Attending Roskilde Music Festival is a very rewarding experience for a Fairtrade ambassador like myself: the organisers took great care to provide as many Fairtrade-certified food&drinks products as possible: there's only Fairtrade-certified orange juice, chocolate bars, fruit smoothies, red and white wine, coffee and tea that are being officialy sold here at Roskilde Festival. You can see the Fairtrade logo everywhere - on bottles and cups and cartons! (One thing that I personally miss here is a Fairtrade cola drink - which doesn't seem to have arrived to Denmark yet).

Even this year humanitarian fundraising effort is focused on Fairtrade. It's called "Fair Phone - Fair Future" and it's about pushing consumer demand for a fairer trade terms for cobalt that's being mined in Democratic Republic of Congo. I think this is a great idea - but I was very surprised when I first heard about it here at the festival. I mean, there's no FLO certification of mineral resources so far, neither there're highly technological Fairtrade-certified products like phones or computers. I've been constantly wondering if this campaign aims to "fix" just the trade terms in favour of the people of DR Congo, without actually labelling the outcome of a "fairer" cobalt shipments as "Fairtrade", or if it would also try to adopt new rules for FLO certification to include mineral resources such a cobalt; or if it will develop its own "fair trade" label for mobile phones and maybe computers? I wonder whom shall I ask all these questions...

(Here you can read more about "Fair Phone - Fair Future" project on Roskilde Festival's webpage)