Agenda

53rd Meeting of the Expert Panel on the Social Environmental and Economic Performance of Cotton Production (SEEP)

Wednesday, September 28, 2022

In person and Virtual

1:30 PM CET (Bremen Time, GMT+2)

1. Welcome and Introductions – Allan Williams
2. Adoption of the Agenda – Allan Williams
3. The future of sustainability data requirements

• Market drivers – ‘Identity’ cottons (Leon Picon)
• Requests for production data – Kontoor (Lorena Ruiz)
• Is it possible to define threshold limits (optimum limits) on sustainable use of inputs related to GHG emissions, ETL of pesticide load, Deforestation, Fertilizer use and Water use (at levels of farm unit or regional or National or Global) that the SEEP panel would recommend for each of these inputs/metrics, which the App could suggest as the way forward to users (Keshav Kranthi)
• The European approach (Elke Hortmeyer + ICAC)

4. Discussion: What should the priority to focus on be?
5. Structure of SEEP: what is the best way to ensure we have the resources required to undertake the identified priorities?
6. Any other business

Please see below the ZOOM Link for those that cannot attend the meeting in person:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86474478890?pwd=OEE3R00rbmdKYVhlL3lCYTFNNU5zdz09

Meeting-ID: 864 7447 8890

Code: 967314