介绍
2022年9月22日，在花卉行业的国际负责商业行为协议（IRBC）的签署国举行了最后的大会，庆祝了三年的合作，以提高可持续性，并寻求未来的学习和建议的整合。
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IRBC花卉文化部门协议
IRBC协议于2019年9月签署，汇集了私营部门，非政府组织，工会和荷兰政府，以应对价值链中的人权风险和环境风险，旨在创造更可持续的生产和贸易具有三个优先主题的观赏植物：ESG尽职调查，生活工资和农业化学管理。IRBC协议的秘书处由可持续贸易倡议IDH主持。manbetx万博靠谱吗
关键目标之一是设置和实施基于风险的尽职调查过程，以避免并解决整个供应链中对人和星球的不利影响。这些过程与OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises（“ OECD指南”）和the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights（“ ungps”）。根据《 IRBC协议》，这些公司开发了执行ESG尽职调查的工具，同时也通过基础和终点评估捕获并评估了尽职调查实施的进度。
尽职调查的工具和最佳实践
The parties under the IRBC agreement developed tools and approaches to facilitate the implementation of specific steps in the OECD due diligence cycle. This includes the IRBC agreement code of conduct for the floriculture sector (step 1), a sector risk map and self-assessment questionnaire to identify key risks in sourcing regions (step 2), ESG reporting guidance (step 5) and an action plan with concrete recommendations for implementing a due diligence process.
Evaluation of due diligence implementation
A baseline evaluation in year two identified the extent to which companies under the IRBC agreement implemented the various steps in the due diligence cycle. A follow up evaluation in year three demonstrated that the activities under the IRBC agreement led to more awareness and all steps of the due diligence cycle, although ample opportunities for improvement remain. Overall, the group of companies improved their due diligence implementation score by 10, moving from an average of 50/100 in 2020 to an average of 60/100 in 2022.
根据《 IRBC协议》，各方还承认，生活工资是人类关键权利的重要性。因此，他们合作通过研讨会和网络研讨会开发了花卉部门的生活工资方法，并通过现场项目完善了这些方法。
The parties under the agreement adopted the IDH living wage roadmap structure as high-level living wage approach for the sector and undertook various activities to generate sector specific knowledge and experience for each step that is part of it. Most notably, pilots in 2021 to measure living wage gaps on East-African flower farms confirmed the applicability of the living wage approach and related living wage tools. It also provided an indication of the size of the living wage gaps, which tends to vary between 10% and 50%.
The 2021 farm measurement pilots led into another pilot project that is still ongoing, and in which a farm, a trader and a retailer analyse the identified living wage gap to design scenarios for closing gaps. The results of this project are expected to be shared with both former IRBC stakeholders and FSI members late 2022.
IRBC协议生活工资链飞行员：
As stakeholders to the IRBC agreement, the Floral Connection and Albert Heijn acknowledge the importance of a living wage for workers. Together with Nini roses, the Floral Connection and Albert Heijn are therefore collaborating in an IRBC Floriculture Agreement project to generate more knowledge around living ways and ways to address this in collaboration with others. We hope to use the anticipated learnings in our efforts to progressively work towards a living wage.
在审查了现有的农药测量方法和工具之后，根据IRBC协议的当事方着重于环境指标作物保护（EICP）作为环境影响测量的首选方法。理论测试案例（测试模型）和实用飞行员（在乌干达菊花生产中应用概念工具）证明了该工具对该行业的附加值价值，但也指出，它需要进行几次更新以进行实际使用。
An IDH co-funded research by Natuur & Millieu on the optimal integration of the EICP in the floriculture sector indicated that the underlying methodology and database would be owned by several parties to safeguard quality and independence. The research offers a valid basis for the further development of the EICP into an internationally applicable tool that can also serve the FSI ambition to reduce impact of agrochemical use on the environment. Together with stakeholders in other sectors, IDH will be contributing to the development of the next EICP version.
Integrating the Environmental Indicator Crop Protection:
Natuur & Milieu greatly values responsible agrochemical management and has been promoting this through active participation in both the IRBC agreement and the EICP consortium. We see the work of both initiatives as complementary and will build on the learnings from our research for the IRBC agreement to promote uptake of the EICP in the international floriculture sector.
IRBC花卉文化协议旨在在整个价值链中促进可持续性，同时建立现有知识和计划。因此，IRBC协议确保了优先主题的工作可以加快2025年花卉可持续性倡议（FSI）的野心和战略。在结束会议结束时，IRBC指导委员会主席Ted van der Put（IDH，主席IRBC指导委员会主席）和IRBC指导委员会成员史蒂芬·史密特（荷兰外交部），将最终报告移交给了Marcel Zandvliet（荷兰花朵（荷兰）Group，副主席FSI董事会和Jeroen Oudheusden（FSI执行官）。FSI将审查建议，以确定如何用于支持，补充和加速FSI的国际花卉议程。
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The integration of IRBC learnings into FSI:
We are proud of the work that all the parties in the IRBC agreement have conducted and see it as our responsibility to integrate the learnings, tooling and expertise into the strategy of Floriculture Sustainability Initiative. We will motivate all other stakeholders in the floriculture sector to implement these learnings and tools to keep our sector future proof. We need to upscale to create positive impact and can only do this together!
