Take Up LLC
MSC supported the development of a large-scale afforestation project in Kyrgyzstan, helping restore degraded land while creating long-term climate, biodiversity and community benefits.
Fit for Biodiversity
MCS supported food-sector companies in integrating biodiversity into their strategies and supply chains through practical tools, incentives and biodiversity credit analysis. Project partners include Food for Biodiversity e.V., the Lake Constance Foundation, Global Nature Fund and Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen. The project is funded by the EU LIFE Programme, Ministeriums für Ernährung, Ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz Baden-Württemberg, and Rentenbank, sponsored by Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt, with Nestlé and EDEKA as premium partners.
Acelen Renewables
Comprehensive analysis of macaúba as a sustainable biofuel feedstock, assessing its non-food crop characteristics and relevance under EU RED III Annex IX criteria.
ClimatePal
MSC developed ClimatePal as a robust carbon crediting scheme, drawing on its market and certification expertise to meet global integrity standards.
German Coffee Association: Ear4U
MCS supported the outreach and adoption of the Ear4U grievance mechanism for the German coffee sector, developed under the German Coffee Association, through stakeholder engagement in key producing countries.
GRAS Risk Assessment Services (GRAS)
MCS and GRAS developed a comprehensive, country- and sector-specific abstract risk analysis methodology aligned with key due diligence regulations (e.g., LkSG and EUDR).
4C Services: Add-On Advancing Equity, Empowering Women
MCS developed a solution for 4C System Users to address the need for, and the increasing demand to improve, gender equality in coffee supply chains. The 4C Gender Equality (GE) Add-On is a set of practical principles and criteria on gender equity for coffee-producing groups.
4C Services: Guidance on the Protection of Children’s Rights
MCS developed the 4C Guidance on the Protection of Children’s Rights to help 4C System Users strengthen their internal management systems through due diligence on child labor, while also supporting auditors in identifying and reporting child labor cases.
Food Security Standard with Welthungerhilfe (WHH)
MCS and WHH partnered to establish the Food Security Standard (FSS) to support agricultural supply chains with human rights due diligence (HRDD) and to verify the right to food in their supply chains.
Conservation International
This project focused on developing nationally recognized farm-to-gate GHG emission baselines for major coffee-producing countries (Brazil, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, and Peru) based on harmonized primary data collection and recognized carbon accounting methodologies