2024
Certificate number: BHO 260/2022 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.
Certificate number: BHO 260/2022 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
The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama is committed to making great efforts towards sustainability. Read on to find out more:
The global sustainability of The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama
We can confirm that The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama has completed a large part of our catalog of Biosphere activities, accrediting dozens of best practices to our audit team. What a feat!
- They act to reduce the impacts of their activity on biodiversity.
- They care about training their staff.
- They apply social integration, non-discriminatory and inclusive policies.
Attributes
Food and beverages
Authentic entertainment
Mobility
Eco and Environment
Climate Change
Accessibility
Think Global, Act Local
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 The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama:
The sustainability of the processes of catchment, supply, sanitation and treatment of the resource is guaranteed in the following way:
- 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.
- 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.
According to the UN, access to electricity in the poorest countries has begun to accelerate, while energy efficiency continues to improve and renewable energy is achieving excellent results. The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama is doing its bit in the following ways:
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 carry out awareness campaigns on the use of energy.
- They adopt energy efficiency measures in their facilities.
Did you know that, according to UNEP, 931 million meals are wasted in the world every year? Here are the efforts it is making The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama to fight against this scourge.
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 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 adopt measures to minimize the waste they generate with their activity.
- They apply responsible production and consumption criteria.
A company not only contributes to climate change, but is also affected by it. That is why The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama is developing an enabling framework to reduce emissions and create a better world.
As a global response to climate change, the entity carries out actions such as:
- They promote resilience to climate change.
- They encourage sustainable mobility.
- They measure and offset the carbon footprint of their activity.
Sustainable business management must include the perspective of respect for the marine environment and its resources. In this sense, The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama has carried out the following actions:
To strive for sustainable underwater life, from this entity:
- They carry out actions to raise awareness and protect marine ecosystems.
- They collaborate to prevent pollution of the seas, oceans and rivers.
- They promote the respectful use of beaches and marine environments.
- They support more sustainable uses of marine resources.
From Biosphere we congratulate The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama for measures such as the prevention of negative impacts, or the conservation and restoration of landscapes, biodiversity and geodiversity. Read on to know the rest.
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 strive to prevent the degradation of terrestrial ecosystems and habitats.
- They act to reduce the impacts of their activity on biodiversity.
- They carry out activities that respect the natural heritage and the local fauna.
- They help maintain the native flora and fauna, preventing the intrusion of invasive species.
Society and Culture
The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama's efforts to fight poverty are growing, read on to learn more:
In order to promote inclusive economic development, from this entity:
- They collaborate with programs and social projects in their environment.
- They promote social-economic growth in their environment.
- They participate in international humanitarian solidarity projects.
The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama has decided to strive to improve the well-being of others through initiatives related to Sustainable Development Goal 3.
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 collaborate with health systems in favor of collective health.
- They promote the adoption of healthier lifestyles and habits.
The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama 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.
Through sustainability, the role of women in companies can be strengthened. That's why The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama is committed to revising its organizational structure. Read on to find out how:
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.
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, The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama has decided to:
To work to avoid the pernicious effects of overcrowding, from this entity:
- 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 offer information about the local heritage and the traditions of the place.
- They provide information and access to accessible and more sustainable transport.
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 make known their commitments, good practices and sustainable efforts.
- They promote more responsible and participatory management systems.
- They inform about the available public services and the places of interest of the place.
- They use indicators to measure their sustainable progress.
- They care about knowing and improving the satisfaction of their customers.
- They use indicators to measure quality
- They apply policies against all forms of corruption and exploitation
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 The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama has managed to prove it.
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.
- Its gastronomic offer is prepared following health safety protocols.
The creation of decent and productive employment is one of the fundamental pillars of economic and sustainable growth, which is why The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama has decided to work along these lines.
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 The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama undertakes efforts such as:
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.
To incorporate equality criteria, in this entity:
- They apply social integration, non-discriminatory and inclusive policies.
- 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 The Ritz-Carlton Tenerife, Abama 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 create agreements and alliances in favor of sustainability
- They share their good practices and sustainable experiences with other entities.
- They collaborate with academic institutions in favor of sustainable development.
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