{"id":19887,"date":"2010-04-12T14:05:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T12:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iberpapel.ciset.net\/en\/?p=19887"},"modified":"2021-06-15T14:09:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T12:09:41","slug":"iberpapel-group-plantations-reach-over-16-million-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/iberpapel-group-plantations-reach-over-16-million-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Iberpapel Group plantations reach over 16 million trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CO2 eliminated by Iberpapel\u2019s forest plantations is equivalent to the carbon<br \/>\nemissions generated annually by 235,000 people.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Around 40% of Group investment in the last ten years has been earmarked to<br \/>\nimproving its environmental record. The environmental management work put in by<br \/>\nIberpapel has been acknowledged with the European Business Award for the<br \/>\nEnvironment in the Management award for sustainable development category<br \/>\nunder the Basque award scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The number of trees planted across the Iberpapel Group\u2019s various forest plantations has<br \/>\nsurpassed the 16 million mark, eliminating carbon emissions equivalent to those<br \/>\ngenerated by cities of the size of Vitoria (with 235,000 inhabitants), Granada (234,000),<br \/>\nOviedo (224,000) or La Coru\u00f1a (246,000).<\/p>\n<p>Iberpapel has forest plantations in Spain (6,117 hectares in the province of Huelva),<br \/>\nUruguay (10,551 hectares) and Argentina (8,537 hectares). The company works with<br \/>\nthe Eucalyptus Globulus species. Its forestry strategy is one of forest repopulation with<br \/>\na view to self supplying 30% of the primary raw material needed in its paper making<br \/>\nfacilities.<\/p>\n<p>Environmental protection and sustainable development are built into the company\u2019s<br \/>\neveryday activities. The company\u2019s Uruguayan initiative for the reforestation of<br \/>\ndegraded land with silvopastoral systems, being implemented by Group subsidiary Los<br \/>\nEucaliptus, enjoys the backing of Uruguay\u2019s Department of Agriculture and Forestation,<br \/>\nas is evidenced by the fact that the authorities presented the project before the FAO<br \/>\nCommittee on Forestry (COFO) in Rome in March 2007.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mart\u00edn Arregui, who is in charge of the Group\u2019s environmental<br \/>\nmanagement division, <em>\u201cAt Iberpapel we are working hard to make our growth more <\/em><br \/>\n<em>sustainable. The integration of environmental indicators into our business management <\/em><br \/>\n<em>represents an opportunity to contribute to development by reducing our environmental <\/em><br \/>\n<em>fallout by promoting energy efficiency, using renewable energy sources or raising our <\/em><br \/>\n<em>capacity to capture CO2 through our forests\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Values, milestones and challenges<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iberpapel\u2019s environmental performance has been acknowledged internationally. Its<br \/>\nenvironmental management approach translates into quantifiable milestones such as<br \/>\nreduced power consumption, lower overall carbon emissions, reduced water<br \/>\nconsumption and lower waste generation. The company has devoted significant<br \/>\nresources to this effort, specifically 40% of total investment during the last ten years.<\/p>\n<p>The main challenges successfully overcome by Iberpapel include the integration of its<br \/>\nenvironmental management policy into its business strategy and management.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"head-document\">Related documents<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"\/archives\/press-release\/NdP-12-04-2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" download=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Press release\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/icondescarga.png\" \/>Press release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CO2 eliminated by Iberpapel\u2019s forest plantations is equivalent to the carbon emissions generated annually by 235,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iberpapel.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}