Enabling Landscapes: INTERHOLCO's Sustainability Report 2017
Interholco presents its first stand-alone Sustainability Report simultaneously in Baar, Switzerland and in Vancouver, Canada, where the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) General Assembly 2017 has just been kicked off. Interholco is an active participant at this General Assembly. To find out more: https://interholco.com/images/pdfs/Enabling-Landscapes-INTERHOLCO-Sustainability-Report-2017-.pdf
Interholco presents its first stand-alone Sustainability Report simultaneously in Baar, Switzerland and in Vancouver, Canada, where the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) General Assembly 2017 has just been kicked off. Interholco is an active participant at this General Assembly.
To find out more: https://interholco.com/images/pdfs/Enabling-Landscapes-INTERHOLCO-Sustainability-Report-2017-.pdf
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Working Across <strong>Landscapes</strong><br />
‘Conservation and sustainable management of forests in<br />
Central Africa contribute to the majority of the 17<br />
Sustainable Development Goals. There is a clear coherence<br />
between them.’<br />
ANdRé vAN HEEmStRA<br />
Chairman of UN Global Compact Network, Netherlands<br />
Working in the Congo Basin means, first and foremost, working with the Congo Basin.<br />
It involves, embracing the diversity in needs, expectations and priorities as well as local<br />
conditions. Responses need to be multi-dimensional. To find, develop and implement<br />
solutions, we need to look at the wider landscape and, we need to connect all people<br />
involved. Effectively we are not working only within a bio-geographic landscape, but in a<br />
social landscape with all its complexities, in an environmental landscape with its<br />
intricate biodiversity linkages and in an economic landscape with its interactive<br />
linkages to local, regional and global markets.<br />
On 25 September 2015, the United Nations adopted a set of 17 Sustainable<br />
Development Goals.<br />
The Sustainable Development Goals are truly global goals, addressing the North and<br />
the South, involving all sectors of industry and business, and calling on all groups of<br />
societies from indigenous peoples and local communities to international<br />
organizations and NGOs.<br />
Obviously, the solutions to the challenges tropical forests are facing cannot be found<br />
within the forestry sector alone. Each of the landscapes we work with extends far<br />
beyond the business unit we manage. The social, environmental and economic<br />
landscapes neither exist in parallel nor overlap completely, but are highly dynamic and<br />
intricately intertwined.<br />
Our team as well as customers and stakeholders help us understand issues beyond<br />
our business and inspire our management approach towards Intact Forest<br />
<strong>Landscapes</strong> in which people enjoy social well-being, environmental resources are<br />
safeguarded and economic business is viable and sustainable.<br />
25 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT <strong>2017</strong> INTERHOLCO