Our Sustainability Commitment - BeMetrio

Building a more sustainable future

"Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. [...] … It underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known."

Carl Sagan, 1994

Sustainability at Metrio

Since 2009, our team has been on a mission to ensure a more sustainable future, inspired by the fact that we live on a 'pale blue dot' and driven by the simple idea that we can improve what we can measure. Today, our growing team continues to take action and lead by example with company-wide initiatives.

BeMetrio is our belief that meaningful impact on our environment and society starts from within, which is why our team chooses to drive the positive impact that we want to see from others.

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Minimizing our environmental impact

As a software company, our footprint is naturally lower compared to other industries. However, we strive to go further: As a sustainability business, we aim to be carbon positive. We drive towards a positive impact on our planet and our local environment. Since 2009, we’ve helped over 100 organizations across the globe track their progress and achieve goals to lessen their footprint. Even more, we develop and implement initiatives of our own, such as choosing carbon neutral servers, compensating for business travel, and tracking our own activities to continually improve.

Making a difference for our team and community

Our culture, supported by many policies, advocates for a flexible and inclusive environment where employees are more than encouraged to pursue personal projects within the company as well as to prioritize work-life balance. Since 2016, we have been dedicating paid time off and resources for pro-bono projects. These projects, such as our work with Sentier Urbain in Montréal and other local volunteering activities, allow us to share our expertise and contribute to our city and community’s development.

Entrenching our values in our governance

BeMetrio is more than a slogan. Each member of our team drives our values and commitments towards a positive impact on the planet. We are constantly evolving and growing, which is why we invite new ideas, initiatives and recommendations. Each individual at our organization has a voice and we provide multiple platforms to ensure they are heard. For those that feel more comfortable working remotely or from home, our policy invites our teammates to travel and work at a distance. With our headquarters based in the heart of Mile End, employees that want to come to the office can easily walk, bicycle or take nearby and accessible public transit.

What are some of our initiatives?

Each individual in our team is passionate about helping make our “pale blue dot” a better place to live, which is why we continuously strive to be better and to measure our progress.As part of our mission, we are proud to support the following initiatives and organizations.

Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact

We support the Ten Principles of the United Nations Global Compact. We are committed to making the UN Global Compact and its principles part of our strategy, culture and day-to-day operations.

United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

We support and continue to demonstrate our participation towards the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or Global Goal. These are a collection of 17 interlinked goals meant to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all". The SDGs were set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly and intended to be achieved by 2030.

We empower organizations that seek to do good

We leverage our in-house ESG expertise and software to provide Sentier Urbain, a non-profit organization, the capabilities to report on their sustainability progress and environmental impact.
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Sentier Urbain is a non-profit organization with a mission to mobilize communities for social greening. Since 1993, Sentier Urbain has been working to bring people and nature closer together through its three areas of action: Mobilizing, Educating and Greening.

We support locally

We support locally with regular volunteering initiatives to Moisson Montreal, a charitable organization that has existed since 1984. They are the largest food bank in Canada, with a mission to supply food to community organizations serving people in precarious situations on the island of Montreal.

We volunteer and promote non-profit work

We volunteer locally and promote non-profit work in our company culture by providing all of our employees with paid time off for charity work.

We believe that each individual should be given the opportunity and support to take on volunteering initiatives that are important to them and where they believe they can drive a positive impact. At the end of the day, each person’s actions combine to achieve the same mission - to create a more sustainable future.