Environment and climate change
A return to Vietnam
20 June 2025
SOCODEVI first got its start in Vietnam in 2001 and maintained a presence there through 2022. Now, it’s proud to announce the launch of BLOOM, another major initiative in Vietnam. Funded by Global Affairs Canada and implemented in partnership with Desjardins International Development, this new six-year project marks a significant milestone in our efforts to protect biodiversity and empower women from ethnic minorities.
COP29: 5 things you need to know
14 January 2025
In November 2024, SOCODEVI, represented by its observers Renée Brunelle and Andrée-Anne Côté-St-Laurent, visited Azerbaijan's capital Baku for the 29th Climate COP. Here is a summary and relevant information on the event.
SOCODEVI takes part in World Cleanup Day for the first time
17 October 2024
For the 5th edition of World Cleanup Day and its first year as an International Day on the United Nations Calendar, SOCODEVI asked its teams to roll up their sleeves and get cleaning! The aim of this global initiative is to bring people together to clean up the waste polluting our environment.
Generating resilience through collective actions!
6 June 2023
The resilience generated by collective actions and the cooperative model was at the heart of discussions at the event "Solidarity-based actions for the resilience of agri-food systems and smallholder farmers", held on May 31 at McGill University in the presence of the President of the United Nations' International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Alvaro Lario.
Environment: our star teams!
2 June 2022
To reduce our environmental footprint, our teams work together and commit to improving their practices year after year. That's why, to celebrate World Environment Day, we want to highlight our champion teams. Discover our five country offices that stood out for their environmental management in 2021-2022.
Go for agroforestry
20 April 2022
SOCODEVI: STILL CARBON NEUTRAL IN 2022!
17 March 2022
“SOCODEVI is proud to renew its carbon neutral certification for a second consecutive year. We continue to set ourselves apart and conduct our operations in alignment with our principles and values.” – JEAN-PHILIPPE MARCOUX, SOCODEVI CEO
Colombia: Sowing hope, growing peace
29 June 2021
“I want to make our plantation a profitable and model family business, in order to show the benefits of working legally to the community and to motivate young people. I think there’s something truly magical about cocoa. That’s why I say cocoa is peace, it is life.”
Tree of Intercooperation: Solidarity for a Greener Future!
15 April 2021
The program was initially designed to uphold SOCODEVI’s environmental responsibility commitments and those of its member institutions (cooperatives and mutual organizations in Quebec). Since the project was launched in 2009, no fewer than 5,593.6 tons of CO2-eq have been offset by the planting of 207,756
A carbon-neutral SOCODEVI!
SOCODEVI is officially carbon-neutral, becoming the first international cooperation organization to be certified by the engineering consulting firm LCL Environnement. SOCODEVI will also continue to offset its carbon emissions through its own program, the Tree of Intercooperation, which is now an option in the offsetting guide