After 21 years in business, a flower farm in Kenya’s Rift Valley region, Wildfire Flowers, achieved a big milestone by becoming carbon neutral.
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Flower farm Wildfire Flowers made some big steps since achieving the Fairtrade certification in 2012. As a result, the flower farm achieved the One Carbon World - Carbon Neutral International Standard status by 2020.
But how did this flower farm achieve carbon-neutral status by 2020? They succeeded by:
Improving their water efficiency
Improving their energy use
The application of fertilizer
Waste management
Besides a net-zero carbon impact on the climate, the journey to carbon-neutral status has also had a positive impact on the employees of the flower farm. For instance, employees are learning intensively about the importance of sustainability and climate conservation and thereby they are taking these lessons home with them.
Want to learn more about how Wildfire Flowers became carbon neutral? Then check out this article on the Fairtrade website.
Photo of a worker showing compost manure generated from flower waste (by Fairtrade Africa)