Sustentabilidade empresarial: o conceito da governança climática aplicação a uma empresa do ramo de petroquímica

Abstract

With vital significance, the greenhouse effect gases (GEG), as carbon dioxide and methane, among others, retain sun heat in the atmosphere. This fact avoids sun radiation from dissipating, without letting the Planet being warm enough to keep right conditions for live existence of Earth. However, mankind activities are increasing concentration of these gases creating intensified greenhouse effect . This, in it turns, has the potential of affect over temperature and is directly related to global warming, which has incurred into significant climatic changes on Earth. Resulting from these processes, plenty of adverse consequences already have effects over humanity. Therefor, consciousness and worried with the results of climate changes, international community, with goal of reducing GEG, agreed, in 1997, the Kyoto Protocol, that stablishes goals for diminish these gases emission and stimulates investing into environmently more sustainable technologies, using the so called Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM). This climatic picture brings, for so, implications not only in the environment, but also socioeconomic. If before, the issue was discussed by scientists and environmentalists, today socioeconomic papers, as Sterns Report, quantify the huge lost resulting from climatic changes. In this aspect, investors search how identify the companies which deal best the risks and opportunities due to the clime. Considering that reality, this essay had as purpose show if the climatic changes are producing interference in companies investing programs. Thru a case study of a petrochemical branch company, was measured the atmospheric emission management adopted in its climatic governability structure. Besides, ware adopted results from other researches of climatic issues, in which stands out the Carbon Disclosure Project, the Brazilian GEG emission inventory and the investments in CDM. The results shown that in the company in study, the climatic variable is already inside its corporative governability structure and concludes that the climatic changes have interfered in directing its investments, been foreseen in its strategic planning. For so, this essay refer to magnitude of the matter boarding that the answer to problem demands efforts of all: society, politicians, businessmen, and so forth; not sufficing attribute to industrial sector all responsibility of mitigating the GEG, because it will not be enough. At last, the commitment of GEG reducing is, above all, a moral obligation. Stemming from the need of achieving a justifiable value in itself, that allow us preserve, in right conditions, the Planet clime to mankind live with quality; assuring this privilege as inheritance to future generations.