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2019

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“Our 2019 Tropicalia Sustainability Report recounts our performance, while reflecting upon the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead of us. When confronting the uncertainties of climate change or the global health crisis we are facing, our sustainable approach to business is the best line of defense.”

ADRIANA CISNEROS DE GRIFFIN

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EARLY WORKS

Bouygues Construcciones República Dominicana (BCRD), mobilized its team to begin preparatory work in the first quarter of 2020.

ENVIRONMENTAL & SOCIAL COMPLIANCE

Tropicalia georeferenced critical tree species to be protected during early works and developed its own Environmental and Social Management System.

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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Fundación Tropicalia celebrated its 10-year anniversary with an itinerant photography exhibition, which showcased the foundation’s community development work throughout the years.

AWARDS & CONFERENCES

Tropicalia and Fundación Tropicalia are internationally acclaimed with award-winning programs and invited to showcase their stories in global and regional venues.

2019
highlights

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Tropicalia

Tropicalia is a sustainable luxury resort development created by Cisneros Real Estate located on the Costa Esmeralda shoreline in Miches, Dominican Republic, the most internationally accessible, emerging tourist destination in the Caribbean.

KEY COMMITMENTS TO SUSTAINABILITY

SOUND BUSINESS

Making Adjustments

We previously defined this commitment as “Economic Sustainability,” and modified it to “Sound Business” as it more accurately reflects how we balance financial, environmental, social and aesthetic viability when making business decisions for Tropicalia. In 2019, we focused efforts on structuring early works activities and developing internal environmental and social controls and management systems.

  • General Contractor, Bouygues Construcciones República Dominicana, developed an Environmental, Social, Health and Safety program for the construction of Four Seasons Tropicalia, in accordance with the Environmental and Social Performance Standards of the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), and committed to applying these guidelines to their entire supply chain of subcontractors.
  • Tropicalia developed its own Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS), which complies with 50% of the action items listed in the project’s Environmental and Social Action Plan. Our ESMS also defined our Corporate Policy Statement and the programs, procedures and plans that support the continuous improvement and monitoring of Tropicalia’s environmental and social performance, with specific focus on environment, health and safety (EHS); contractor and hotel management; capturing external and internal grievances; voluntary and mandatory compliance with local and international conventions and regulations; and stakeholder engagement.
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THOUGHTFUL ARCHITECTURE

The Importance of Sustainable Design

Four Seasons Tropicalia is pursuing the United States Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED certification and will comply with IFC’s rigorous standards for Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies (EDGE).

  • Four Seasons Tropicalia will be required to achieve a minimum of 20% energy and water savings, as well as 20% savings of embodied energy in materials. We anticipate achieving up to 50% energy savings thanks to the implementation of passive cooling design strategies, such as green roofs and open corridors.
  • At completion, the project is anticipating LEED Silver certification, corresponding to 50-59 points for sustainable design, construction and operation strategies ranging across seven categories: sustainable sites, water use reduction, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, indoor air quality, innovation and regional priority.
  • Dominican Republic’s most renowned botanists curated our species selection for Four Seasons Tropicalia landscape design, ensuring that we only use indigenous, non-invasive species, contributing to biodiversity conservation and responsible water use.
  • The architectural design of Four Seasons Tropicalia is low density and prioritizes open space, accounting for passive cooling systems throughout. This key attribute of sustainable design increases resiliency and allows the project to manage the new realities posed by social distancing.

ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE

Our Management Systems and Programs

Tropicalia protects and conserves the natural environment using sustainable site development and destination management to maintain biological integrity, habitat connectivity, and green space. 

  • Tropicalia, and a group of important investors in Miches, began organizing the El Seibo-Miches Hotel and Restaurant Association with the vision of positioning Miches as a sustainable tourism destination, support the co-management of coastal spaces and identify solutions for responsible water use and solid waste management, among other objectives. See more about this effort in Destination Management.
  • We identified and georeferenced a total of 82 endangered Roystonea hispaniolana (Palma real), Sabal causiarum (Palma cana), Bactris plumeriana (Palma catey), and Pterocarpus officinalis (Drago) trees to be avoided and/or transplanted during early works in 2020.
  • We submitted Tropicalia’s 13th Environmental Compliance Report (ICA) to the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.
  • We continued implementing maintenance and clean-up efforts of the Costa Esmeralda beachfront, as well as our recycling efforts on site.

COMMUNITY ADVANCEMENT

Fundación Tropicalia

The community development efforts undertaken by Fundación Tropicalia (FT) are a key component of Tropicalia’s goal in building local capacity and expanding economic opportunities while preserving the region’s natural and cultural heritage.

  • FT impacted the lives of 2,589 beneficiaries (59% female and 41% male), by successfully implementing eight programs in 2019.
  • In 2019, FT celebrated its tenth anniversary with an itinerant photography exhibition in collaboration with the artist, Fer Figheras. We launched the exhibition in Miches, where it was on display in the municipal park for two weeks, and subsequently traveled to four additional locations in Punta Cana and Santo Domingo, generating awareness of FT’s activities over the last decade.
  • Soy niña, soy importante (SNSI, I’m a Girl, I’m Important) was awarded four international recognitions for excellence.
  • FT launched two pilot programs in 2019, under the Productivity program area. One encourages women to establish organic home gardens, and the other provides entrepreneurial training for farmers, some of which were previous participants of ¡Miches, sí!
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Fundación
Tropicalia

Fundación Tropicalia drives sustainable, socioeconomic development in the Miches community by striking multi-sector partnerships and working with the local community in the areas of education, environment, productivity and sociocultural advocacy.

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Global
Reporting
Initiative

This is our fourth year referencing the guidelines and disclosures established by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Our report is self-assured and our index includes the G-4 GRI Sustainability Reporting Standards that are material to Tropicalia, Fundación Tropicalia, and our industry.

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