Celulose Irani received in April, in Bento Gonçalves – RS, the Fiema award for 2010, that it won with the case “Technologies used for Reducing the Emissions of Greenhouse Gases” in the Environmental Technology category
This event is promoted by the International Technology Fair for the Environment (Fiema), and the award is intended to be presented to Non Governmental Organizations (NGO´s), students, educational and governmental institutions and other institutions that are in line with environmental legislation that is in force. The objective is to recognize the best initiatives that aim to minimize the environmental impacts, ensuring the sustainability of current and future generations, and promoting environmental awareness.
The award is divided into three categories: educational, environmental technology and social environmental. The second, in which IRANI was classified, awards initiatives to ensure the adoption of techniques that result in the reduction of adverse environmental impacts, such as the optimization of production processes, equipment for the control of pollution, environmentally appropriate products, processes for reducing the consumption of natural resources, among others.
For the evaluation, the criteria that were used was the environmental performance (the results obtained from the implementation of the project), the degree of importance (representing the project’s importance to society), innovation (evaluates the innovative features of the project); potential for dissemination (representing the capacity for the extension of the projects results to other situations and locations) and sustainability (assessing whether the project is economically viable and the amount of resources necessary for its perpetuation).
The winning project from IRANI – Technologies used for the Reducing of Emissions of Greenhouse Gases – was developed by the Company as a contribution to reduce the problem of global warming. The Greenhouse Gases inventory (GHG) is used to obtain information that allows the Company to minimize and balance the greenhouse gases emission in IRANI´s operating activities. Through the inventory is possible to evaluate the balance between emissions and the removals and the possibilities of neutralization.
