Promote, not destroy, vital values

2019

RVR-CFC will spare no effort to promote the protected industrial hygiene concept! More than 100 countries around the world are suffering from dramatic environmental damage due to excessive logging and slash and burn. With millions of toilets in the future, the suffering biodiversity will be promoted worldwide and at the same time cumulative up to 1 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere will be converted into valuable wood every year!

2014

In the presence of the following renowned UN representatives, RVR-CFC was honored for its partner contribution of 100 trees to the international event “Forests for Fashion. Fashion for Forests ”from March 21, 2014.

• Michael Moller, Director General UNOG and Executive Secretary UNECE
• FAO representative (Ms Paola Deda on the behalf of Ms Sandra Aviles, OIC FAO Liaison Office, Geneva)
• Marc Wey, Deputy Permanent Representative of Switzerland to WTO and EFTA
• Heikki Granholm, Chair of UNECE Committee on Forests and the Forest Industry (COFFI)

2009

The international patent organization OMPI recognizes the future services of RVR-CFC in Art. 44 of the Madrid Protocol as “Services de sylviculture” and protects the activities of RVR Service until 2019.

2008

RVR Service AG’s environmental market management concept is registered as a national trademark. Thus, the associated reforestation projects of “Clean Forest” recognized in close connection as a climate protection measure.

2007

First United Nations Forest Forum (UNFF) with breakthrough. Agreement on an international forest convention. In the same year, Al Gore, Nobel Prize winner is quoted as saying: “It takes a lot of will and courage to make costly economic and social changes in order to counteract the climate catastrophe.”

1992

First UN Environment Summit in Rio de Janeiro. “Human civilization will destroy itself in the long term if it does not change its essential habits, such as resource use and consumption.”

1876

The revolutionary Swiss Forest Police Act of 1876 made the principle of sustainability mandatory. At that time there was a lack of wood in our country. The realization that every generation should be entitled to the same income opportunities prevailed because of the previous clearing of the forest. Anyone who opposed the “use of interest” from now on had to deal with the police.

1713

Hans Carl von Carlowitz wrote the first work on the conservation of forests on behalf of the government because of forest emergency and gave this treatise the name “sylvicultura oeconomia”. The first detailed formulation of sustainable forestry was born.