
Our approach to sustainability
Our Sustainability Framework integrates our CSR goals, philosophies & values with the quantifiable approach of ESG reporting.
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Growing high quality pearls requires pristine oceans with healthy, robust ecosystems. Protecting the environment is not a promotional strategy, it’s a business imperative.
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Atlas Pearls has a longstanding commitment through our sustainability programs to support local communities and maintain strong relationships with all of our stakeholders. Building on our existing sustainability efforts with the aim of improving transparency and monitoring our operational impacts on the environment and local communities we have established formal sustainability management and reporting processes.
To achieve this we undertook a process of engagement with internal and external stakeholders to understand the topics of importance and relevance to our business. Through this process, we identified several key Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) topics of priority to our stakeholders. These topics helped form the foundation and structure of our sustainability program moving forward and provide clear topics for data collection and reporting into the future.
Our Sustainability framework has been designed as an important tool to align and structure our projects and programs with achieving our long-term environmental, social and governance visions.
GRI reporting standards enable us to provide transparent and tangible data and a connection with the United Nations, Sustainability Development Goals (SDG’s) to ensure we are as a company are aligned with a global endeavor for sustainability.
Key areas of impact
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Social
Vision
Building, caring & respecting the people, communities & cultures we operate within.
Goals- Protect, rehabilitate and conserve all aspects of the environments we operate within.
- Implement innovative ideas and technology to continually improve the way we operate our business to reduce our environmental impact.
- Create awareness, transperancy and education about the materials we consume across our value chain.
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Environment
Vision
Protect and enhance the environments we work within for future generations.
Goals- Enable access to meaningful education and training for employees and local communities.
- Ensuring fair and equitable employment, diversity, working conditions, and human rights.
- Prioritise the safety and health of our people, their families and the communities we work within.
- Support and preserve indigenous culture, language and way of life.
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Governance
Vision
Business operations & processes that are ethical, lawful, transparent & fair.
Goals- Abiding by and respecting the local laws, regulations and processes.
- Identifying, managing and minimising business risks to protect the people, environment and business.
- Maximising the success of what we do through stakeholder engagement.