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About
Us
Varda Core Values
Environment and
Sustainability:
The on-going environmental crisis requires accelerated
co-operation by all stakeholders, including governments,
multilateral organisations, the business sector
and NGOs. There can be no sustainable future without
a stable natural environment.
Sustainable
Development and Consumption:
The challenges of sustainability require an urgent
shift in consumption patterns, especially with regard
to energy and other raw materials. The elimination
of unsustainable consumption, enhanced especially
by subsidies that are unsustainable in many ways,
is a pre-requisite to the eradication of poverty
and the enhancement of global equity, including
inter-generational equity.
Public
Health:
The lack of access to public health services and
medicines for an increasingly large proportion of
humankind is unacceptable. Trade interests should
be subordinate to public health and equity concerns,
and not the reverse.
Scientific advice used by regulatory authorities
in the fields of public and environmental health
must be transparent (including with respect to the
sources of funding), and open to public scrutiny.
Consumers and Human Rights:
The right-to-know and the right-to-speak-out are
still the privileges of a small minority. Even in
countries where these rights have been taken for
granted for decades, they are being threatened in
the name of 'security' and free trade. The increasingly
gray area between information and corporate-led
advertisement further complicates the problem. These
rights must be reaffirmed as a pre-requisite for
any democratic society.
International
Trade:
The multilateral trading system must service environmental
sustainability, fair and sustainable trade, and
respect the precautionary principle. The elimination
of unfair and unsustainable subsidies is the first
test case.
Equity:
Varda views equity at all levels, including inter-generational
equity, as a key guiding principle.
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