Sustainability r e p o r t - Sabesp

Good environmentalpracticesThroughout 2009, we developedseveral partnerships with thecommunity and NGOs to thebenefit of the environment.Jaguari nursery, in Vargem.One Million Trees in CantareiraEN13 Conducted in association with the NGOs The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Institutode Pesquisas Ecológicas (IPÊ) in three municipalities in the Bragança Paulista region, theobjective of the project “One Million Trees in Cantareira” is the recovery of the river bankforest around fives dams of the Cantareira producing system, maintaining the quality of thewatersheds responsible for 50 percent of the water consumed in the São Paulo metro area.This initiative, launched in March 2008, is intended also to involve the community in similarpreservation and remediation projects using native vegetation, exploiting the conditions forEN 18 Carbon Offset of the Sustainability ReportThe carbon emissions, direct and indirect, estimated at 12.8 tonnes of CO2-e, resultingfrom the preparation and printing of this report were offset by planting 81 youngAtlantic forest trees. In addition, because we opted to use recycled paper, emissionswere down by 3.3 tonnes of CO2e as compared to what would be issued had we usedwhite paper.foresting and eco-tourism.These partnerships prescribed the plantation of trees of the Atlantic forest and the cerradosavannah biomes, in approximately 1,000 hectares on the margins of the Jaguari-Jacareí,Cachoeira, Atibainha and Paiva Castro dams. In addition to the partnerships with entitiesand businesses, we have the support of the State Environment Department and the localmunicipal governments.Throughout 2009, 522,000 native seedlings were planted in 313 hectares, of which 21hectares (35,000 seedlings) were planted by TNC on the banks of the Cachoeira dams,in the municipality of Piracaia, sponsored by DOW Brasil. The IPÊ (Ecological Researchinstitute) planted, with the support of the National Environment Fund, Banco Itaú and GrupoBimbo, recuperated 24 ha (40,000 seedlings) in the Atibainha dam preservation areas,Nazaré Paulista, and in February 2009 entered into a contract amendment for the plantationof another 18 hectares.104 105