7; Cashore et al. 2007; Lawson & MacFaul 2010).”
Sustainability governance of chains and networks: a review and future outlook (2015, background): “The technical focus of MSI meetings has not allowed for wider sustainability concerns, often couched inpolitical and social terms, to emerge in collective debates (Cashore et al., 2007).”