The Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative: The foundation for sound and sustainable climate strategies

Brazil

The Brazil GHG Protocol Program was launched May 12, 2008 in Brasilia to promote voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) management by building technical and institutional capacity for GHG accounting and reporting at the organizational level. It is a partnership of Brazil’s Ministry of Environment, the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development, the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, the World Business Council on Sustainable Development, and the World Resources Institute. Brazil is the third country after Mexico and the Philippines to develop a national GHG emissions program based on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol.

Click here to visit the Brazil GHG Protocol Program’s website.

 

Program Partners 

  • MMA - Brazilian Ministry of Environment
  • CEBDS - Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desensvolvimento Sustentável
  • FGV - Fundação Getúlio Vargas
  • WBCSD - World Business Council for Sustainable Development
  • WRI - World Resources Institute

 

Funders

 

FOUNDING MEMBERS

Twenty-seven founding member companies have joined the program for its pilot phase. Participation in the program is voluntary; participants receive training and capacity-building on GHG accounting issues in exchange for publishing annual GHG inventories.

The founding members are: 

· Alcoa (Aluminum)

· AMBEV (Beverage)

· Anglo American (Mining & Natural Resources)

· Arcelor Mittal (Steel)

· Banco do Brasil (Finance)

· Banco Itau (Finance)

· Banco Real (Finance)

· Bradesco (Finance)

· CNEC (Engineering)

· CESP (Energy) 

· Copel (Electrical Utility)

· Embraer (Aerospace)

· Energias do Brasil (Electrical Utility)

· Ford (Automotive)

· FURNAS Centrais Elétricas (Electrical Utility)

· Grupo Abril (Media)

· Natura (Cosmetics)

· O Boticario (Cosmetics)

· Petrobrás (Petroleum)

· Polícia Federal (Federal Police)

· Quattor Petroquímica (chemicals)

· Sadia (Food)

· Usina São João (Sugar Production)

· Votorantim (Manufacturing)

· WalMart Brasil (Retail)

· Whirlpool S.A. (Manufacturing)

 

OBSERVERS

  • CETESB - Companhia de Tecnologia de Saneamento Ambiental
  • ICLEI - Local Government of Sustainability

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