The idea of renewable clean energy sparks much debate of how this is possible. Furthermore, what organization would be willing to step up and accept this challenge? ITAIPU Binacional has answered the call and has surpassed some of the wildest expectations in the industry. This company, the world’s largest generator of renewable clean energy, has…
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Location
Paraná, Brazil
Industry
Environmental Services
Legal Structure
Non-Profit
Employees
1,001–10,000
Why we are in business
Our Purpose
How we operate
Our Practices
We strive to operate our business in a way that maximizes benefit to all life impacted, and to share our practices to inspire other companies to do the same.
Purpose-First
Clearly defining your mission and demonstrating your commitment to it through a theory of change that drives your strategy, impact measurements that track your progress, incentives that keep purpose a priority, and/or a legal structure that ensure social and environmental objectives are upheld.
Benevolent
Benefits
Going beyond monetary compensation to provide exceptional care for the people powering your business; including healthy food offerings, extraordinary office amenities, full health coverage, education subsidies, an inspiring work environment, etc.
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Reviving, Educating & Thinking Ahead Reviving, Educating & Thinking Ahead
Itaipu is a company that cares about its employees’ personal fulfillment. It constantly seeks to provide ways that improve employee quality of life. They have a robust Caring for Employees Program that includes: a. Reviving One successful initiative is the Reviving program that has promoted health, sports and citizen participation actions since 1994. The program…
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Water & Waste
Minimizer
Thriving to achieve zero waste through recycling and reusing initiatives, composting and water conservation, and tracking progress towards set reduction targets.
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Cultivating Good Water Cultivating Good Water
The Cultivating Good Water program is based on national and planetary documents and promotes the company’s social-environmental initiatives related to the conservation of natural resources. Its focus is on the quality and quantity of water and on people’s quality of life. The name Cultivating Good Water highlights the idea that, just like we cultivate the…
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Caring Through
Sharing
Caring for mission-aligned causes by generously sharing business resources such as your products and services, meeting space, excess materials, media exposure, company best practices, and employee time and talent.
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Supporting Biodiversity, Our Heritage Supporting Biodiversity, Our Heritage
Itaipu’s concern with the environment comes from the implementation of the plant project. Several biodiversity protection measures were being developed, aiming above all to ensure the perpetuation and genetic diversity of flora and fauna of the Paraná Basin. Itaipu maintains eight biological reserves and sanctuaries located in Brazil and Paraguay. The protected area, which includes…
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Curbing Local Disease Through Medicinal Plants Curbing Local Disease Through Medicinal Plants
When the Medicinal Plants program was created, the first step, as well as other initiatives of Cultivating Good Water, was to seek partnerships with organizations already working with the theme in region, such as universities, laboratories, associations, NGOs and government agencies. Thereafter, we conducted a regional survey about which were the most common diseases and…
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Reforestation Reforestation
Itaipu develops the largest reforestation program ever conducted by a hydroelectric power plant in the world. Since 1979, it has helped plant over 44 million seedlings, equivalent to 100 thousand hectares or 60% of the Iguazu National Park area. Today, an area of less than 2% of the reservoir protection strip awaits reforestation. Of the…
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What we impact
Our Performance
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