The cooperative movement – representing 1,2 billion cooperative members – is strongly committed to environmental issues, and sectors such as agriculture are increasingly concerned with environmental sustainability. As member-driven, value-based, democratically-managed, and locally-rooted enterprises, cooperatives answer to the needs and aspirations of the communities where their members are based. Since these communities are increasingly experiencing needs and aspirations of an environmental nature, cooperatives have a key role to play for the sustainable use of the planet’s resources and climate change.
