Super Clubs - Breezes Runaway Bay achieves Green Globe Benchmarked Certificate
Jamaica (June 24, 2005) – Super Clubs - Breezes Runaway Bay has achieved the prestigious Green Globe Benchmarked Certificate under the new Green Globe Certification program, which recognizes the operation’s commitment to operating at the world’s highest environmental standard.
Breezes Runaway Bay has spent considerable time benchmarking its energy and water consumption, waste production and disposal, as well as implementing an integrated environmental and social policy. In particular it has achieved best practice results in energy consumption and solid waste production. These measures will deliver ongoing reduction of non-renewable resources, extensive cost savings, and secure a sustainable commercial and ecological future for the property.
Green Globe is the global benchmarking, certification, and improvement system assisting the international travel and tourism industry to attain sustainability. Green Globe provides a certification system that responds directly to the major environmental problems facing the planet, including the greenhouse effect, overuse of freshwater resources, destruction of biodiversity, production of solid and biological waste, and social issues.
“I am delighted that Breezes Runaway Bay has achieved Benchmarked status,” says Cathy Parsons, chief executive officer of GGAP International. “Breezes Runaway Bay is an inspiration to all those people committed to environmentally sustainable tourism. They have demonstrated through a variety of initiatives, that the business and its employees can make a difference to reducing their environmental impact. The commitment they have shown in signing up to participate in the Green Globe program and their achievements set an example for other businesses to follow.”
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