Bani Bains

Bani Bains is leads communications and outreach at the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber, a multistakeholder initiative aiming to address the sustainability issues arising around the natural rubber supply chain. Before this, she worked at the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) in India and Singapore on communications strategies for the organization's multiple audiences.

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Presentation

Integrating sustainability into NR supply chain operations

As our industry prepares for EUDR compliance, industry-wide sustainability standards are being deliberated upon at the Global Platform for Sustainable Natural Rubber (GPSNR), which represents 60% of the world’s natural rubber demand. This presentation will focus on the learnings from the pilots done for GPSNR's newly approved Assurance Model, which gives the industry a standardized stage-by-stage process through which companies can commit to, implement and verify strong sustainability standards and practices in their operations. It will also cover how the assurance model can support players at different points in their sustainability journey and potentially support legislation compliance.