On October 19 in Rio de Janeiro – RJ, Celulose Irani received the 5th Brazilian Environmental Prize, won for the Best Work on Air 2010, with the case on the Greenhouse Gases Inventory and Related Innovative Activities.
This Award is an initiative of the Jornal do Brasil and it aims to reward and publicize, annually, the most outstanding initiatives in the country that conciliate production activities with environmental protection and inform society that in the Brazilian productive sector there is already concerns to reconcile their production activities with the preservation of the environment and communities, in accordance with the principles of sustainable development.
The winning case form Celulose Irani, the Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) Inventory, made IRANI the first Brazilian company to certify the GHG inventory in accordance with ISO 14064, 2006 standard.
In 2009, Irani removed 662,971 tons of CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent) from the atmosphere. During the same period, greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions were 20,055 tons of CO2e, giving a final balance of 602,916 tons of CO2e. Taking into account the cumulative results of 2006, in 2009 the Company reached an accumulated surplus of 2,228,316 tons of CO2e.
The practice of management and implementation of the corporate GHG inventory is already consolidated in IRANI. For over four years of the inventory, the sequestering of more than 2.2 million tons of CO2e emissions has been accounted for, discounting emissions. This figure that shows the Company´s contribution to the issue of alleviating global warming reinforces once again the position of the company as being Carbon Neutral, by sequestering more carbon than it emits.
