Our mission
- To make Envirotrade the engine which brings together sustainable rural poverty alleviation, biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.
- To shift the destructive paradigm between forest communities, their environment and the need for food security and income.
- To find a formula in which economic development and biodiversity conservation converge to each other's mutual advantage in poor rural communities.
- To become a catalyst for better land-use, a social agent for alleviating poverty in the developing world and a champion for community empowerment.
- To give local farmers ownership of their carbon assets so that they become self-sustaining, are able to break the cycle of dependence on external aid and are better able to shape their own future.
- To provide expert advice and assistance rooted in extensive local expertise and experience in balancing development objectives with sustainability and livelihood creation.
- To pilot integrated solutions to unsustainable energy and other natural resource consumption that benefits rural communities and contribute to global objectives in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.