Flor de Caña, a luxury rum produced by Bonsucro member, Ingenio San Antonio has won a tender put out by the Nordic alcohol monopoly, Vinmonopolet. As of 1 January 2022, the rum has been stocked on the shelves of all Vinmonopolet’s shops in Norway for a whole year. The tender process Rum is growing in […]
Response to the IPCC report Today the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has published a report on the impact of climate change worldwide. The report comes with several warnings that we may exceed the global temperature increase of 1.5 degrees sooner than scientists originally expected. We are already seeing evidence of the climate emergency […]
The University of Minnesota recently hosted its second collaborative workshop where 15 sustainability experts from around the globe reflected on ways to strengthen sustainability standards in agriculture to deliver additional benefits. The project Outcome based standards – a landscape approach aims to understand, interpret and model how voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) can generate change across […]
The first ever trade of certified sustainable sugarcane credits was completed on the Bonsucro Credit Trading Platform. Forty farmers in Brazil have collectively sold 162,300 tonnes of sustainable sugarcane credits to Barry Callebaut, the global chocolate producer. The farmers belong to the Brazilian sugarcane farming associations, Socicana and Assobari, both of which are committed to […]
