Do voluntary sustainability standards for agricultural production contribute towards climate mitigation and adaptation?

• Main Author: Li, Yang
• Other Authors: Lee Ser Huay Janice Teresa
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2025
• Subjects: Agricultural Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Agriculture; Voluntary sustainability standards; Climate mitigation and adaptation; Palm oil standards; Cocoa standards; Standards assessments
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/183514
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since the mid-1990s, Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSSs) have rapidly expanded across sectors, with agriculture accounting for the largest share–152 out of over 400 active VSSs globally. As key governance tools in the global agricultural value chain, agricultural VSSs have been widely studied...