2025

Certificate number: BPD 001/2023 RTI
The Biosphere Certified badge is awarded after verifying that sustainable practices are being implemented correctly. It guarantees that the entity is fulfilling its commitments.
Puerto Deportivo de Gijón

Certificate number: BPD 001/2023 RTI
The Biosphere Certified badge is awarded after verifying that sustainable practices are being implemented correctly. It guarantees that the entity is fulfilling its commitments.
Sustainability efforts
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The global sustainability of Puerto Deportivo de Gijón
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- They control, monitor and report on the management of their waste and impacts.
- They collaborate with programs and social projects in their environment.
- They adopt measures to avoid contaminating the waters with their activity.
Attributes
Sustainability areas
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 Puerto Deportivo de Gijón:
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 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 carry out awareness campaigns on the use of energy.
The entity implements sustainable consumption and production patterns, for example:
- 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.
- They collaborate with other entities to promote sustainability in the territory.
- 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.
Sustainable business management must include the perspective of respect for the marine environment and its resources. In this sense, Puerto Deportivo de Gijón has carried out the following actions:
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.
- They carry out actions to raise awareness and protect marine ecosystems.
- They promote the respectful use of beaches and marine environments.
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 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.
- They collaborate with programs and social projects in their environment.
To promote healthy activities and prevent health risks:
- They promote the adoption of healthier lifestyles and habits.
- They apply safety and risk prevention measures.
- They implement sanitary measures against Covid and other infectious pathologies.
Puerto Deportivo de Gijón 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 promote knowledge about sustainable development.
- They care about training their staff.
- They participate in the development of educational projects of other entities.
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.
The constant urbanization of environments can generate long-term problems, such as forgetting the memory of the community. To avoid these mistakes and meet these challenges, Puerto Deportivo de Gijón has decided to:
To work to avoid the pernicious effects of overcrowding, from this entity:
- They promote the conservation of the local cultural and natural heritage.
- They offer information about the local heritage and the traditions of the place.
- They create alliances with local companies to avoid Overtourism.
- Its offer includes local cultural products and activities.
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 make known their commitments, good practices and sustainable efforts.
- They use indicators to measure quality
- They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.
- They care about knowing and improving the satisfaction of their customers.
Governance and Economy
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.
In this entity, to create decent and productive employment:
- 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.
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.
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.
- Facilitate universal accessibility for their customers and workers.
Now, more than ever, it is time to unite and cooperate for sustainability. From Biosphere we congratulate Puerto Deportivo de Gijón for their efforts in SDG 17, an SDG perhaps more complex than the rest, but more necessary than ever.
It is necessary to build alliances for sustainability. To this end:
- They collaborate with academic institutions in favor of sustainable development.
- They share their good practices and sustainable experiences with other entities.
- They create agreements and alliances in favor of sustainability
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