Itaipu Binacional has been publishing its Sustainability Report on the company’s activity in Brazil for thirteen years in a row. The latest report, covering 2014, was published in June 2015 and since 2007 the documents are drawn up according to the Guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) for Sustainability Reporting.
This report was prepared as per the ‘In accordance’ – Core option of G4 version of the GRI Guidelines. The list of reported content (including the set of indicators of the electric utilities sector) and its location in this publication is available on [+] GRI Content Index.
The Social Responsibility Advisory Board is responsible for coordinating the preparation of the document, with the help of employees representing all departments and the three foundations maintained by Itaipu (“Focal Points").
The document is validated by the Boards’ Planning and Coordination advisors, Corporate Planning advisor and the Sustainability Management System coordinator.
Since 2004, Itaipu has been submitting its reports to an independent verification company. The PDF version of the Report was verified by KPMG and information on the assurance procedure is available on page 62.
For further information, suggestions or comments about the Report, please
contact the Social Responsibility Advisory Board by telephone at +55 41
3321-4415 and +55 45 3520-5921 or by email
[+] responsabilidadesocial@itaipu.gov.br.
[G4-29; G4-30; G4-31; G4-32; G4-33;G4-48]
- The actions contained in this Report were conducted between January 1 and December 31, 2015. [G4-28]
- Although the publication provides information and indicators on the performance of Itaipu in Brazil, the economic, governance and energy production are binational, as there is no exclusively national management or accounts. Exceptional cases will be flagged throughout the document.
- The Report mentions some information of the three organizations established by the company: Itaipu-Brazil Foundation of Social Security (Fibra), when addressing pension issues; Technological Park Foundation (FPTI) when it comes to research, innovation and regional development; and Itaiguapy Foundation, when it is related to health offered in the border region. [G4-17]
- For this document, we considered the operations of Itaipu in the plant industrial area and offices located in the cities of Foz do Iguaçu, Santa Helena, Guaíra and Curitiba. The activities conducted in offices in Brasília and São Paulo offices are not relevant from an environmental and social point of view. [G4-9]
- Itaipu’s influence area is the region of the Paraná Watershed 3 (BP3), which has 8,000 km² and more than 1 million inhabitants. It consists of 28 municipalities in Western Paraná and 1 in Mato Grosso do Sul (MS): Altônia, Céu Azul, Diamante do Oeste, Cascavel, Entre Rios do Oeste, Foz do Iguaçu, Guaíra, Itaipulândia, Maripá, Marechal Cândido Rondon, Matelândia, Medianeira, Mercedes, Missal, Mundo Novo (MS), Nova Santa Rosa, Ouro Verde do Oeste, Pato Bragado, Quatro Pontes, Ramilândia, Santa Terezinha do Oeste, Santa Helena, Santa Terezinha de Itaipu, São José das Palmeiras, São Miguel do Iguaçu, São Pedro, Terra Roxa, Toledo and Vera Cruz do Oeste.
- In this document, Itaipu Binacional is also called Itaipu, plant, entity, binational, company and organization.
- “Lake” refers to the plant’s reservoir.
- The definition of “employees” includes people who make up the company’s own staff. As for the term “collaborators”, it includes employees, apprentices, trainees and employees of companies providing outsourced services working at the plant and offices.
- [G4-27] This issue provides a new way to group content, which will be organized on the basis of issues identified as most relevant by stakeholders in the materiality definition process, described on the following page. Itaipu’s approach to address topics and concerns raised through the engagement is described in the text as follows:
- Governance, increased demand for transfer and for greater control (internal and external):
[+] Governance
[+] Governance Structure
[+] Fight against corruption
[+] Access to information - Contribution to the development of areas of influence:
[+] Management approach
[+] Royalties
[+] Social programs and projects developed or supported by Itaipu
[+] Relationship with suppliers - Working conditions:
[+] Management approach
[+] Workforce profile
[+] Career and remuneration
[+] Strike
[+] Diversity and equal opportunities
[+] Professional development
[+] Health and safety at work - Excellence in water management and efficiency in energy production:
[+] Operational performance
[+] Production and economic performance
[+] Dam safety - Power rate:
[+] Production and economic performance
[+] Royalties - Research and innovation:
[+] Management approach
[+] Renewable energy and sustainable mobility
[+] R&D+I activities carried out or supported by Itaipu - Dam safety:
[+] Dam safety - Respect to human rights:
[+] Access to information
[+] Management approach
[+] Diversity and equal opportunities
[+] Professional development
[+] Relationship with suppliers - Biodiversity conservation:
[+] Environmental programs and projects developed or supported by Itaipu
[+] Biodiversity conservation
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG) and climate change:
[+] Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG)