Commitment 2050 to Sustainable Development

So­ci­ety’s Com­mit­ment to Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment is a long-term, shared ob­jec­tive for the fu­ture of Fin­land. The idea is sim­ple – con­crete ac­tions, mea­sur­able re­sults.

The Finnish Na­tional Com­mis­sion on Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment agreed upon the So­ci­ety’s Com­mit­ment to Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment in 2013.
The core of the com­mit­ment con­sists of the 8 joint goals, to which dif­fer­ent ac­tors give their own op­er­a­tional com­mit­ments that can be mea­sured and mon­i­tored.

Commitment 2050 of Perho

Perho Culi­nary, Tourism & Busi­ness Col­lege com­mits it­self to ed­u­cat­ing re­spon­si­ble fu­ture pro­fes­sion­als who are in the process of be­com­ing the en­voys of sus­tain­able gas­tron­omy and tourism. Re­spect for na­ture now and in the fu­ture is our start­ing point when we build new kinds of learn­ing en­vi­ron­ments and learn­ing mod­els in co-op­er­a­tion with the ELO Foun­da­tion as pi­o­neers.

Sum­mary: Our com­mit­ment is based on three sto­ries of “For­est, Field and Wa­ter”.

Forest

Our goal is to ed­u­cate wild-food ex­perts who are able to make ex­ten­sive use of wild food and tell sto­ries about Finnish wild-food and wild-food taste ex­pe­ri­ences. The goal is also to cre­ate a “work­ing to­gether with good food cul­ture” and to give new ideas to food and tourism pro­fes­sion­als. The wild food know-how of food pro­fes­sion­als was started in co-op­er­a­tion with the ELO Foun­da­tion.

Field

The com­mon farm-field at Malmi Cam­pus will be built on the ba­sis of the Com­mu­nity Sup­ported Agri­cul­ture model, whose idea is to sup­port small-scale, or­ganic farm­ing and in­volve ur­ban peo­ple and stake­hold­ers. In this case, the field can also be used as an oc­cu­pa­tional ther­a­peu­tic place where the na­ture and the field area are uti­lized to main­tain and in­crease the well-be­ing of peo­ple. The field will be a place where food is raised eco­log­i­cally and sus­tain­ably. Ur­ban peo­ple, tourists, stu­dents and pro­fes­sion­als in the in­dus­try can see where the food comes from, how it moves in eco­log­i­cal and sus­tain­able gas­tro­nomic phi­los­o­phy from the field to the kitchen and to the plate. Par­tic­i­pants also learn to un­der­stand the whole life cy­cle of soil man­age­ment.

Water

We en­cour­age you to re­cy­cle bot­tles and drink wa­ter from the durable bot­tles that can be re-filled with tap wa­ter. We strongly rec­om­mend that you re­duce and grad­u­ally aban­don plas­tic wa­ter bot­tles. By drink­ing pure wa­ter from your own bot­tle, you are con­tribut­ing to the en­vi­ron­ment by re­duc­ing the gen­er­a­tion of plas­tic waste. Plas­tic par­ti­cles in­ter­fere with aquatic ecosys­tems all over the world, in­clud­ing in Fin­land.

Further information about Commitment 2050

On Com­mit­ment 2050 web­site, or­gan­i­sa­tions, com­pa­nies and pri­vate in­di­vid­u­als can give op­er­a­tional com­mit­ments to sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment and ideas on im­ple­ment­ing sus­tain­able de­vel­op­ment, and they can chal­lenge other ac­tors to join. All ac­tors in so­ci­ety are in­vited to join the work; pri­vate in­di­vid­u­als can also give op­er­a­tional com­mit­ments. An op­er­a­tional com­mit­ment that has goals and can be mea­sured is an ex­cel­lent tool for de­vel­op­ing the op­er­a­tion of a com­pany or a com­mu­nity, for ex­am­ple. An op­er­a­tional com­mit­ment in­cludes goals, in­di­ca­tors and a sched­ule set by the party mak­ing the com­mit­ment that also en­ters them into this data­base. Af­ter the com­mit­ment has been en­tered and marked as com­plete, it is pub­lished in this on­line ser­vice. The Finnish Na­tional Com­mis­sion on Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment, the gen­eral sec­re­tar­iat and the ex­pert panel mon­i­tor and sup­port the com­mit­ments and their progress.