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| Founded | Project of UNCTAD: 2005 Independent Non-profit: 2012 |
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| Founders | Daniele Giovannucci, Jason Potts |
| Type | Non-profit, NGO |
| Focus | Scientific measurement of social, economic, and environmental factors affecting agriculture crops and communities. |
| Website | http://thecosa.org |
The Committee on Sustainability Assessment (COSA) is a global consortium of development institutions that work collaboratively to advance sustainability learning with systematic and science-based measurement. COSA applies a pragmatic and collective approach for using scientific methods to develop indicators,[1] tools, and technologies to measure the distinct social, environmental, and economic impacts and are applied in performance monitoring, evaluation, return on investment (ROI) calculation, and impact assessment.[2][3][4] COSA has a public mission to open its scientific methods and metrics up to widespread use.
COSA's approach and indicators have a basis in internationally recognized accords and normative references such as those of the International Labour Organization, the World Health Organization Guidelines for Water Quality, the International Finance Corporation, the United Nations Global Compact, Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.[5]
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- ^ Schmitz, Carsten (2014). Voluntary Standard Systems: A Contribution to Sustainable Development. p. 376.
- ^ Dalal-Clayton, Barry; Sadler, Barry (2012). Sustainability Appraisal: A Sourcebook and Reference Guide to International Experience. p. 644.
- ^ "Recorded GFAR webinar : Metrics in Agriculture, Impact Measurement and Impact Tools | AIMS". aims.fao.org. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ^ "ISEAL, COSA and Sustainable Food Lab partnering to improve smallholder supply chains". Archived from the original on 2017-01-02. Retrieved 2017-01-02.