Sustainability

Products and Services:

• Strategic planning for sustainability
• Strategic Environmental Assessment
• Evaluation of environmental performance in supply chains or in APL
• Environmental management systems and ecoeficience
• Balance environment
• Structuring a model for registration of emissions and transfers of pollutant
• ECOPOLIS development
• Assistance for the structuring of municipal MA
• Programs of disclosure, valuation and management of environmental services
• Environmental audits of responsibility (Due Diligence) and legal compliance

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According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate Governance is "a set of practices which aims to optimize the performance of the company to protect all stakeholders, including investors, employees and creditors by facilitating access to capital. The analysis of corporate governance practices applied to the capital market involves: transparency, equal treatment of shareholders and accountability. "

Thus, for investors, the analysis of corporate governance assists in making investment decision, because the governance determines the level and kind of role they can play in a company, enabling them to exert influence on company performance.

The document Code of Best Practice for Corporate Governance, the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance - IBGC, the four main goals, which are considered as basic principles are: transparency, fairness, accountability, corporate responsibility, all essential for achieving the Governance Strategy.


Transparency: more than having an obligation to inform the top management should cultivate the desire to communicate and inform, both internally and externally, in a clear, spontaneous, straightforward and fast, thus creating a climate of trust. The communication should not be restricted to financial performance, but should also consider other factors (including intangible assets).

Equity: fair and equal treatment of all minority groups are the shareholders or other interested parties (stakeholders).

Accountability (accountability): officers of corporate governance should be accountable for their actions to those who elected them and respond fully to all actions which they take in office.

Corporate Responsibility: Board members and officers must ensure the survival of organizations (long-term vision, sustainability) and thus should incorporate considerations of social and environmental considerations in defining the business and operations. It is a broader view of business strategy.


Sustainability in the book business: practical guide economic, environmental and social João Furtado defines eco-efficiency as the supply of goods and services on a price-competitive, so as to meet human needs while progressively reducing ecological impacts and intensity of resource use.