Environment
As a socially responsible business ESTA Holding believes that business growth and development must be sustainable both economically and environmentally.Caring for environment and reducing the impact that business has on the environment are important aspects of ESTA Holding's actions as a responsible corporate citizen.

Vision

For us, being an environmentally responsible company means:

  • work to reduce the footprint of construction and maintenance cycles of ESTA Group's assets on the environment (soil, air, water and eco-systems);
  • invest in environmentally friendly technologies;
  • work to improve environmental performance of our business;
  • strive to use natural resources more efficiently.

Policy

ESTA Holding regards environmental sustainability as an integral part of business operations and implements the developed and approved policy with the following core principles:

  • Complying with and where possible exceed all legal standards on environment protection. Supporting law-making initiatives to encourage investment in environment. Supporting implementation of international environmental standards in Ukraine;
  • Assessing, monitoring and managing possible risks to the environment and communities of our business cycles;
  • Reducing or preventing the risk of pollution through application of the latest technologies and processes to protect the environment;
  • Constantly striving to cut energy consumption and introduce energy saving technologies in all areas of our operations;
  • Always looking to apply efficient and environmentally friendly technologies when investing in new projects;
  • Working with NGOs, government and local communities to address their environmental concerns and take their views into account in our policy and decision making;
  • Looking to protect the ecology and biodiversity in the areas where we operate and encourage our employees to do likewise. Disclosing environmental performance of the group.

Through the environmental policy principles listed above, we continually seek to improve ESTA Group’s environmental performance and to set a good example and become the clear leader in Ukraine in this area.

Actions

ESTA Holding regularly studies the opportunities to use energy saving resources at its sites. Such programmes are used in Leonardo business centre and taken into account for construction of the new facilities like mixed-use complex Pushkinskiy and a Centre on Frolovskaya street.

 The managing company ESTA Property Management uses environmentally friendly materials in maintaining facilities on the regular basis. The Group's hotels are determined to cut down the use of chemical substances and their impact on environment to the maximum possible extent.