Environmental Sustainability

We understand that the environmental and developmental problems facing humanity involve a number of interrelated issues: increasing degradation of the global environment, deterioration and depletion of natural resources, excessive consumption, rising population pressures, perpetuation of disparities between and within nations, poverty, pollution, ignorance, injustice and armed conflict.

The decisions and choices humanity makes in response to the challenge of these critical problems will have major consequences for the future of life on Earth. Therefore, we only work with partners and on projects that are about ensuring the health and wellbeing of all living systems on planet Earth, as all are imperative for our collective survival.

We all have a role and a responsibility to protect, preserve and, insofar as possible, restore the health and integrity of ecosystems, ensuring the functioning of essential ecological processes and life support systems throughout the Earth.