For the fourth year in a row, our company achieved carbon neutrality for the event
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Buenos Aires, October 18, 2022. Under the motto “Compromising to Grow,” a new edition of the IDEA Seminar took place on October 12, 13 and 14 in Mar del Plata. This is the most renowned forum in the business sphere that promotes the growth and competitiveness of the companies in the country. During the seminar, where the main players of society gathered together, discussions were held about Argentina’s insertion into the world; employment, education; public finance and game rules.
Following this line, Genneia, the leading renewable power generation company in Argentina, offset the carbon footprint of the event with Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) from its clean energy generation plants to reduce the environmental impact. The carbon footprint of the event, which included previous organization, was estimated by the specialized consultancy company ProSustentia.
In this way, Genneia delivered to IDEA the cancellation certificates including the equivalent carbon tons resulting from the environmental contribution, as internationally assessed and certified, from the Rawson Wind Farm in Chubut.
The environmental initiative developed by Genneia aims at not only improving its projects, ensuring the triple impact of all of its processes, but also encouraging each industry to reduce and offset its emissions of contaminating gases to the atmosphere and driving the energy transition.
The certification and carbon credit issuance are international decontamination mechanisms intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). They were established in 2005 by the Kyoto Protocol as one of the three key mechanisms to reduce the levels of carbon dioxide causing global warming.
“We are proud of supporting IDEA once again and offsetting the Seminar for the fourth consecutive year. To us, the commitment to the energy transition is mandatory and it is important to leave this message to the private sector to maximize this new sustainable business model and fight the climate crisis,” pointed out Gustavo Castagnino, director Corporate, Regulatory Affairs and Sustainability |ESG at Genneia.
Similarly to the IDEA Seminar, Genneia has already voluntarily offset the footprint of other events organized by the IDB, the World Economic Forum, the World Travel & Tourism Council, the Córdoba Open ATP 250, the B Corporations Conference, Argentina Makes an Impact in San Juan, TEDxRíodelaPlata, the Argentine Soccer Cup Final 2021, among other, in addition to playing a leading role in the largest sale of CERs in the history of our country to the company Natura.