The Interaction of Private and Public Governance: The Case of Sustainability Standards for Palm Oil
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The Interaction of Private and Public Governance: The Case of Sustainability Standards for Palm Oil Clara Brandi1 Accepted: 20 September 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract By providing insights into the interaction between private-driven and public-driven governance initiatives in the context of the “Roundtable of Sustainable Palm Oil” (RSPO) and the “Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil” (ISPO), this article sheds new light the interaction between private and public governance. It investigates how the relationship between the RSPO and the ISPO evolves over time and who and what drives this evolution. While the interaction between these standard schemes has initially largely been characterized by competition, it has become more collaborative and also coordinated in nature. This article argues that the experimentalist architecture of palm oil governance has fostered mechanisms for coordination across public and private certification schemes and has helped to join up the separate components of the regime complex through productive interactions. At the same time, several gaps and challenges remain, especially in light of the different interests of the multiple public and private actors involved in palm oil. Keywords Sustainability standards · RSPO · ISPO · Transnational interlinkages · Experimental governance · Transnational regime complex · Palm oil · Indonesia Résumé En fournissant des informations sur la façon dont les initiatives de gouvernance publiques et privées interagissent dans le contexte de la «Table ronde sur l’huile de palme durable» (RSPO) et «l’huile de palme durable indonésienne» (ISPO), cet article offre un nouvel éclairage sur l’interaction entre gouvernance publique et gouvernance privée. Il étudie l’évolution de la relation entre la RSPO et l’ISPO au fil du temps, ainsi que les acteurs et les facteurs qui sont les moteurs de cette évolution. Bien que l’interaction entre ces programmes standards ait été initialement largement caractérisée par la concurrence, elle est devenue plus collaborative, et plus coordonnée par nature. Cet article soutient que l’architecture expérimentale de la gouvernance * Clara Brandi Clara.Brandi@die‑gdi.de 1
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de l’huile de palme a favorisé des mécanismes de coordination entre les systèmes de certification publics et privés et a permis de réunir les composantes distinctes du complexe de régimes grâce à des interactions productives. Dans le même temps, plusieurs lacunes et défis subsistent, en particulier à la lumière des intérêts divergents des multiples acteurs publics et privés impliqués dans l’industrie de l’huile de palme.
Introduction Transnational business governance—for example, certification schemes for fish or palm oil, fair trade labels or accounting and transparency standards—has become more widespread and important, both as a novel mode of regulation to promote sustainable development and as a study subject of scholarly research. Transn
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