A TRANSPARENT AND RESPONSIBLE

SUPPLY CHAIN IN 2025

The Floriculture Sustainability Initiative (FSI) is a market-driven initiative that brings together members of the international floriculture sector. Towards 2025, FSI members will continue to build on the progress made on transparency, responsible production and trade, positive impact and improvement in the floriculture supply chain.

2025 AMBITION

Since 2013 the Floriculture Sustainability Initiative has enabled exchange between leading organizations and businesses in the floriculture sector on sustainability, helping them to progress on this important agenda.

In continuity with what has been the members focus since the start, the FSI2025 ambition is centred around three pillars – responsible production & trade, responsible conduct and integrated reporting – plus the FSI governance framework, providing a comprehensive approach to supply chain sustainability.

KEY OBJECTIVES

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90% responsibly produced and traded volumes by 2025

FSI members continue to aim for 100% of the volumes to be responsibly produced and traded. The existing FSI Social and Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) criteria stay in place. With the added environmental scope and new social criteria for producers in low-risk countries the 90% target has become even more ambitious.

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Reduction of the product carbon footprint for selected products by 2025

FSI has developed and tested an environmental footprinting tool that is in line with the EU HortiPEF category rules and benchmarked other methodologies currently used by members against it. Members have used the tool to calculate their own carbon footprint at product-level which enabled them to set a carbon reduction goal for selected products.

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Reduction of the living wage gap of workers at farm level by 2025

Reduction of the living wage gap of workers at farm level by 2025 FSI recognizes that decent work and living wages are fundamental and globally recognized human right. FSI will engage stakeholders along the supply chain to join this ambition by using data and uniform methodologies to reduce the living wage gap of workers at farm level by 2025.

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FSI members report on progress and integrate due diligence reporting by 2025

Reporting is essential to demonstrate good practice and drive continuous improvement in transparent and data-driven supply chains.
The reporting process consists of:
1/ internal FSI reporting
2/ external reporting of FSI results and
3/ external due diligence reporting.

FSI BASKET OF STANDARDS

TRANSPARENCY — The great variety of standards and certifications in the floriculture sector contribute to higher levels of sustainability. Floriculture standards in the FSI Basket are successfully benchmarked against international basic requirements and legislation.

RESPONSIBILITY — The FSI Basket is used as verified and independent reference for responsible sourcing on Good Agricultural Practices (GAP), Social and Environmental. Producers can comply with the FSI Basket requirements when certified by the accepted standards in GAP (unchanged) and Environmental scopes (new).

Jan van Dam

Dutch Flower Group

CEO

“We are a frontrunner in the floricultural sector and at the same time we try to inspire other sector members. We truly believe in making ourselves accountable in our collective journey towards a more sustainable and greener world. We therefore need to make our sustainability efforts transparent, impactful and also communicate more about our achievements,

in order to reach our ambitions together.”

PROJECTS

FSI members are driving improvements on sustainability key topics with the implementation of field and research projects. Results are shared and used within the network to strengthen practices and ensure progress towards the shared ambition.