Traceability identifies origin but cannot substitute for rigorous due diligence, participation or fair benefit distribution.
Certification coverage does not establish improved outcomes.
Investigating and addressing impacts or claims with substantive verification beyond formal compliance.
Investigating and addressing impacts or claims with substantive verification beyond formal compliance.
Knowing where a material came from is not sufficient due diligence.
The definition above is used to organise this collection. The passages below show how the idea appears in discussion.
Analyst applies. Traceability identifies origin but cannot substitute for rigorous due diligence, participation or fair benefit distribution.
Certification coverage does not establish improved outcomes.
Qualifies the boundary. Knowing where a material came from is not sufficient due diligence.
Certification coverage does not establish improved outcomes.
No event-wide agreement is inferred from coding. Compare the attributed examples and boundaries; co-occurrence is not evidence of agreement.
Knowing where a material came from is not sufficient due diligence.
Knowing where a record or material came from does not demonstrate that harmful impacts were investigated or addressed.
Meeting a formal standard may support due diligence, but does not by itself establish substantive investigation or remedy.
Co-occurrence describes coding, not equivalence, causation or agreement.