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Nossa Missão

Criar um bilhão de PADI Torchbearers para explorar e proteger o oceano.

Nossa abordagem de responsabilidade social corporativa baseia-se no legado longo e duradouro da organização para proteger o mundo subaquático que amamos. Como a maior rede de centros de mergulho, instrutores de mergulho e mergulhadores, temos uma tremenda oportunidade de mobilizar milhões de PADI Torchbearers para salvar o oceano.

A PADI está posicionada de forma única para desempenhar um papel no esforço global para criar um futuro mais sustentável e estamos comprometidos em criar iniciativas baseadas em soluções com impacto duradouro.

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PILARES DA MUDANÇA PADI℠

Uma das maneiras mais significativas de honrar nosso legado e retribuir às gerações atuais e futuras é fazer nossa parte para operar a organização PADI com responsabilidade, apoiar uma indústria de mergulho sustentável e proteger o oceano do qual toda a vida depende.

Os Pilares da Mudança refletem os valores centrais da marca PADI e os compromissos que temos para a melhoria das pessoas e do planeta. Buscar ativamente um curso de ação para enfrentar os desafios oceânicos envolvendo as comunidades locais é fundamental para alcançar o equilíbrio entre a humanidade e a natureza.

PILLAR ONE

Ocean Conservation

Empower our community to take local action for global impact.

PADI’s first pillar of change, Ocean Conservation, reflects both the organization’s long-standing ethos to protect the aquatic environment and the renewed commitment to take focused action that leads to lasting positive change for the ocean. By empowering millions of divers around the world with the ability to take focused conservation action, we believe that change is possible.

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Ocean Conservation Highlights

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PADI Blueprint for Ocean Action

PADI and PADI AWARE Foundation authored the PADI Blueprint for Ocean Action, a joint conservation framework that defines conservation targets across 5 key areas aimed at increasing total ocean protection to 30% by 2030.

PADI AWARE Grant Program

To date, AWARE has distributed $2 Million to 51 Grantees for in-country work directly supporting the PADI Blueprint for Ocean Action. In 2022, the Foundation dedicated 24% of its public funds to Grants with plans to fund $1 million by 2024.

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Underwater Citizen Science Programs and Events

Divers around the world can participate in conservation-focused courses as well as conservation events at PADI Centers all around the globe, directly creating more resilient local economies and marine ecosystems.

PILLAR TWO

Dive Industry Sustainability

Reduce the global environmental footprint of the dive industry.

PADI’s second Pillar of Change, Dive Industry Sustainability, was created to leverage PADI’s global influence as a means to encourage all key stakeholders across the dive industry to take actions that reduce environmental impact and increase the reputation of diving as a regenerative activity with positive benefits for people and planet.

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Dive Industry Sustainability Highlights

PADI Eco Centers

The very best of PADI’s environmentally-committed dive centers have met a challenging threshold of environmental performance, recognized in partnership with Reef World Foundation, who operates the Green Fins initiative in partnership with the UN Environment Program.

The Power of Diving and the Blue Economy

Through partnership with Scripps and National Geographic Pristine Seas, estimated the global economic total of the diving sector, helping to position PADI and diving as key contributors to the blue ocean economy.

Dive Industry Sustainability: What is PADI Doing?

As a leading global ocean exploration and diving organization with a longstanding commitment to conservation, PADI is in a unique position to set high standards for dive industry sustainability.

PILLAR THREE

People and Humanity

Foster diversity and inclusion and support local dive communities.

PADI’s third Pillar of Change, People and Humanity, is borne from PADI’s core belief that aquatic environments should be accessible to all. As a global organization, we continually strive to foster an environment of openness across the dive industry with a shared understanding that ‘underwater we all speak the same language.'

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People and Humanity Highlights

PADI Blueprint for People and Humanity

One of the three areas of focus of the People & Humanity Blueprint, Promote Healing and Wellness, also compliments PADI's vision to restore balance between humanity and ocean. Read how underwater immersion can benefit overall health and mental well-being.

PADI Adaptive Services Faciliities

To increase access for all to the underwater world, PADI recognizes PADI Adaptive Service Facilities that have invested in comprehensive operational services and infrastructure that meet the needs of divers with physical, psychological or mental challenges to promote inclusivity in its diver training programs and other dive activities.

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PADI Women's Dive Day

2023 marks the 9th year of the PADI Women in Diving Initiative. Earmarked by the global flagship dive event hosted each year on the 3rd Saturday of July, the effort as helped decreased the gnder gap in diving and increased female recreational dive certifications by an average of 10% since 2015.

Discover the Healing Power of Diving

A PADI Adaptive Service Facility is an operation that has invested in comprehensive operational services and infrastructure that meet the needs of divers with physical, psychological or mental challenges to promote inclusivity in its diver training programs and other dive activities.

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