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Recognition for Metsä Board in sustainability and climate change efforts
Metsä Board’s Husum mill: cutting emissions, mitigating climate risks and developing the low-carbon economy
highest-rated companies for climate action and sustainable water management by CDP, formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project, a non-profit global environmental disclosure platform.
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eading European producer of paperboard, Metsä Board has been listed amongst the
Metsä Board has been included in the top 10 per cent of companies in the CDP Water A List for the third year running, and in the top 5 per cent of companies in the CDP Climate A List for a second year. Metsä Board also achieved Leadership status in the CDP Forest programme for a third year.
The listing recognises the
company’s activities in cutting emissions, mitigating climate risks and developing the low-carbon economy. “We’re delighted that
Metsä Board was once again rated among the world’s best performing companies by CDP,” says Mika Joukio, chief executive
of Metsä Board. “Sustainability actions should be initiated and driven by the company’s top management to ensure engagement throughout the business. For Metsä Board the reduction in CO2
emissions and
water usage have also delivered overall cost efficiencies along with sustainability benefits.”
Industry takes over environmental footprint method from EU
Rules that will help the paper industry in Europe to establish a reference tool for communicating the environmental performance of paper products to customers and consumers are to be adopted by the Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI). CEPI has told European Commission that it will take over Product Environmental Footprint Category Rules (PEFCR) prepared under a larger EU pilot on environmental footprints. “The PEFCR project promised to deliver a clear, simplified
November/December 2017
and workable method for environmental footprinting that our value chain could effectively use and rely upon. After more than four year’s work, the European Commission body in charge of the project is far from this objective. CEPI will now take the necessary measures to conclude the project and design a tool that is meaningful for business and workable for SMEs,” says Sylvain Lhôte, director general at CEPI, which represents 495 companies operating more than 900 pulp and paper mills in Europe.
Initiated in 2013, the
Intermediate Paper Pilot was meant to deliver a methodology for environmental footprinting of intermediate paper in a clear and workable format for all users. It was considered, at that time, that the workability of future PEF rules was imperative for the paper value chain, particularly SMEs. Led by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, however, the project has, says CEPI, since been turned into an overly academic tool and the process continuously delayed. The industry has therefore
decided to take back the lead from the European Commission and revise the PEFCR. In order to do so, CEPI has outlined a number of key steps in a letter sent to the Commission’s environment department. The process would lead to developing free software for calculating the environmental footprint of intermediate paper, which could be extended by the printing and paper converting associations to a tool for final paper products. CEPI believes these steps are achievable in the 2018-2019 period.
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