2025

Certificate number: BAT 041/2023 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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Prince of Whales Vancouver

Certificate number: BAT 041/2023 RTI

Sustainability efforts

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The global sustainability of Prince of Whales Vancouver

From Biosphere we recognize and highlight the effort that Prince of Whales Vancouver 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 Prince of Whales Vancouver and we will share it: Twitter Biosphere and Instagram Biosphere

They create alliances with local companies to avoid Overtourism.
They adopt measures to avoid contaminating the waters with their activity.
They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.

Attributes

Reduced Carbon Footprint

Sustainability areas

Environment and Climate Change

Society and Culture

Local development

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 Prince of Whales Vancouver:

The sustainability of the processes of catchment, supply, sanitation and treatment of the resource is guaranteed in the following way:

They apply measures to reuse water in their facilities.
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.

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 prioritize the purchase and consumption of local and sustainable products and services.
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 control, monitor and report on the management of their waste and impacts.

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 promote resilience to climate change.

To strive for sustainable underwater life, from this entity:

They promote the respectful use of beaches and marine environments.
They carry out actions to raise awareness and protect marine ecosystems.
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 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 act to reduce the impacts of their activity on biodiversity.

Society and Culture

In order to promote inclusive economic development, from this entity:

They promote social-economic growth in their environment.
They participate in international humanitarian solidarity projects.

To promote healthy activities and prevent health risks:

They apply safety and risk prevention measures.
They promote the adoption of healthier lifestyles and habits.
They implement sanitary measures against Covid and other infectious pathologies.

Prince of Whales Vancouver 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 promote labor empowerment in their work systems.

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.
Its offer includes local cultural products and activities.
They promote the conservation of the local cultural and natural heritage.
They create alliances with local companies to avoid Overtourism.
They provide information and access to accessible and more sustainable transport.

To inspire sincerity and participation, from this entity:

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.
They make known their commitments, good practices and sustainable efforts.
They care about knowing and improving the satisfaction of their customers.
They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.

Governance and Economy

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

They take measures to prevent food waste.
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.

In this entity, to create decent and productive employment:

They facilitate work-life balance and the employment of less favored groups.
Encourage innovation and continuous improvement among their employees.
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 Prince of Whales Vancouver 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.
They encourage the planning, design and construction of sustainable infrastructures.
Promote improvements in the infrastructure of the neighbourhood/community around them.
Adopt resilience measures in the face of eventualities and disasters.

To incorporate equality criteria, in this entity:

Facilitate universal accessibility for their customers and workers.
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
They collaborate with academic institutions in favor of sustainable development.