Press Release

The Paris climate agreement is newly signed, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are promulgated, and hundreds of major corporations have made deforestation-free and sustainable sourcing commitments.  Now comes the hard part:  implementation.  “All hands on deck” was a mantra of the Paris climate talks. More specifically, reaching those ambitious sustainability and climate goals will depend […]

RA-Cert, the auditing arm of the Rainforest Alliance, has announced a new collaboration agreement with UTZ, a program and label for sustainable farming.

The Rainforest Alliance proudly announces that Nigel Sizer has been named as its new President, effective February 1, 2016. Sizer brings with him 25 years of international experience in natural resources management, most recently as Global Director of the Forests Program at the World Resources Institute. During his tenure at WRI he led a hundred-person […]

This week, the Rainforest Alliance sent a delegation of its leading climate, sustainable forestry and sustainable agriculture experts to the United Nations Paris climate talks (COP21), which run November 30 through December 11. They are available for comment and interviews before, during and after the COP. In Paris these experts will be arguing that a climate agreement […]

At the request of Resolute Forest Products, and with the formal endorsement of the Forest Stewardship Council Canada and the Forest Stewardship Council International, the Rainforest Alliance has agreed to extend the suspension period of a Resolute Forest Products certificate by one additional year.

The Rainforest Alliance has formally launched its search for a president to succeed Tensie Whelan, who will leave the position after a fruitful 25-year association with the sustainable development non-profit organization, including 15 as its executive director and president. Whelan is leaving to establish a new Center for Sustainable Business at New York University Stern […]