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LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
Criteria: Energy efficiency, water usage, material selection, and indoor environmental quality. Significance: Recognizes best-in-class building strategies and practices globally.
Green Key
Criteria: Reduction of environmental impact, implementation of sustainable practices, and education of staff and guests in sustainability. Significance: Helps travelers find environmentally friendly accommodations.
Green Globe
Criteria: Sustainable management and operations, social/economic actions, cultural heritage, and environmental preservation. Significance: Encourages improvement of sustainability within the travel and tourism industry.
EarthCheck
Criteria: Adherence to international norms of environmental performance and management, sustainable resource use, and social and cultural respect. Significance: Focuses on delivering quantifiable sustainability outcomes for tourism operators.
Travelife
Criteria: Effective sustainability policy, positive social and economic impacts, environmental protection, and cultural heritage conservation. Significance: Helps tourism accommodations manage and improve social and environmental impacts.
Rainforest Alliance Certification
Criteria: Biodiversity conservation, improved livelihoods and human well-being, natural resources conservation, and effective planning and farm management practices. Significance: Promotes and validates sustainable tourism practices within travel businesses.
BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method)
Criteria: Assessment of energy use, health and well-being, pollution, transport, materials, waste, ecology, and management processes. Significance: Helps investors, developers, design and construction teams, and occupants to measure their building's environmental performance.
ISO 14001
Criteria: Development of an environmental management system, continuous improvement, and compliance with applicable legal requirements. Significance: Provides tools for companies to design and implement an effective environmental management system.
Green Seal
Criteria: Development and utilization of products and services that reduce environmental impact and are sustainable. Significance: Ensures companies apply a life-cycle approach to environmental performance and practice.
STEP (Sustainable Tourism Education Program)
Criteria: Sustainable management, socio-economic contributions, cultural heritage preservation, and environmental conservation. Significance: Guides businesses in the tourism industry to improve sustainability practices.
Green Tourism
Criteria: Energy and water efficiency, waste management, biodiversity and more. Significance: It's the largest and most established sustainable certification program in the world.
EU Ecolabel
Criteria: Lower environmental impact of goods and services, a high level of environmental protection, and utility. Significance: Helps European consumers to identify products and services which have a reduced environmental impact throughout their life cycle.
Blue Flag
Criteria: Environmental Education and Information, Water Quality, Environmental Management, Safety and Services. Significance: Promotes sustainable tourism in freshwater and marine beaches, marinas, and sustainable boating tourism operators.
Green Restaurant Association
Criteria: Use of sustainable food, energy, water, waste, chemicals, disposables, and building materials. Significance: Offers certification for restaurants practicing environmental sustainability.
Audubon Green Leaf Eco-Rating Program
Criteria: Water quality management, resource conservation, habitat conservation, and environmental management. Significance: Assists travelers in making sustainable travel choices and promotes green tourism businesses.
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