Costa Navarino has additional underlined its dedication and efficiency throughout sustainable golf course operations after The Dunes Course and The Bay Course each achieved GEO Licensed standing.
This distinction marks a big milestone in a long-standing dedication to fostering nature, conserving assets, including neighborhood worth, and taking local weather motion.
The certification is overseen and managed by the worldwide GEO Sustainable Golf Basis. Certification Supervisor Carole Kerrey commented: “Sustainability is a transparent precedence for Costa Navarino with proof throughout planning and operations on the Bay and Dunes programs; not solely satisfying the certification standards but in addition going past with some progressive initiatives. We sit up for seeing extra to come back.”
David Ashington, Basic Supervisor at Costa Navarino Golf, mentioned: “We’re delighted to realize GEO Licensed standing for The Dunes Course and The Bay Course. This worldwide certification acknowledges our long-standing dedication to sustainable golf growth. Because the launch of Costa Navarino – and even earlier than, throughout building – a number of ground-breaking initiatives had been launched, to make sure sustainable efficiency throughout the golf programs and the vacation spot. We work laborious to proceed bettering these practices and to make sure that all our golfers and company can get pleasure from the very best expertise in these spectacular pure environment.”
Costa Navarino is the primary multiple-course vacation spot within the Jap Mediterranean to realize this worldwide distinction. Some sustainability highlights from Costa Navarino’s Bay and Dunes golf services embrace:
Subtle water administration: A number of years earlier than the programs had been launched, intensive research for the provision of water assets within the area, shaped the idea for a sustainable water administration system. Water reservoirs had been particularly designed and constructed, absolutely built-in into the encompassing panorama, and crammed by lower than one per cent of the surplus run-off from native rivers. This water, along with extremely handled recycled water is greater than sufficient to cowl the irrigation wants Moreover, a sequence of water-saving measures are continuously utilized, primarily based on finest out there practices that concentrate on consumption monitoring (e.g. leak management, improved effectivity).
The complete irrigated grassed space on the Bay and Dunes programs has been decreased by 5 per cent and ten per cent respectively throughout 2023, by utilizing native vegetation and recycled olive tree wooden branches. Intensive work remains to be being carried out in 2024 to additional scale back the entire irrigated grass areas on each golf programs.
Local weather motion: Since 2009, Costa Navarino has joined forces with Stockholm College and the Academy of Athens to ascertain the Navarino Environmental Observatory (NEO), which has been on the forefront of analysis and training about local weather change and the atmosphere within the Jap Mediterranean area for the previous 15 years.
The greatest olive tree-transplanting programme in Europe: Greater than 7,000 bushes are replanted to this point throughout all areas at Costa Navarino.
The Bay Clubhouse is one of many first earth-sheltered clubhouses, guaranteeing it harmoniously blends into the pure panorama, with a complete of 27,500 vegetation and bushes each across the clubhouse and on its rooftop.
An on-going, intensive recycling program for paper, plastics, glass, used oil, batteries and natural waste.
Constructive wider financial influence in Messinia, by means of contribution with 11 per cent to the area’s GDP through the years (2006-2022), whereas producing one other 80 distinct providers within the wider space.
Environmental safety stays a key focus for Costa Navarino which was chosen as “Greatest Sustainable Vacation spot” globally by the World Journey & Tourism Council, whereas it was not too long ago named as ‘Europe’s Greatest Eco-Pleasant Golf Facility’ on the World Golf Awards.
The vacation spot enhanced additional its sustainable credentials by lowering emissions by 80 per cent for 2022 (in comparison with 2019), as a part of its decarbonization technique, aiming to realize net-zero operations for the services by 2050. Moreover, numerous large-scale initiatives have been applied, in step with Costa Navarino’s participation on the World Tourism Plastics Initiative, corresponding to working along with WWF Greece, for the discount of single use plastics which surpassed 50 per cent in 2023 (in comparison with 2019).
Bay Course / Costa Navarino Resort / The Dunes Course at Costa Navarino
