Transat Corporate Responsibility Report, 2008 - For Sustainable ...

Protecting the environment and biodiversity, and its corollary–minimizing the potentially undesirable impacts of tourism,
including greenhouse gas emissions–is one of the pillars of sustainable tourism. In recent years, with the enthusiastic
support of all its employees, Transat has considerably stepped up efforts in this regard. A number of programs have been
initiated, some of them under the auspices of a dozen task forces, located in each of the geographical sites where we
have permanent facilities.
Reduce
Reuse
Recycle
Recover
In terms of sustainability, one of our first tasks has been to
work on the management of resources. Having noted that
some existing recycling programs were incomplete or underperforming,
we implemented new reduction, reuse and
recycling initiatives, which quickly generated tangible results.
At the same time, we began the complex task of drawing
up a comprehensive environmental baseline, with an eye to
quantifying objectives and facilitating long-term planning.
To this end, we sought and obtained the collaboration of our
building owners, which of course is essential to the process.
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