You raise some interesting points @BBurde thanks. :-)

For me, getting a phone that has had been under scrutiny all the way from concept to production to delivery would certainly be an added bonus. That also includes thought going into inevitable recycling etc.

I'm not sure it would make too much difference to me whether certification was achieved initially, as long as the company could offer some kind of other assurances. For example ensuring fairtrade certification was attained all the way down the line could add a lot of extra cost to a small startup like Jolla and would no doubt be transferred to the end user.

I suppose this is the big question - would the majority of potential Jolla owners be willing to spend a bit extra per handset to have fairtrade etc certification?

I would certainly hope that when Jolla are producing much larger volumes of handsets and able to absorb those extra costs, they look at some kind of international fairtrade certification. In the meantime, as long as their practices are approved and certified by current trading/manufacturing standards in the applicable countries, then I suppose that's a start.