ICE BV Values

ICE BV believes in promoting projects that provide positive environmental and social benefits to the surrounding region, and in funding projects with efficient finance mechanisms that allow for financial sustainability.

Sustainable Development

Scientists, innovators and wealth creators have a crucial part to play in generating genuinely sustainable economic progress. However, human ingenuity and technological power is now so great that civilizations are capable of causing serious damage to the environment or to people's health through unsustainable development that does not give sufficient consideration of the wider impacts. Society needs to ensure that there is full evaluation of potentially damaging activities so that risks can be avoided or minimized. Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage to the environment or human health, the lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason to delay taking cost-effective action to prevent or minimize such damage.

Valuing Nature

Our economic and social well being is dependent on the resources and systems that sustain life on Earth. These systems have limits, which we breach at our peril. All economic activity must be constrained within those limits. We have an inescapable moral responsibility to pass a healthy and diverse environment on to future generations, and critical natural capital unimpaired by economic development. Even as we learn to manage our use of the natural world more efficiently, we must affirm those individual beliefs and belief systems which revere Nature for its intrinsic value.

Polluter Pays

Sustainable development requires that we make explicit the costs of pollution and inefficient resource use, and reflect those in the prices we pay for all products and services. This recycles the revenues from higher prices to drive the sustainability revolution that is now so urgently needed, and compensating those whose environments have been damaged. In pursuit of environmental justice, no part of society should be disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution or blight, and all people should have the same right to pure water, clean air, nutritious food and other key attributes of a healthy, life-sustaining environment.

Fair Shares

Sustainable economic development means "fair shares for all," ensuring that people's basic needs are properly met across the world, whilst securing constant improvements in the quality of peoples' lives through efficient, inclusive economies. Once basic needs are met, the goal is to achieve the highest quality of life for individuals and communities, within the Earth's carrying capacity, through transparent, properly-regulated markets which promote both social equity and personal prosperity.

Good Governance

There is no single blue-print for delivering sustainable development. It requires different strategies in different societies. But all strategies will depend on effective, participative systems of governance and institutions, engaging the interest, creativity and energy of all citizens. We must therefore celebrate diversity, practice tolerance and respect. Good governance is a two-way process. We should all take responsibility for promoting sustainability in our own lives and for engaging with others to secure more sustainable outcomes in society.

Private Investment in Environmental Poverty

An integral piece of society being both steward of our natural resources and promoter of measures to reduce rural poverty is the mobilization of private capital to finance sound projects in communities that need it. Our team works to preserve the environmental, financial and social capital of project communities and partners through sound investment principles.