2023

Certificate number: BHR 001/2019 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.

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My Ribeira Guest House

Certificate number: BHR 001/2019 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.

Go to My Ribeira Guest House

Sustainability efforts

My Ribeira Guest House is committed to making great efforts towards sustainability. Read on to find out more:

The global sustainability of My Ribeira Guest House

From Biosphere we recognize and highlight the effort that My Ribeira Guest House has made to meet the 169 goals of the 2030 Agenda, even with what this means for their business management. You can congratulate them by writing to any of our social media about your experience with My Ribeira Guest House and we will share it: Twitter Biosphere and Instagram Biosphere

They carry out campaigns to inform and raise awareness about cleanliness and the responsible use of water.
Its gastronomic offer is prepared following health safety protocols.
Adopt resilience measures in the face of eventualities and disasters.

Attributes

Local gastronomy

Solidarity project

Environment and Climate Change

The actions of a sustainable entity must provide solutions to the water crisis and the lack of resources. These are the different contributions offered by My Ribeira Guest House:

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 carry out awareness campaigns on the use of energy.
They adopt energy efficiency measures in their facilities.

The entity implements sustainable consumption and production patterns, for example:

They control, monitor and report on the management of their waste and impacts.
They adopt measures to minimize the waste they generate with their activity.
They apply responsible production and consumption criteria.
They promote the 3Rs in their facilities and production models: reduce, recycle and reuse.

As a global response to climate change, the entity carries out actions such as:

They measure and offset the carbon footprint of their activity.

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.
They help maintain the native flora and fauna, preventing the intrusion of invasive species.

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 apply safety and risk prevention measures.
They collaborate with health systems in favor of collective health.
They promote the adoption of healthier lifestyles and habits.

To ensure the existence of inclusive and quality training:

They care about training their staff.
They promote knowledge about sustainable development.

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:

Its offer includes local cultural products and activities.
They offer information about the local heritage and the traditions of the place.
They promote the conservation of the local cultural and natural heritage.

Democracy is necessary for sustainable development, so we must recognize the efforts of this entity to work on actions such as:

To inspire sincerity and participation, from this entity:

They inform about the available public services and the places of interest of the place.
They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.
They apply policies against all forms of corruption and exploitation
They make known their commitments, good practices and sustainable efforts.
They use indicators to measure quality
They care about knowing and improving the satisfaction of their customers.

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 My Ribeira Guest House has managed to prove it.

To ensure a responsible consumption model, actions are carried out, such as:

Its gastronomic offer is prepared following health safety protocols.
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.

To achieve efficient use of resources we need to innovate and improve our infrastructure and industry. In pursuit of this goal My Ribeira Guest House undertakes efforts such as:

We all have to put ourselves at the service of the communities, and to this end, in this entity:

They encourage the planning, design and construction of sustainable infrastructures.
Adopt resilience measures in the face of eventualities and disasters.
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 collaborate with academic institutions in favor of sustainable development.