2024
Certificate number: BHO 061/2024 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.
Salgados Palace
Certificate number: BHO 061/2024 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
Salgados Palace is committed to making great efforts towards sustainability. Read on to find out more:
The global sustainability of Salgados Palace
We can confirm that Salgados Palace has completed a large part of our catalog of Biosphere activities, accrediting dozens of best practices to our audit team. What a feat!
- They adopt measures to minimize the waste they generate with their activity.
- They collaborate with programs and social projects in their environment.
- They provide information and access to accessible and more sustainable transport.
Attributes
Food and beverages
Mobility
Eco and Environment
Climate Change
Accessibility
Think Global, Act Local
Sustainability areas
Environment and Climate Change
Water is one of our most precious assets. The Salgados Palace 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:
- They carry out campaigns to inform and raise awareness about cleanliness and the responsible use of water.
- They apply measures to reuse water in their facilities.
- They care about the quality and cleanliness of their water systems.
- Its facilities encourage you to consume less water and more efficiently.
- They adopt measures to avoid contaminating the waters with their activity.
In the future we will be able to count on renewable energy sources at all times, but in the meantime, Salgados Palace 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 carry out awareness campaigns on the use of energy.
- They prioritize the use of green and more renewable energy sources.
- They adopt energy efficiency measures in their facilities.
Resources are not infinite, so Salgados Palace tries to make efficient use, implement a circular economy and work with responsible consumption patterns.
The entity implements sustainable consumption and production patterns, for example:
- They prioritize the purchase and consumption of local and sustainable products and services.
- They control, monitor and report on the management of their waste and impacts.
- They collaborate with other entities to promote sustainability in the territory.
- They apply responsible production and consumption criteria.
- They promote the 3Rs in their facilities and production models: reduce, recycle and reuse.
- They adopt measures to minimize the waste they generate with their activity.
As a global response to climate change, the entity carries out actions such as:
- They measure and offset the carbon footprint of their activity.
- They encourage sustainable mobility.
The oceans provide and regulate many of the resources we need in our daily lives: marine biodiversity is essential for the health of the planet. Salgados Palace, is committed to protect and care for them, praising them and communicating the importance of their good management. Congratulations!
To strive for sustainable underwater life, from this entity:
- They promote the respectful use of beaches and marine environments.
- They collaborate to prevent pollution of the seas, oceans and rivers.
- They support more sustainable uses of marine resources.
As a strategy and measures relating to the prevention of negative impacts, from this entity:
- They strive to prevent the degradation of terrestrial ecosystems and habitats.
- They act to reduce the impacts of their activity on biodiversity.
- They provide information on the natural resources of the territory.
Society and Culture
Salgados Palace is causing a great impact in the territory, participating in projects aimed at ending global poverty.
In order to promote inclusive economic development, from this entity:
- They participate in international humanitarian solidarity projects.
- They promote social-economic growth in their environment.
- They collaborate with programs and social projects in their environment.
How can health risks be prevented and good practices promoted? This entity is a great example of this, striving for the well-being of workers, customers and stakeholders.
To promote healthy activities and prevent health risks:
- They implement sanitary measures against Covid and other infectious pathologies.
- They participate in projects aimed at promoting better health for people.
- They promote the adoption of healthier lifestyles and habits.
- They apply safety and risk prevention measures.
- They collaborate with health systems in favor of collective health.
To ensure the existence of inclusive and quality training:
- They promote knowledge about sustainable development.
- They care about training their staff.
In the words of Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary, "Women's equality must be a central component in any attempt to solve social, economic and political problems." A statement that serves as the focus of Salgados Palace's gender policy.
To become a powerful tool for women's empowerment, from this entity:
- They promote labor empowerment in their work systems.
- They control and evaluate their measures of empowerment and equality.
- They adopt labor measures for gender equality.
We can all help create more diverse and sustainable communities. Read on to learn more about their great efforts:
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.
- They provide information and access to accessible and more sustainable transport.
- They create alliances with local companies to avoid Overtourism.
Through SDG 16, Salgados Palace 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 make known their commitments, good practices and sustainable efforts.
- They use indicators to measure quality
- They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.
- They use indicators to measure their sustainable progress.
- They apply policies against all forms of corruption and exploitation
- They care about knowing and improving the satisfaction of their customers.
- They inform about the available public services and the places of interest of the place.
Governance and Economy
It's not easy to specialize in a Sustainable Development Goal like this, but Salgados Palace has done it. Prioritizing environmentally sustainable suppliers, helping to avoid deforestation or raising social awareness are some ways to help curb world hunger. Read on to find out how this entity does it.
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.
- Its gastronomic offer is prepared following health safety protocols.
One of the biggest challenges in any sector is the creation of decent employment. We are proud to report that Salgados Palace strives to make a better place through the creation of decent work opportunities:
In this entity, to create decent and productive employment:
- They offer quality employment, promoting local hiring and training.
- Encourage innovation and continuous improvement among their employees.
- They protect and respect the labor and equality rights of their workers.
- They facilitate work-life balance and the employment of less favored groups.
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:
- Promote improvements in the infrastructure of the neighbourhood/community around them.
- Prioritise the use of new technologies for more sustainable activity.
- They encourage the planning, design and construction of sustainable infrastructures.
- Adopt resilience measures in the face of eventualities and disasters.
The great efforts of Salgados Palace to eliminate barriers and integrate the rest of the people regardless of their condition should be recognized. To this end, this entity carries out actions such as:
To incorporate equality criteria, in this entity:
- They support SMEs and local businesses in the development of their activity.
- They apply social integration, non-discriminatory and inclusive policies.
- Facilitate universal accessibility for their customers and workers.
A true sustainable development cannot be achieved without the cooperation and coordination of all the stakeholders involved. Congratulations Salgados Palace for your great efforts to fight for a common good: sustainability!
It is necessary to build alliances for sustainability. To this end:
- They collaborate with academic institutions in favor of sustainable development.
- They create agreements and alliances in favor of sustainability
- They share their good practices and sustainable experiences with other entities.
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