2024
Certificate number: BPD 001/2024 RTI
The Biosphere Certified label is awarded after verifying that sustainable practices are being implemented correctly. It is a guarantee that the entity is fulfilling its commitments.
Port of Quebec
Certificate number: BPD 001/2024 RTI
The Biosphere Certified label is awarded after verifying that sustainable practices are being implemented correctly. It is a guarantee that the entity is fulfilling its commitments.
Sustainability efforts
Here are some examples of how Port of Quebec is committed to working towards global sustainability:
The global sustainability of Port of Quebec
A Biosphere Sustainability Plan such as Port of Quebec translates not only into a commitment to sustainability, but also into a contribution with significant impact.
- They promote the respectful use of beaches and marine environments.
- They promote social-economic growth in their environment.
- They apply social integration, non-discriminatory and inclusive policies.
Attributes
Food and beverages
Mobility
Eco and Environment
Climate Change
Think Global, Act Local
Sustainability areas
Environment and Climate Change
The sustainability of the processes of catchment, supply, sanitation and treatment of the resource is guaranteed in the following way:
- They care about the quality and cleanliness of their water systems.
- They adopt measures to avoid contaminating the waters with their activity.
- Its facilities encourage you to consume less water and more efficiently.
The company contributes to ensuring and promoting universal access to clean, smart and modern energy services:
- They prioritize the use of green and more renewable energy sources.
- They adopt energy efficiency measures in their facilities.
The entity implements sustainable consumption and production patterns, for example:
- They promote the 3Rs in their facilities and production models: reduce, recycle and reuse.
- They prioritize the purchase and consumption of local and sustainable products and services.
- They collaborate with other entities to promote sustainability in the territory.
A company not only contributes to climate change, but is also affected by it. That is why Port of Quebec is developing an enabling framework to reduce emissions and create a better world.
As a global response to climate change, the entity carries out actions such as:
- They encourage sustainable mobility.
- They promote resilience to climate change.
- They measure and offset the carbon footprint of their activity.
Sustainable business management must include the perspective of respect for the marine environment and its resources. In this sense, Port of Quebec has carried out the following actions:
To strive for sustainable underwater life, from this entity:
- They carry out actions to raise awareness and protect marine ecosystems.
- They promote the respectful use of beaches and marine environments.
- 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 carry out activities that respect the natural heritage and the local fauna.
- They act to reduce the impacts of their activity on biodiversity.
- They strive to prevent the degradation of terrestrial ecosystems and habitats.
Society and Culture
Port of Quebec's efforts to fight poverty are growing, read on to learn more:
In order to promote inclusive economic development, from this entity:
- They promote social-economic growth in their environment.
- They collaborate with programs and social projects in their environment.
- They participate in international humanitarian solidarity projects.
Port of Quebec has decided to strive to improve the well-being of others through initiatives related to Sustainable Development Goal 3.
To promote healthy activities and prevent health risks:
- They participate in projects aimed at promoting better health for people.
- They collaborate with health systems in favor of collective health.
- They promote the adoption of healthier lifestyles and habits.
- They implement sanitary measures against Covid and other infectious pathologies.
- They apply safety and risk prevention measures.
Port of Quebec is adapting to the real needs of its employees, customers and other stakeholders, keeping sustainable development as its main objective.
To ensure the existence of inclusive and quality training:
- They participate in the development of educational projects of other entities.
- 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.
- They control and evaluate their measures of empowerment and 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 promote the conservation of the local cultural and natural heritage.
- Its offer includes local cultural products and activities.
To inspire sincerity and participation, from this entity:
- They make known their commitments, good practices and sustainable efforts.
- They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.
Governance and Economy
Actions such as the following favor a sustainable use of land and make it possible to achieve responsible consumption patterns. This is not always easy, but Port of Quebec has managed to prove it.
To ensure a responsible consumption model, actions are carried out, such as:
- They prioritize and publicize products from local agriculture and KM0.
- For their supplies, they prioritize agri-food products and suppliers that follow more respectful and sustainable practices.
- They take measures to prevent food waste.
The creation of decent and productive employment is one of the fundamental pillars of economic and sustainable growth, which is why Port of Quebec has decided to work along these lines.
In this entity, to create decent and productive employment:
- They facilitate work-life balance and the employment of less favored groups.
- They protect and respect the labor and equality rights of their workers.
- Encourage innovation and continuous improvement among their employees.
- They offer quality employment, promoting local hiring and training.
To achieve efficient use of resources we need to innovate and improve our infrastructure and industry. In pursuit of this goal Port of Quebec undertakes efforts such as:
We all have to put ourselves at the service of the communities, and to this end, in this entity:
- Prioritise the use of new technologies for more sustainable activity.
- Promote improvements in the infrastructure of the neighbourhood/community around them.
- They encourage the planning, design and construction of sustainable infrastructures.
- Adopt resilience measures in the face of eventualities and disasters.
To incorporate equality criteria, in this entity:
- They apply social integration, non-discriminatory and inclusive policies.
- They support SMEs and local businesses in the development of their activity.
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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