Sustainability

Central to the corporate ethos of Atlancific are its layers of responsibility to its people, partners, customers and communities around it. Responsibility is the core of our culture, an expression of our work ethic, idiosyncrasy and the forms of interactions that exists between us and our various customers, partners, and society around us.

We consider as top priority the health, safety and development of our employees and partners on our work sites. As a result, we put in a place robust policies and interventions, to prevent and minimize accidents, including occupational diseases at our facilities.

To ensure that our work conditions are safe for all, we assess, monitor, and control health risks to our people and host communities. Considering that we also trade on mines and metals commodities, we abhor every form of child labour in our work sites, especially within artisan and small scale mining.

At Atlancific, we support schemes that spur economic growth and add value to the social and environmental efforts of our company and society around us. We invest extensive efforts in resource conservation, environmental stewardship and socio-environmental education. In Atlancific, this takes the form of a system and company-wide process.

We exploit every possible opportunity to play active role in the lives of local communities around us and to ensure that our operations leave positive impacts on their environment. For example, Atlancific has developed a number of syndicated urban and culture related events, which they intend to implement either solely or outsourced to willing partners for implementation.  One of such events is a street festival, while the other is a music festival.

At Atlancific, we are mindful of the risks associated with our industry and are proactive in or responsibility on matters of health and safety and the environment in all our operations. In so doing, we align our operations with the requirements of global conventions, which affect commodity trading, in relation to sustainability, and also embrace partners that share similar ethics.

To this end, we conduct rigorous risk based Know-Your-Client (KYC) checks on all our partners and clients, in an on-going process. Similarly, we ensure that our operation is compliant with applicable laws and regulations, including international conventions and sanctions.

Atlancific is an apolitical entity, with a zero tolerant level for corrupt practices in its fold. We fully abide the United Nation’s principle on Human Rights and the dignity of all humanity.

Atlancific is committed to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDGs 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 17. For example, we work to attain a healthy living and the promotion of well-being for all at all ages, according to SDG3. We also promote inclusiveness and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all, in line with SDG 8. Similarly, in our operations, we adopt the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) principles 5 & 8.

ICMM’s principle 5 requires:

1. A continuous improvement in health and safety performance for all employees, contractors, and people in our communities.
2. Elimination of workplace fatalities, injuries and diseases among employees
3. Provision and assurance of employee health and safety training
4. Implementation of regular health surveillance and risk-based monitoring of employees and ensure their rehabilitation and integration to work after illness or injuries.

In the same vein, ICMM principle 8, among other requirements, demands:

1. The advancement of understanding of the properties of metals and minerals and their life cycle effects on human health and the environment.
2. The conduct or support of research and innovation that promotes the use of products and technologies that are safe and efficient in their use of energy, natural resources and other materials.
3. Development and promotion of the concept of integrated materials management throughout the metals and minerals value chain.
4. Provision of regulators and other stakeholders with scientifically sound data and analysis regarding our products and operations, on which they can make regulatory decisions.
5. Support for the development of scientifically sound policies, regulations, products standards and material choices that encourage the safe use of mineral and metal products.

Our responsibility to our partner farmers and the various sources of the commodity we trade is constant. We assist farmers to increase their productivity and livelihoods, by providing access to markets for their products and by promoting among them principles that supports a sustainable future. We are of the hope that this will ensure increased productivity and global food security.

Our expertise in supply chain management enables us to identify and create opportunities that improve the sustainability of the process. For example, we subscribe to the principles of the Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), which is focused on improving global cotton production and the welfare of cotton farmers and their environment.

On the question of palm oil trading, we subscribe to the principles canvassed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) and the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC), which is an institution that certifies palm oil products.