COMMUNITY PROGRAMME
The principal objective of the Community programme is to facilitate responsible and sustainable environmental outcomes for communities. The programme provides communities with a framework to benchmark and certify their environmental and social performance, and then challenge them to continuously improve that performance over time.
The Benchmarking and Certification process focuses on making operational improvements – this can provide great marketing opportunities as you communicate some of your key achievements. The programme also provides connections to an international organisation that is highly respected.
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THE COMMUNITY PROCESS
The Community programme underpinned by the Community Standard which consists of six elements; all aimed at ensuring the Community achieves environmental sustainability. A brief description of each element follows below.
COMMUNITY AUTHORITY:
The Community Authority shall be properly constituted and have organisational frameworks as well as a mandate to provide leadership for the management of sustainable environmental and social outcomes.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK:
The community must provide evidence that it is compliant within the requirements and intents of law that prevail locally.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY POLICY:
The community must prepare an Environmental and Social Sustainability policy which is appropriate to the location, nature, environmental, social and political context of the Community and specifically includes tourism activity and development issues.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY PLANNING SYSTEMS:
The community will develop a Community Sustainability Strategy which shall define key environmental and social issues as guided by Green Globe’s performance areas, and specifically address tourism activity and prescribe corrective actions based on performance monitoring.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY BENCHMARKING:
The community must assess the environmental and social performance in positive and negative impacts in the following key Community Performance Areas:
- Sustainability Policy
- Energy Consumption
- Potable Water Consumption
- Solid Waste Reduction
- Environmental Investment
- Resource Conservation
- Improved Social & Cultural Interactions
- Enhanced Local Socio-economic Benefits
- Biodiversity Conservation
- Air and Water Quality
COMMUNITY CONSULTATION AND PERFORMANCE REPORTING:
The Community shall establish effective consultative mechanisms and strategies to ensure all sections of the Community are able to participate in developing the Community’s Sustainability Strategy.
Once these steps have been completed, organisations will be assessed under set criteria in order to achieve ‘Certified’ status as a Community.
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For information on registration program fees, please contact community@ec3global.com
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