FSI members including bloom producer , bargainer , and external retailers ( 90 player from 66 member formation ) gathered online for the General Assembly 2021 ( Tuesday 2nd February ) to ponder on the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative ’s 2020 achievements and fix raw targets as part of their bluff and challenging 2025 strategical plan for a ‘ responsible and vaporous supply chain ’ .
Progress towards 90 % responsible sourcing reaches new highsFSI is a market - drive initiative , aligning outside floriculture stakeholders to collaboratively drive sustainable production and craft . From a business plan conception in 2013 , FSI develop into a leading sustainability first step by 2020 . Overall preliminary resultant from sourcing measurements show increases towards 90 % for plants and 70 % for flowers , a steady growth over a 5 - year period while at the same time adding more and more volumes . This demonstrates the sector ’s evolution and FSI members are now focusing on further improving the monitoring of volumes and increase use of reporting instrument .
" What connects us all is the love life for our sphere , the honey for our planet and the dear for our children . Achieving sustainability requires a mentality of communion , which is why we are proud to be a part of FSI . " Michiel de Haan , Royal Lemkes CEO .
Supporting continuous advance and upright practiceThe General Assembly 2021 mark an update on the FSI ’s ongoing benchmarking activities and projects . FSI also highlighted projects , let in its Wild Harvest initiative . Aiming to increase foil and sustainability in the floral chain across a three - year period , the task will support implementation of improved harvest practice to assist husband vulnerable landscapes , sequester carbon and safeguard bread and butter within the flowered Ernst Boris Chain . Together with IDH ( the Sustainable Trade Initiative ) , a Remote Auditing project in response to the core of the Covid-19 pandemic was launch , encouraging uptake of novel distant auditing techniques to guarantee sustainability assurance under crisis atmospheric condition .
launch FSI 2025Building on FSI ’s establish objective lens , the unexampled FSI 2025 ambition will promote transparence and a responsible floriculture supplying string , by path of responsible product & craft , responsible demeanour , and integrated reportage . Under these three pillar , FSI have localize four main objectives to collide with by 2025 . They include:1/ the widening of the 90 % responsibly create and trade in volumes dream to include young environmental and societal aspects;2/ A reduction of the carbon paper step for selected production by 2025;3/ A Reduction of the living remuneration gap of doer at farm level by 2025;4/ Encouraging FSI members to report on progress and integrate due diligence reporting by 2025 .
To support members in reaching their common dream , FSI will stay a neutral and not - for - profits , multi - stakeholder organisation , force to tackle sector - specific challenge through multi - stakeholder initiatives . basically , this sentiency of collective responsibility and proactivity aims to give the floriculture sector as a forward - creative thinker in construct a better future for our planet and our people .
Welcoming novel members and Board representativesThanks to its outreach efforts throughout 2020 , FSI welcome 8 new members during this General Assembly . Maarten Banki , Sustainable Development and Quality Manager at Royal FloraHolland , was elected as board representative for the Production North Stakeholder Group , while the Production ( sub- ) Tropicals Stakeholder Group will be symbolise by Augusto Solano , chief operating officer of Asocolflores . Laura Jungmann , former Board illustration for Retail on behalf of Albert Heijn , passed over her duty to Erling Ølstad , CEO of MesterGronn .
