For the third year in a row, the company achieved carbon neutrality for the event.
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Buenos Aires, October 21, 2021. A new edition of the IDEA Seminar (Coloquio de IDEA) took place on October 13, 14, and 15. It is a forum where the most important companies and people in the business and political sphere gather together to discuss about the agreements that Argentina should pursue for a more sustainable future.
Accordingly, Genneia, the leading renewable energy generation company in Argentina, offset the carbon footprint of the latest edition of the seminar with Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) from its clean energy generation plants.
The certification and carbon credit issuance constitute 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. 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.
Under the motto: “Let’s Make Argentina Sustainable,” the 57th IDEA Seminar was held at Centro Costa Salguero from October 13 to 15, 2021. And 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.
“Once again, we assumed a key commitment to environmental protection by offsetting, for the third year in a row, the carbon footprint of the IDEA Seminar. As a social player it is important to leave this message to the private sector about the new sustainable business model and bet on and support the greatest challenge faced by humanity in the future: combatting the climate crisis,” pointed out Gustavo Castagnino, Corporate Affairs and Sustainability Director 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, in addition to playing a leading role in the largest sale of CERs in the history of our country to the company Natura.