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csr Corporate Social Responsibility. Corporations have an ethical duty to ensure that the people working for them, or in areas where they ate, are not adversely affected by corporate actions. This is a form of self-regulation that positions that corporation as 'responsible' in the sense of being aware of, and proactive about, its potential impacts.

awards See also #myangat. New awards should honour herders who successfully breed goats using sustainable practices.

fair trade Ethical and sustainable production can be encouraged successfully through market-based interventions that provide premiums to producers in exchange for adherence to fair trade principles. The premium may be an accounting for the added costs to producers, in addition to operating as an incentive. An international organization will be the lead actor in this relationship.

biodiversity offsets According to IUCN, these are 'measurable conservation outcomes designed to compensate for adverse and unavoidable impacts of projects, in addition to prevention and mitigation measures already implemented'. 'The aim of offsets is to achieve No Net Loss (NNL) and preferably a Net Gain (NG) of biodiversity when projects take place.'

environmental accounting Accounting for environmental costs can guide sustainable production. See for example the EP&L model used by Kering and Stella McCartney. #biodiversity-offsets is also used by Rio Tinto.

standards The lack of standards contributes to the poor quality and unsustainable production of cashmere. The introduction of product standards may impose accountability on producers and favour quality over quantity. May be linked to #fair-trade as a process for implementing standards as a market-based intervention. See references to specific certification marks.

audits Ethics and sustainability can and should be ensured through regular audits of suppliers, undertaken by lead companies.