Evidenciação Ambiental: uma análise das informações apresentadas pelas empresas listadas no ICO2 dos setores madeireiro/ papel, limpeza/pessoal e mineração

Abstract

The degradation caused to the environment by the companies which have direct relation with it has increased significantly, forcing those companies, as well as their managers to change their behavior. This has encouraged them to improvetheir environmental performances. The environment accounting emerges to help these companies with actions which can promote sustainable development. One of these actions is to try to minimize the emission of greenhouse effect gases into the atmosphere from the collection of raw material and transportation of products to the delivery of goods to the final customer. The study aimed to determine, by analyzing the annual reports of the companies analyzed, if they were being highlighted data on emissions of greenhouse gases, as well as improvement actions for reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.The present work has concluded that, from the six (06) companies analyzed among the wood, paper and mineral industries, as well as staff and cleaning, listed in the ICO2 of Bovespa, five (05) of them presented information about the GEE, as well as actions which favor the reduction of the emission of the greenhouse effect gases.