FOSTERING CLIMATE RESILIENCE THROUGH QUALITY AND STANDARDS
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges of our time. Nearly half the world’s population is highly vulnerable to climate impacts, from unpredictable weather patterns to melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, floods and droughts. Thirty percent of the population is exposed to deadly heat stress, which is projected to rise to 50–70 percent by the year 2100.
With the effects of climate change rapidly intensifying, international organizations, national governments, non-governmental organizations and local communities are tasked with collaborating to find innovative adaptation and mitigation solutions.
With the understanding that quality and standards can significantly contribute to mitigating the negative effects of climate change, as well as obstacles stemming from digital transformation and due diligence laws, the Global Quality and
Standards Programme (GQSP) aims at developing comprehensive solutions for common quality and standards related challenges. It achieves this through knowledge dissemination at the global level and focuses on specific value chains at the country level to provide targeted technical support that not only helps to overcome compliance challenges and facilitate market access for specific products with demonstrable results over a project lifespan but also has a “knock-on” effect in terms of more generic quality infrastructure development.
On a global scale, the GQSP Indonesia actively participates in the development of Seafood MAP, initiated by GSSI and supported by UNIDO, FAO and more than 90 stakeholders worldwide since its inception in 2019. The Seafood MAP platform is a public-private partnership designed to empower seafood producers of all sizes to share their sustainability achievements, regardless of size or destination. It is a novel approach to map and accelerate fisheries and aquaculture pathways to sustainability, fostering fisheries and aquaculture sustainability through storytelling and measuring progress against the SDGs. This platform provides global producers, including those in Indonesia, with opportunities to learn, connect to markets, access technology solutions, and explore investment prospects.
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