Galley Eco Capital Standards: Our Commitment to Sustainability
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Vision
It is imperative that we, the commercial real estate finance industry specifically and society as a whole, move toward sustainability. Our company, Galley Eco Capital, provides the commercial real estate finance industry, communities, and our society with tools to make sustainable financing and investment decisions. To that end, Galley Eco Capital strives to achieve the following ideals:
1. Economic success: Wise use of financial resources
a. Our economic prosperity: Our business is positioned to survive and prosper economically.
b. Client economic prosperity: We help our clients adopt sustainability principles and use them as a tool to survive and prosper economically.
c. Community economic prosperity: We help our community survive and prosper economically.
2. Social responsibility: Respect for people
d. Respect for employees. We treat our employees and subcontractors in a respectful, fair, non-exploitative way, especially with regard to compensation and benefits; promotion, training, and open, constructive dialogue with management; involvement in decision making and creating shared values; flexible working options that are safe, healthy, and non-coercive; rights of association and privacy; and in employment termination practices and work-life balance.
e. Diversity, fair hiring and promotion practices. We promote diversity and use hiring and internal promotion practices that are fair, responsible, and non-discriminatory for our employees, partners, and suppliers.
f. Responsible governance. We manage our risks properly, use our economic power responsibly, and operate our business in a way that is ethical and legal.
g. Respect for stakeholders. We are transparent, respectful, and fair to local populations, investors, suppliers, and other stakeholders outside our organization who may be affected by our operations. We work collaboratively with our communities to enhance the well-being of others.
h. Fair dealing with clients. We are honest and fair with our clients, competing fairly for their business, respecting their privacy, and providing them with prudent and effective advice under the conditions that we promise.
i. Promote human rights globally. We support the fair and dignified treatment of human beings everywhere.
3. Environmental responsibility: Respect for life, and wise use and management of natural resources
j. Resource conservation. We conserve our use of natural resources to the extent practicable.
k. Waste prevention and management. We reduce to the extent practicable the quantity and degree of hazard of the wastes we generate from our operations, and we handle them in a safe, legal, and responsible way to minimize their environmental effects.
l. Reduction of supply-chain impacts. We work with others in our supply chain to help assure adverse environmental impacts and risks associated with our products and services are reduced and properly controlled, and environmental benefits optimized.
m. Collaboration with communities. We collaborate with our communities to protect and improve the environment.
n. Promotion of best practices in commercial real estate and renewable energy finance and investment. We apply our expertise toward creating investments in projects that deal with energy and water conservation, environmentally sensitive design, responsible land use, social and environmental equity, and the greater use of renewable energy and materials.
