Companies ' interest in making their environmental encroachment transparent is spring up fast . This much became clear last Thursday , March 13 , during the first Tuinbouw Footprint Event ( Greenhouse Footprint Event ) , an initiative of Greenhouse Sustainability . A full house at Op Hodenpijl was pep up by the experience of workfellow in the sector . " Where to part ? Well , just do it ! "
It was the first time that the Tuinbouw Footprint Event submit place , but Greenhouse Sustainability announced beforehand that it want to make it an one-year event . That there is a real want for such a gathering was evident from the high turnout . During the good afternoon , 250 participants were updated on the latest exploitation in the field of footprinting . With this , the care for this topic seems greater than ever .
Henri Potze , managing director of Greenhouse Sustainability , ingeminate : " When we started ten years ago , there was n’t a lot of interest in calculating footprinting , except for a few ' former adopters . ' The tipping point was two to three year ago , when the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive ( CSRD ) came on the schedule . Since then , thing have been moving fast . " Potze in short address current events , where the United States seems to be take a footstep back in terms of climate and sustainability . " Of course , everyone is adopt those developments , but fortunately , everything in Europe continues as usual . So permit ’s emphasize the positive thing because we are really doing swell things together here . "
Not an obligation but an opportunityThose beautiful thing are accept place at Colours of Nature , Houwenplant , and Porta Nova , among others . The three floriculture companies shared their experiences during the Tuinbouw Footprint Event . Mark Zwinkels of Colors of Nature , for instance , express the ambition that all gerberas within this collective will be grown with geothermic heat in five years ' time . Moreover , according to him , footprinting should not be comprehend as an obligation , but as an chance . " Let ’s make the step from have to need to . "
Porta Nova is already put this into practice . The rose nursery decided to switch to wrap energy after footprint computing . " We did wait that switching to scent vim would insure a reduction in terms of mood change , but what we did not see number was that this would be a 95 percent reduction and that a like effect would be seen in other impingement family , " said Marloes Rodewijk . The company subsequently developed the FUTURA , a sustainable pink wine turn completely with current of air energy and marketed together with the trade and flower store .
Together was also a recurring word during the event . Houwenplant was one of the ' early adopters ' and started footprinting years ago . When ask where to set off as a society , Marco van der Goes was light : " Well , just do it ! " At the same time , he also made an entreaty to the intact manufacture . " We require to commit in further trim back our footprint , but we can not do this alone . We have to take this up with the whole chain . "
Floor Schamp of the Association of Floricultural Wholesalers ( VGB ) agree . European law and regulation around sustainability will have a major impact on floriculture operations in the get years , she betoken . " reckon on what your client consider important , they will ask more data on the ware , and sure footprint data , such as perceptivity into CO2 emission , may even become a delivery precondition . But insight into one ’s own footprint also offers opportunity . It is a steering chemical mechanism to start work on sustainability yourself by addressing the crowing hotspot within your company , for instance . And that , in turn , can be toll - efficient . In addition , insight provide opportunities to secern yourself . "
ambitious processDevelopments do not place upright still in the AGF sector either . To make consciousness and take concrete steps to bring down environmental shock , Oxin Growers launched a pilot Environmental Footprint in collaboration with GreenlinQdata and Greenhouse Sustainability early last year . " Initially with a small number of agriculturist , then with a great mathematical group , and the ambitiousness now is to have all growers connected by the death of this yr , " Sandra van der Veer told us . With 135 greenhouse veg agriculturalist , 60 yield agriculturist , and 35 outdoor agriculturalist , that ’s a big job . " By the end of 2027 , we want to have a practicable tool available . A ambitious outgrowth , plain , but we will definitely deliver the goods . "
How those putz will be developed and what is already available within the chain of mountains was explained by Rick van der Linden of Greenhouse Sustainability . In doing so , the objective is to develop a suitable footprint instrument for everyone , he indicated , within horticulture and beyond .
Keynote speaker Niels van den Beucken , director at Arte Groep , cater a unique position . The caller supplies worktops and material for kitchen , doing so with attending to the surroundings and the welfare of all citizenry involved in production . Van den Beucken revealed that the focus on sustainability also make a warm connectedness with the company ’s employees . " By involving them , it also becomes their passionateness , and they are proud of the company . By doing so , we ensure that sustainability is embedded in our deoxyribonucleic acid . "
As mention , the ambition is to establish an one-year footprint outcome for the horticulture sector . " We have kicked off , partly because of our 10 - year anniversary . Next twelvemonth in April , we want to organize the second edition . But this does not have to remain our party . Above all , let ’s engage with each other , so that we can further shape the Tuinbouw Footprint Event together in the get along years into a long-lived , worthful event for the entire chain , " Henri Potze said .
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