The emission data was validated by BRTÜV audit  in December 2010. Two details are worth mentioning: it includes the Guaíba Unit, which was owned by the company until mid-December of 2009; and the Três Lagoas Unit, which started operating in 2009 and shows the data for the first nine months of its operations.

Initiatives already implemented to reduce GHG emissions are still in process and have therefore not yet produced results. Registration of the projects mentioned last year, such as the two Clean

Development Mechanism (CDM) projects, is yet to be approved by the UN.

• CDM Projects – Composting and Reutilization of exhaust heat.
• Projects for improving the drainage of lime sludge
• Refurbishing of Mill A at the Aracruz Unit: modernization of bleaching process, using more efficient equipment
• Expansion of the GTV biomass boiler at the Jacareí Unit: increasing its biomass burning capacity

Emissions

Because of the nature of its business, based on commercial forest plantations in association with native vegetation restoration and conservation areas, Fibria has a positive balance between its emissions and the carbon sequestered from the atmosphere.

According to Fibria’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory for 2010 (base year 2009), the company sequestered the equivalent of around 25 million tons of carbon through its eucalyptus plantations and native forest reserves. Emissions from the operations of the Aracruz, Três Lagoas, Jacareí and Guaíba (sold in December 2009) Units came to around 2 million tons, on top of the roughly 9 million tons emitted by the burning of biomass to generate electricity. Consequently, for every ton of pulp that it produces, Fibria sequesters 3.17 tons of carbon within its forest areas.

In addition to seeking to control and reduce the sources (equipment and processes) that generate odours, the company maintains an Odour Perception Network (RPO), comprising volunteers in the neighbouring communities who are trained to identify odours and advise the company when such detection is made in the vicinity of the mill. Both the Aracruz and Três Lagoas Units currently have local RPOs, with 36 and 76 volunteers, respectively, who last year made 22 contacts to the company regarding odours. The Aracruz Unit also has an internal RPO, comprising 18 employees who have volunteered to communicate odours detected within the industrial area.