Santa Catarina, June 10, 2019 – During celebrations of the environment month, Klabin’s unit in Correia Pinto hosted the 31st edition of the Caiubi Program, which had as central theme the conservation of the soil, water resources and biodiversity.

 

The Program developed by Klabin aims at training elementary and high school teachers and raise awareness of matters related to sustainability and the environment, so that teachers become multipliers of the theme for students and the communities where they operate.

 

The event was split into two days, with talks on Klabin’s social and environmental programs, the importance of biodiversity and water resources conservation and soil sustainability, in addition to workshops, role-playing activities and field trips to stress the topics addressed. Overall, more than 55 teachers of the municipalities where Klabin operates in the state took part in the activities.  

 

Caiubi Program is held in Santa Catarina since 2007 and has brought Klabin closer to the communities in the 40 cities across the state where it has forestry and industrial operations, disseminating to the population the actions carried out by the company favoring sustainable development.

 

Caiubi Program

 

To spread concepts of ecological awareness among teachers in the communities where it operates, Klabin began the Caiubi Program in Paraná in 2001. The project has been run in Santa Catarina since 2007 through a partnership with Departments of Education. Since its creation, 31 editions have taken place, benefitting over 550 teachers of 1,350 schools and 178 thousand students.

 

About Klabin 

Brazil’s largest producer and exporter of packaging paper and the leader in the corrugated board and industrial bag packaging segments, Klabin is the country’s only company offering one-stop solutions in hardwood, softwood and fluff pulp. Founded in 1899, Klabin has 17 industrial units in Brazil and one in Argentina. In Santa Catarina alone, Klabin generates over 5,200 direct and indirect jobs.

 

Klabin is a pioneer in adopting mosaic-based stewardship, which consists of planted forests interspersed with preserved native forests, forming ecological corridors that allow native wildlife to roam their natural habitat while contributing directly to protecting the soil, water and biodiversity. Klabin’s forest area in Santa Catarina covers a total of 135,000 hectares, 68,000 of which are native forests. The company also maintains in Santa Catarina a State Natural Heritage Private Reserve (RPPNE), the Serra da Farofa Complex, which is an area dedicated exclusively to the conservation of biodiversity, academic study and research. The region is home to important headwaters, such as those that flow into the Canoas and Caveiras rivers, as well as to endangered wildlife species.

 

 

Klabin’s entire management is guided by Sustainable Development and, in Santa Catarina, the company develops social and environmental programs, including Growing Up Reading Program, Growing Up Program, Environmental Protectors and Legal Forests Program.

 

 

Klabin also supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is a signatory to the UN Global Compact and the Brazilian Pact to Eradicate Slave Labor, and seeks suppliers and business partners that share its values of ethics, transparency and respect for sustainability principles.

 

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