WE TAKE CARE OF THE
environment
WE TAKE CARE OF THE
meio ambiente
biodiversity
JIRAU ENERGIA maintains a number of social and environmental programs that ensure the continuous monitoring of wild fauna and flora in the perimeter of the Jirau HPP. We invest in qualitative and quantitative population studies of the species in the region in order to ensure the preservation of biodiversity and the biotic integrity of ecosystems.
Recovery
of degraded Areas
The implementation of Jirau HPP led to interference in the physical environment, with the need to recover the region at the end of construction. The recovery process for the Jirau HPP areas covered the stages of planning, cleaning, recomposition and monitoring of the degraded perimeter aiming at the rehabilitation of its ecological functions, as well as the management and preservation of areas not affected by the construction.
Clean Development
mechanism
reduction of
6 million
tonnes of CO2 per year
Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) are one of the flexibilisation instruments created by the Kyoto Protocol to assist the process of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Jirau Energia is certified by the United Nations (UN) for its work on Jirau HPP, considered the world’s largest CDM-registered renewable energy project, where carbon credits are generated by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Since the plant was completed in 2016, about 6 million Certified Emission Reductions are generated each year.
reduction of
per year
Sustainability
protocol
JIRAU ENERGIA received a good evaluation in the Hydroelectric Sustainability Assessment Protocol, a mechanism created by the International Hydropower Association (IHA) to evaluate the sustainability of hydroelectric projects in all phases of implementation and covering several areas such as climate change, corruption, human rights, complaint mechanisms, integrated management of water resources, transparency and other issues related to sustainability the addition of hydroelectric projects.
Also to ensure good practices in our social and environmental processes, we support the UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are present in the actions of our programs.
Socio-environmental
programs
Socio-environmental
programs
JIRAU ENERGIA invests in actions that take care of people, fauna and flora, and contribute to the Company being the reference in renewable energy generation in the Amazon. All our social and environmental programs are developed by a team of multidisciplinary experts in partnership with renowned universities, research centers and consulting companies.
Environmental
Licensing
Environmental licensing is an instrument of prevention and inspection, established by the National Environment Policy (Federal Law No. 6,938/1981), in order to help combat practices that may pollute or degrade the environment.
