M-real highly commended for climate change disclosure

M-real Corporation Press release on 3 November at 10:35 am
 
M-real Corporation was the second best company in the materials
sector including e.g. forest industry companies in the Carbon
Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI), Nordic Report 2009. CDLI
highlights the companies that provided the most comprehensive
response to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) information request.
 
"Companies recognised in the Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index are
rewarded for high quality responses to CDP, which demonstrate a good
understanding of how climate change is and will continue to impact
their business. Companies which control their risks today, manage
their emissions and seize the opportunities to produce low carbon
goods and services, will be the best placed to prosper in a low
carbon economy of the future," comments Paul Dickinson, Chief
Executive of the Carbon Disclosure Project.
 
"M-real's mission is to develop and offer our customers and end users
sustainable paperboard, paper and pulp applications. We have
considerably reduced the environmental impact of our operations, in
particular by more efficient energy usage. Actions to reduce the
environmental impact are also bringing major cost savings for M-real.
This success in CDP is a significant recognition of the systematic
work we are doing in M-real and shows that we are going to the right
direction," says Mikko Helander, CEO of M-real.
 
M-real has a long tradition of reporting the environmental impacts of
its production. The strengths of the reporting include
comprehensiveness, accuracy and reliability of its calculation
methods. M-real openly reports its environmental and climate impacts
through product-specific Paper Profile declarations available on
M-real's websites and carbon footprint calculations which are
provided at customers' request, for example.
 
CDP is an independent non-profit organisation compiling information
on companies' carbon dioxide emissions as well as risks and
opportunities related to climate change. The CDP report contains
information on companies' targets, operation steering, investments,
and responsibilities, among other things. CDP was established on the
initiative of institutional investors; however, the annually
published results also interest an increasing number of customers and
other interest groups of the reporting companies.
 
More about CDP: www.cdproject.net
 
Further information:
 
Juha Laine, VP, Investor Relations and Communications, tel. +358 10
465 4335
 
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