Florverde Sustainable Flowers works hard to make all the flowers certified with its brand, environmentally sustainable. FSF encourages growers to adopt energy efficient processes and requires them to minimize the use of energy intensive inputs such as fertilizers and pesticides, growers must also conduct preventive maintenance of electric equipment and implement reforestation activities using native species.
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Gifts from the earth that do not affect the ozone layer.
We are implementing in certified flower facilities in Colombia, a project created to replace R-22 from flower growers' cold rooms with natural refrigerants, such as the R-290
READ MOREHow did this flower company survive the COVID-19?
Colombia is the second country with the largest export of flowers in the world, and when this quarantine began, the fear was enormous.
READ MOREFSF standards as an unexpected way to facing COVID-19 in the flower sector
The coronavirus has strongly affected the world and the vast majority of economic sectors, where the flower industry is no exception. In the first weeks of the pandemic, sales decreased dramatically, with the added concern of being in one of the most important seasons for the industry: Mother's Day. However, the sense of responsibility and commitment with the earth and the thousands of workers led to all the necessary measures being taken with great speed to guarantee the stability of all.
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We welcome to our sustainable community the companies that obtained the FSF certification in 2019
READ MOREComparing the social criteria of the certifications Florverde Sustainable Flowers (FSF) and Fairtrade (FLO)
In this new series of technical comparisons with other certifications standards, we will focus on the benchmarking between Florverde Sustainable Flowers and Fairtrade International - Hired Labour; exclusively on the social criteria of both.
READ MOREComparaciones entre Florverde Sustainable Flowers y Rainforest Alliance Certified
El Sustainability Map, una iniciativa del International Trade Center de las Naciones Unidas que recopila información de más de 200 estándares a nivel mundial, permite comparar en línea los contenidos de los diferentes estándares, para dar al usuario una idea acerca de la robustez del estándar en consulta.
General comparisons between Florverde Sustainable Flowers and Rainforest Alliance Certified
The Sustainability Map, an initiative of the United Nations’ International Trade Center gathers information from more than 200 certifications worldwide, allowing the online comparison of these; hence, giving the user an idea about the robustness of the standard in question.