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RSB and Bioledger developed a case study on the potential of a blockchain database to support traceability of biofuel and its feedstocks and overcome the vulnerabilities identified by a recent fraud investigation in the Netherlands. The proposed solution — a blockchain database that enables verifiable proof of origin, secure consignment creation, process simplification, audit efficiency, data integrity, and central governance — was prototyped and trialled with project partners to process a total of 1,927,906 litres of feedstock, accurately representing real-life commercial and operational processes in 2020. The project was made possible by a grant from the ISEAL Innovations Fund, which is supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).

Since 2017, RSB and Equitable Origin (EO) have been working jointly on a project funded through the ISEAL Innovations Fund to research and develop a means of addressing the challenge of the meaningful implementation of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC). The key output from this project is draft framework for a tool that can be used to aid the verification process. The tool is multi-sided, facilitating a “co-audit” process that is jointly implemented by the assurance provider and by the affected Indigenous Peoples’ community.

A group of stakeholder participants near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 2020 to develop a set of scenarios for the sustainable biofuels sector in Ethiopia. The workshop was specifically designed to be a collective participatory process attended by some of these stakeholders, as opposed to generating expert-led scenarios.