{"id":281,"date":"2021-06-23T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T12:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/?p=281"},"modified":"2021-06-24T14:19:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T17:19:44","slug":"pequeno-principe-hospital-offsets-carbon-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pequenoprincipe.org.br\/newsano5\/en\/5\/pequeno-principe-hospital-offsets-carbon-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe Hospital offsets carbon emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe Hospital has become the second health institution in Brazil to neutralize the emission of greenhouse gases (GHG), reaffirming its commitment to the ESG principles (environmental, social and governance issues). A partnership signed between the Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe Complex and the Society for Wildlife Research and Environmental Education (SPVS), celebrating the World Environment Day, on June 5th, will guarantee the compensation of 822 tons of carbon emitted by the Hospital in 2019, the calculation basis for the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The initiative will offset carbon emissions through the protection and management of ten hectares of native forests present in the Waters Natural Reserve, maintained by SPVS in the municipality of Antonina, on the Paran\u00e1 coast. The natural area is part of the Atlantic Forest Great Reserve, the largest continuous remnant of this biome. The project will also contribute to maintaining and increasing local biodiversity and generating other services that are essential to human life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GHG emissions have been identified as one of the main sources of climate change on the planet \u2013 and, according to Health Care Without Harm (HCWH), the health sector represents 4.4% of global emissions. In other words, if the global healthcare sector was a country, it would be the fifth largest polluter of the Earth\u2019s climate. \u201cMuch more than offsetting our emissions, we want to make explicit our commitment to the health of the biosphere, as we have a mission to ensure a legacy of sustainable living for our society. We have a very close relationship with health, and conserving nature is a way of guaranteeing quality of life for the present and future generations, and we will do this through this project,\u201d explains Jos\u00e9 \u00c1lvaro da Silva Carneiro, corporate director of the Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe Complex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The partnership with SPVS took into account the methodology developed by the institution, which consists of a voluntary compensation standard, without generating marketable carbon credits, and has as its conceptual basis the REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) methodology, the concept of nature production and payment programs for ecosystem services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To define the size of the area necessary for compensation, SPVS has a method for measuring and monitoring carbon biomass in its nature reserves on the coast of Paran\u00e1, which estimated that for every one hectare (ten thousand square meters) of Dense Ombrophilous Forest an average of 152.9tC of carbon is offset. Thus, the offsetting is performed through the protection and high-quality management of native forests that already have a consolidated carbon stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the executive director of SPVS, Cl\u00f3vis Borges, \u201cthe proper understanding of the relationship between human activities and dependence on natural resources is still a challenge for most companies around the world\u201d. \u201cFor this reason, pioneer and exemplary partnerships like this one, with the Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe Complex, show themselves to be vectors of change and generators of models of how to promote future, an example to be followed,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sustainability<\/strong>
The carbon offsetting initiative is part of Pequeno Pr\u00edncipe\u2019s strategy to value sustainability. In 2013, when the Hospital became mercury-free, it implemented environmental management focusing on reducing energy and water consumption and also waste generation. \u201cBut we realized that we needed and could do more. We promote recycling of the Hospital\u2019s organic waste. In 2020 alone there were 14 tons that we transformed into organic fertilizer and used the compost in our tea plantation and in our greenhouse, where we keep native and medicinal plants, some of which are endangered. In Curitiba\u2019s North Region, we take care of an eight-hectare forest, an important urban \u2018hot spot\u2019, in the area where we will do our structural expansion,\u201d highlights Carneiro.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fresh herbs of different species, such as lemongrass, lemon balm, mint, and chamomile, with organic fertilizer, resulting from the recycling of residues from the Hospital\u2019s cafeteria, become 100% natural teas that are served to the patients. The initiative managed to reduce the volume of organic waste disposal to the landfill of Curitiba, which contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and was recognized by the Friend of the Environment Award 2020, granted by the S\u00e3o Paulo State Department of Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Atlantic Forest Great Reserve<\/strong>
The Atlantic Forest Great Reserve covers a continuous area of two million hectares in the eastern portion of the state of Paran\u00e1, entering through the Serra do Mar<\/em> and coastal plains into the states of Santa Catarina and S\u00e3o Paulo. It is the largest and best preserved remnant of the Atlantic Forest biome in the world, with the presence of top species such as jaguars, tapirs, eagles, as well as endemic species such as the black-faced lion tamarin and the red-tailed parrot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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