A note on the ISEAL Alliance & what private standards in the GHG industry can learn from its Code of Practice for Setting Social & Environmental Standards (Would you like to know more about who Probus Sigma is? Please see here .) The International Standard Environmental Accreditation and Labelling (ISEAL) Alliance is a "formal collaboration of leading international standard-setting and conformity assessment organizations focused on social and environmental issues". [1] The ISEAL Alliance was established only ten years ago by a group of "pioneering group of sustainability standard-setters" [2] (namely the Forest Stewardship Council, International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements, Fairtrade and Marine Stewardship Council) and has since grown to incorporate four additional organizations. What is interesting about ISEAL Alliance is the cross-industry reach of its members suggesting that while the sectors covered can differ considerably, the systems, objectives and overriding motive of sustainability are constant. There is in this structure both a common purpose and an inferred level of accountability. In January 2006 the ISEAL Alliance released its Code of Good Practice for Setting Social and Environmental Standards. The objective for publishing this Code of Practice was to provide "a benchmark to assist standard-setting organizations to improve how they develop social and environmental standards." [3] Probus Sigma recently completed extensive comparative research into the existing private standards in place within the GHG industry. Part of this research included comparative analysis against the ISEAL Code of Practice. While there is currently no legal obligation for private standards to comply with