The Sustainable Commodity Initiative (SCI)

The Sustainable Commodity Initiative recently launched a new Web site to highlight its activities and progress in more depth. The site includes information on the regions and sectors within which the SCI is working, project status updates, news stories, upcoming events and recent SCI publications.

Please visit the SCI's Web site.

Key SCI projects:

• The Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA)
• The Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST)
• The Committee on Sustainability Assessment (SCAN)
• The State of Sustainability Initiatives (SSI)

Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST)

The Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) is an association of socially oriented financial service providers and other stakeholders committed to promoting improved access to finance for producers of sustainable commodities. More specifically, FAST aims to improve producer access to "small and medium enterprise trade finance" by providing a central point of contact, cooperation and information between financial service providers, producers and related stakeholders in international supply chains. To become a member of FAST or learn more, visit the FAST Web site.