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SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY: THE PATH TO
TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT
Since the 20 century, the economic and social development has been based on
the growing use of non-renewable fossil fuels such as oil byproducts, mineral
coal and natural gas. The impact assessment of this uncontrolled environmental
progress was, many times limited, to the study of researches and scientists, with
no practical consequences.
Now, with evident signs of global warming such as changes in the average
temperature of the planet, the acceleration of icecap melting, as well as more
violent and striking storms, floods and droughts, the mobilization of everyone
has become imperative and immediate: citizens, communities, nations,
governments, entities and companies as well as the transportation sector, in
order to minimize the severe ongoing climate changes.
In view of this scenario, the National Confederation of Transport (CNT)
launches DESPOLUIR, the transportation environmental program, which has
the objective of involving businessmen from the sector, transporting companies,
autonomous truck drivers, taxi drivers and society, in the protection of the
environment, to work together in order to build a truly sustainable development.
With , the Brazilian transportation sector takes its share of
responsibility in the construction of a more environmentally balanced world,
promoting a series of actions to meet its goal.
This is the path that CNT, the major transportation representative in the country,
reinforces with the launch of the transportation environmental program, which
will certainly go beyond the most optimistic expectations, due to the full support
of the sector and the Brazilian society in regards to the initiative.
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DESPOLUIR
CNT REPRESENTATIVITY
AT THE SERVICE OF A BETTER FUTURE
CNT is an entity, which represents one of the most important sectors of the
domestic economy. Currently, CNT comprises 31 confederations, 348 trade
unions, 17 national associations and 25 regional associations. Today, the sector
counts on 146 thousand transportation companies, and 733 thousand
autonomous transporters, coming to a total of 2.5 million workers, who account
for approximately 6.5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Attending the whole country, CNT offers programs, projects and courses with
the objective of increasing productivity and service quality for the
transportation sector, reducing costs, promoting technological development
and modernizing corporate, operating and environmental management.
Autonomous transporters, taxi drivers, workers of the sector and their family
members count with the support of two institutions of the CNT system: the
Social Service of Transport (SEST), and the National Transport Training
Service (SENAT).
There are more than 120 units of SEST/SENAT throughout Brazil where
workers from the transportation sector take professional training courses,
refresher courses, receive medical and dental care and take part in sports,
recreation and cultural activities, aimed at providing a better life quality to
workers and their family members.
Counting with this structure on a national level, and due to the great credibility
achieved in several studies, projects and actions carried out, CNT created
, which has the goal of creating projects and activities to benefit the
wholecountry in terms of environmentalmanagement in the transportationsector.
CNT has always been concerned about the impact of transportation activities to
the environment, seeking to reduce its effects. Therefore is the
result of the accumulated experience of the entity in the last 10 years.
DESPOLUIR
DESPOLUIR
FOR CNT, THE INVESTMENT IN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
MEANS THE STRENGHTENING OF THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR
Currently, the environmental issue has been given a dimension that exceeds theconcern of individuals, groups or countries, requiring commitments and actionson a global level in the search to create sustainable development.
The consequences of the increase in atmospheric pollution as well as climatechanges can already be felt in different parts of the world, demanding immediateactions of governments as well as social and national agents.
Additionally, for a market that is more and more globalized and competitive thesocial-environmental responsibility has become a fundamental tool for any kindof business, especially for the transportation sector.
With this new vision, which seeks to adopt environmentally correct forms ofgrowth, CNT is willing to invest even more to improve environmentalmanagement for the transportation sector.
With the Program, CNT intends to develop and implementtechnologies and management models for the rational use of natural resources.It also wants to make businessmen from the transportation sector, autonomoustruck drivers, taxi drivers, workers of the sector, commercial partners andtransportation users aware of the importance of environmental protection.
The incentive of the CNT system to environmental management reinforces therole of businessmen and workers of the transportation sector to jointly sharesocial-economic development and environmental protection.
As well as direct benefits to the environment and the population, willalso provide workers with cost reduction, improvement in operating efficiency, abetter relationship with regulating agencies, new business opportunities with thedevelopmentofcarboncreditprojectsandtheadoptionofcleantechnologies.
Environmental management actions implemented by transportation companieswill identify environmental impacts, according to the types of facilities, processes,products and services and carry out preventive actions to eliminate or reduce theseimpacts, encouraging educational actions andenvironmental awareness.
DESPOLUIR
DESPOLUIR
DESPOLUIR
DESPOLUIR IS BASED ON
TWO GROUPS OF PROJECTS
GROUP A- Transportation, geared at improving the environmental
performance of the sector, GROUP B- Citizenship for the Environment, aimed
at turning agents of the sector: businessmen, transportation workers,
autonomous truck drivers, taxi drivers into promoters of environmental
education for the whole society, especially for transportation users.
Because of its direct intervention to improve the environment, the
Program, stands out amongst major national social actions and opens a new
chapter in the history of the transportation sector in regards to environmental
protection and life quality for Brazil and the planet.
