2025

Certificate number: BAR 001/2023 RTI

The Biosphere Certified badge is awarded after verifying that sustainable practices are being properly implemented. It serves as a guarantee that the organisation is actively honouring its sustainability commitments.

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Certificate number: BAR 001/2023 RTI

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Sustainability efforts

Mountain Whisper is striving to create its own Biosphere Sustainability Plan, do you want to know more?

Attributes

Renewable energies

Sustainability areas

Environment and Climate Change

Society and Culture

Local development

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 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.
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 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 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.
They promote resilience to climate change.

To strive for sustainable underwater life, from this entity:

They support more sustainable uses of marine resources.
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 act to reduce the impacts of their activity on biodiversity.
They help maintain the native flora and fauna, preventing the intrusion of invasive species.
They carry out activities that respect the natural heritage and the local fauna.
They provide information on the natural resources of the territory.
They strive to prevent the degradation of terrestrial ecosystems and habitats.

Society and Culture

To promote healthy activities and prevent health risks:

They apply safety and risk prevention measures.
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.

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 promote labor empowerment in their work systems.
They adopt labor measures for gender equality.

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 inform about the available public services and the places of interest of the place.
They apply policies against all forms of corruption and exploitation
They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.

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.
Its gastronomic offer is prepared following health safety protocols.

In this entity, to create decent and productive employment:

They protect and respect the labor and equality rights of their workers.
They facilitate work-life balance and the employment of less favored groups.
They offer quality employment, promoting local hiring and training.

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:

Prioritise the use of new technologies for more sustainable activity.
Adopt resilience measures in the face of eventualities and disasters.
They encourage the planning, design and construction of sustainable infrastructures.

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.

It is necessary to build alliances for sustainability. To this end:

They create agreements and alliances in favor of sustainability
They share their good practices and sustainable experiences with other entities.