Azores Adventures – Futurismo
Sustainability Policy
Our vision is to be a leader in educative and impactful tourism experiences, educating and transforming our stakeholders towards a more proactive life and defense of our people, planet, and wildlife.
By will and by the own nature of our vision, this can only be achieved through business practices that are designed to create value in both the short and long term, trying to maximize positive impacts and minimize eventual negative impacts on our community, wildlife, and planet, throughout all our value chain, with ethics and transparent conduct.
Our Principles:
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Sustainability must be a part of all of the moments of our work.
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Our strategic decisions must be in line with our purpose.
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Our environmental policy must be enforced at all times.
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Every moment of our operation must have animal welfare in consideration as per our animal welfare policy.
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To comply with all applicable legislation, regulations and codes of practice, by following them and trying to improve the praxis in our activities.
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To ensure that all our staff is fully aware of our Sustainability Policy and is committed to following and improving it.
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To make our partners, and stakeholders at large, aware of our Sustainability Policy, and encourage them to adopt sound sustainable management practices.
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Seek to improve the way we measure and report our sustainability practices.
What we are doing?
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Be a part of and collaborate in initiatives and organizations towards awareness and improvement of sustainability efforts (ex. Guardians of the Azores project)
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Promote events and programs to our stakeholders about conservation and sustainability.
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Pursue equality, non-discrimination and the protection of human rights in all that we do.
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Educate our community and visitors on environmental and cultural themes through our open conferences.
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Reduce and eradicate, the use of single plastic, whenever possible.
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Reduce the consumption of energy, water and products at large.
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Maximize our experiences to increase fuel efficiency.
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Spend more than 90% of our costs in the Azorean community.
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Employ 100% local residents, with full-time, year-round, contracts.
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Cooperate with multiple social institutions to give access to our experiences to an audience that couldn´t benefit from them otherwise.
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Increase the life cycle of our equipment.
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Supporting nature restoration through our experiences, awareness, and engagement.
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Preparing the measurement, reduction, and compensation of our carbon emissions.
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Training our staff in management techniques for better sustainability actions, in what concerns measurement and reporting.
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