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VIVE Climate Action gains stamp of approval from Circular Ecology

The VIVE Programme is proud to share an exciting update - VIVE Climate Action’s carbon foot printing tool has recently undergone a third-party independent verification by Circular Ecology, which has positively established VCA’s conformance with robust carbon foot printing methodologies in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector, specifically the PAS 2050:2011 standard…

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Celebrating 10 Years of VIVE: A Decade of Sustainable Supply Chain Innovation

In 2024, the VIVE Sustainable Supply Programme marks a major milestone—its 10-year anniversary. What began in 2014 as a vision to ensure sustainability, transparency and traceability in sugar supply chains has grown into a pioneering programme that touches many industries, helps producers implement best practice and helps multinational companies reach their sustainability targets. VIVE’s journey…

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Suntory Holdings Ltd and KTIS launch low carbon farming project in Thailand in collaboration with The VIVE Programme

The VIVE Programme, a leading voluntary sustainability programme managed by CZ (Czarnikow) and Intellync,  has today announced it has  launched  a three-year low carbon farming project for sugarcane in Thailand -  in collaboration with Suntory Holdings Limited and Kaset Thai International Sugar Corporation Public Co Ltd (KTIS). The farming sector offers significant opportunities for carbon…

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Summerpride, Largest Pineapple Producer in South Africa, join VIVE Fruit Module

The VIVE Programme is excited to announce that Summerpride has joined as our second participant in the VIVE Fruit Module, increasing our scope as a multi-commodity, continuous improvement programme. This delivers the advantage of standardisation across a range of products and reduces the assessment burden fatigue with cross-commodity reporting in a consolidated offering. Summerpride…

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Lantic Sugar joins Buyers Supporting VIVE as part of their commitment to source 100% sustainable raw sugar

We are delighted to welcome Lantic Inc. (Lantic) to Buyers Supporting VIVE, through which they support the sustainable sourcing of VIVE raw sugar to their refineries in Canada. "At Lantic, we have an ambitious target to source 100% of our raw sugar supply from producers who follow verified or certified sustainable agricultural practices. We are excited to…

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World’s first sustainable sugar supply chain collaboration leads way for sustainable future in global trade

Amidst current concerns over the future of food security and supply chain resilience, the world’s first sustainable trade partnership, led by Czarnikow, was completed today (Wednesday 5th August 2020 BST).  By bringing together all supply chain participants which put sustainability at the core of its business - the trade and shipment of 50,000 metric tonnes…

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Santa Terezinha demonstrates their commitment to continuous improvement through year-on-year improvements

Santa Terezinha, one of the largest sugar producers in Brazil and the biggest producer in Paraná State, has once again achieved the VIVE Claim Level across all of its facilities participating within VIVE. Looking to differentiate their operations and products through their sustainable endeavour, Santa Terezinha’s Tapejara, Terra Rica, Paranacity mills and supplying farms have…

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