Tonnes of CO2eq Compensated
233.710
Project Type
Renewable Biomass
Biome
Savanna Scrubland
Location
Paraíso do Tocantins
Status
Active
Standard
VCS
Millenium Ceramics
The Cerâmica Milenium project is a family business that manufactures various products in the city of Paraíso do Tocantins, in the state of Tocantins. To reduce its environmental impact, the factory implemented a carbon credit project in 2007. With this initiative, the Cerâmica stopped using firewood from the Cerrado and began fueling its kilns solely with renewable biomass. With the project, more than 200 tons of carbon have been avoided, and more than 270 people have benefited.
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With the aim of reducing environmental impact, in 2007, the factory implemented a carbon credit project. With the project, the Ceramics factory stopped extracting wood from the Cerrado and started supplying the kilns only with renewable biomass.
The project, besides providing greenhouse gas reduction, enables investment in improvements in working conditions and generates benefits for the community, through the extra income from selling carbon credits.
In 2008, when the owner, Mr. Ezequiel, identified the interest of girls in the community to play professional soccer. In partnership with a local team, Paraíso Esporte Clube, the company invested and organized a professional women's soccer team, providing an opportunity to practice the sport.
The condition for participation in the team is that the athletes must prove good performance in educational institutions.
Seeing the success of the women's team, which now participates in various championships, including the Copa Brasil, Mr. Ezequiel founded his own soccer team, “Cerâmica Milenium Esporte Clube”, composed only of ceramic workers.
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What are the project SDGs
The project Millenium Ceramics includes 5 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, which are:
GOOD HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. This goal aims to ensure that all people have access to quality health services, promote disease prevention and treatment, and reduce infant and maternal mortality rates. Additionally, it seeks to promote mental and emotional well-being, ensure universal health coverage, and strengthen health systems to address emerging challenges such as non-communicable diseases and pandemics.
AFFORDABLE AND CLEAN ENERGY
Ensure reliable, sustainable, modern, and affordable access to energy for all. This goal aims to ensure that all people have access to reliable, sustainable, and modern energy sources to meet their basic needs such as lighting, heating, transportation, and productive use. This includes promoting access to renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric power, and ensuring that the energy transition is made inclusively and equitably, taking into account the needs of the most vulnerable communities. Additionally, it seeks to improve energy efficiency and expand access to energy services in rural and remote areas.
DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH
Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all. This goal aims to ensure that economic growth is sustainable and inclusive, creating decent jobs and work opportunities for all people. It seeks to achieve full and productive employment and decent work, as well as promote equal opportunities in the labor market, reduce informality, and combat all forms of child labor and forced labor. SDG 8 also encourages the development of policies that support entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth in sustainable sectors.
CLIMATE ACTION
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. This goal aims to address the challenges posed by climate change, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions, adapting to adverse impacts already occurring, and promoting climate resilience. Achieving this goal requires actions at various levels, from local to international, aiming at mitigating emissions, developing adaptation strategies, implementing environmental policies, and mobilizing resources to finance measures to combat climate change. SDG 13 recognizes the urgency of acting to avoid the worst effects of climate change and to protect the environment for future generations.
LIFE ON LAND
Protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss. This goal aims to ensure the conservation and sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, including forests, wetlands, mountains, and drylands, as well as the protection of biodiversity and natural habitats. It seeks to promote sustainable land management practices, restoration of degraded ecosystems, biodiversity conservation, combating desertification and land degradation, and preventing species extinction. SDG 15 recognizes the fundamental role of terrestrial ecosystems in the health of the planet, in mitigating climate change, and in human well-being.