2024
Certificate number: BHR 021/2023 RTI
The Biosphere Certified badge is awarded after verifying that sustainable practices are being implemented correctly. It guarantees that the entity is fulfilling its commitments.
Barão Guesthouse
Certificate number: BHR 021/2023 RTI
The Biosphere Certified badge is awarded after verifying that sustainable practices are being implemented correctly. It guarantees that the entity is fulfilling its commitments.
Sustainability efforts
Barão Guesthouse is striving to create its own Biosphere Sustainability Plan, do you want to know more?
The global sustainability of Barão Guesthouse
Barão Guesthouse has a solid sustainability plan, formed by good practices that have been endorsed by our audit team.
- They promote the adoption of healthier lifestyles and habits.
- Adopt resilience measures in the face of eventualities and disasters.
- Prioritise the use of new technologies for more sustainable activity.
Attributes
Local gastronomy
Less Plastic
Environmental project
Positive Local Impact
Sustainability areas
Environment and Climate Change
Water is one of our most precious assets. The Barão Guesthouse makes great efforts to ensure its proper use, so that future generations will not suffer from shortages.
The sustainability of the processes of catchment, supply, sanitation and treatment of the resource is guaranteed in the following way:
- Its facilities encourage you to consume less water and more efficiently.
- They carry out campaigns to inform and raise awareness about cleanliness and the responsible use of water.
- They care about the quality and cleanliness of their water systems.
- They adopt measures to avoid contaminating the waters with their activity.
- They apply measures to reuse water in their facilities.
In the future we will be able to count on renewable energy sources at all times, but in the meantime, Barão Guesthouse is striving to implement them, as well as to promote sustainable consumption.
The company contributes to ensuring and promoting universal access to clean, smart and modern energy services:
- They adopt energy efficiency measures in their facilities.
- They prioritize the use of green and more renewable energy sources.
- They carry out awareness campaigns on the use of energy.
The entity implements sustainable consumption and production patterns, for example:
- They adopt measures to minimize the waste they generate with their activity.
- They promote the 3Rs in their facilities and production models: reduce, recycle and reuse.
- They apply responsible production and consumption criteria.
As a global response to climate change, the entity carries out actions such as:
- They encourage sustainable mobility.
To strive for sustainable underwater life, from this entity:
- They collaborate to prevent pollution of the seas, oceans and rivers.
As a strategy and measures relating to the prevention of negative impacts, from this entity:
- They provide information on the natural resources of the territory.
Society and Culture
In order to promote inclusive economic development, from this entity:
- They promote social-economic growth in their environment.
To promote healthy activities and prevent health risks:
- They implement sanitary measures against Covid and other infectious pathologies.
- They promote the adoption of healthier lifestyles and habits.
- They apply safety and risk prevention measures.
To ensure the existence of inclusive and quality training:
- They promote knowledge about sustainable development.
- They care about training their staff.
To become a powerful tool for women's empowerment, from this entity:
- They adopt labor measures for gender equality.
To work to avoid the pernicious effects of overcrowding, from this entity:
- They offer information about the local heritage and the traditions of the place.
- They provide information and access to accessible and more sustainable transport.
- Its offer includes local cultural products and activities.
Through SDG 16, Barão Guesthouse is committed to transparency, honesty, participation and equity. As well as to stop exploitation, intolerance, and the abuses of the economic system.
To inspire sincerity and participation, from this entity:
- They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.
- They use indicators to measure quality
- They make known their commitments, good practices and sustainable efforts.
- They apply policies against all forms of corruption and exploitation
- They inform about the available public services and the places of interest of the place.
Governance and Economy
To ensure a responsible consumption model, actions are carried out, such as:
- They prioritize and publicize products from local agriculture and KM0.
- They take measures to prevent food waste.
In this entity, to create decent and productive employment:
- They offer quality employment, promoting local hiring and training.
- They protect and respect the labor and equality rights of their workers.
This entity makes great efforts to create a healthier, more accessible and intelligent world.
We all have to put ourselves at the service of the communities, and to this end, in this entity:
- Adopt resilience measures in the face of eventualities and disasters.
- They encourage the planning, design and construction of sustainable infrastructures.
- Prioritise the use of new technologies for more sustainable activity.
To incorporate equality criteria, in this entity:
- They apply social integration, non-discriminatory and inclusive policies.
It is necessary to build alliances for sustainability. To this end:
- They share their good practices and sustainable experiences with other entities.
- They create agreements and alliances in favor of sustainability
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