DESPOLUIR
GROUP A
TRANSPORTATION PROJECT
PROJECT I
REDUCTION IN THE EMISSION OF POLLUTANTS BY VEHICLES
The objective is to promote the reduction of atmospheric pollutants emitted by
vehicles, contributing to society in order to improve air quality and the rational
use of fuels.
- Expand the environmental regularization of fleet
PATHS OFSUSTAINABILITY
CNT:
Equipped 54 vehicles to measure the emission of pollutants;
Computerized data to perform result analysis;
Created permanent assistance posts in places with great concentration ofautonomous truck drivers and taxi drivers;
Will promote partnerships with environmental agencies in order tostrengthen actions promoted by this project;
Will encourage businessmen from the sector, who follow environmentalrules related to the emission of vehicle pollutants;
Will encourage the development of MDL projects- Mechanisms of CleanDevelopment;
Will promote, within the transportation sector, business opportunitiescreated by the international market of carbon credit, according to theKyoto Protocol;
Will promote the participation of credit companies to fund projects offleet change or fuel replacement, offering carbon credits as a guaranteefor financing;
Will establish partnership with public agencies, especially Municipalitiesto encourage the use of collective transportation instead of individualtransportation: cars and motorcycles;
Will create partnerships with public and private institutions to improvewaterways and railways.
PROJECT II
ENCOURAGING THE USE OF CLEAN
ENERGY BY THE TRANSPORTATION SECTOR
The objective is to reduce the emission of pollutants by using biofuels, natural
gas, and electric energy as well as other environmentally adequate fuels.
Promote the use of clean energy by transportation companies, autonomous truck
drivers and taxi drivers.
PATHS OFSUSTAINABILITY
CNT will:
Carry out, in partnership with specialized institutions, studies about theproduction of clean energy, its risks, advantages, forms of use andopportunities for the transportation sector;
Develop campaigns to encourage the use of biofuels and otherenvironmentally adequate fuels.
PROJECT III
IMPROVEMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
IN COMPANIES, GARAGES AND TRANSPORTATION TERMINALS
The objective is to promote environmental management as an integrating part of the
strategyof transportationcompanies.Additionally, toencouragevoluntary initiatives
ofcertification,regulationandtrainingintheareaofenvironmentalmanagement.
Structure and encourage the implementation and follow up of the
Program.
DESPOLUIR
PATHS OFSUSTAINABILITY
CNT will:
Consolidate and strengthen the representation of CNT at Envionment National
Concil (CONAMA) and other environmental forums, which are formulators
and promoters of environmental management policies;
Take part in/promote the organization of seminars, workshops and lectures
aimed at training workers from the environmental area.
Raise awareness about the strategic importance of social-environmental
responsibilities in the transportation sector.
CNT will:
Create manuals, which offer companies advice about the adoption of adequate
daily procedures of activities, towards competitiveness and social-
environmental responsibilities;
Promote lectures for businessmen and workers related to roadways, waterways
and railroads about the importance to improve environmental management;
Graduate environmental managers by means of Lato Sensu post-graduate
courses in Environmental Transportation Management, in partnership with IDT
School of Transportation;
Add, to periodical research carried out by CNT, items of evaluation regarding
environmental issues;
Map the need of partnerships with residue exchanging or residue recycling
companies;
Offer technical support to transportation companies, autonomous truck drivers
andtaxidriversforfuelmanagementandreductionofpollutantemission.
CNT will:
Promote training courses regarding the rational use of fuels and lubricants, tank
draining and other procedures in companies;
Carry out technical visits to companies to verify tanking systems, measuring of
fuel pumps, vehicles and to evaluate vehicles' quality;
Encourage companies to plant trees to neutralize the emission of carbonic gas,
resulting from transportation activities.
CNT will:
Establish partnerships with specialized companies to plan and carry out actions,
which contribute to neutralize the emission of carbonic gas from each
transportation activity;
Promote lectures to businessmen of the sector, stressing the advantages and the
importance of projects of carbonic gas neutralization;
Encourage and help the implementation of norms ISO 14.000 in
transportation companies, providing technical support, especially to
micro and small companies of the sector.
CNT will:
Carry out studies to show economic advantages of investment in environmental
management;
Promote forms of implementation of norms ISO 14.000;
Prepare a manual for environmental management for the sector, offering
technical support to businessmen for the implementation of ISO 14.000.
Create the award for Excellence in Environmental Management in
Transportation in order to encourage more companies to adopt the social-
environmental responsibility.
CNT will:
Value transportation companies, which contribute to improve the
environmental quality;
Promote best practices of corporate social-environmental management.
GROUP B
CITIZENSHIP FOR THE
ENVIRONMENT PROJECT
TAXI DRIVER, A FRIEND OF THE ENVIRONMENT
PROJECT IV
The objective of the project is to promote environmental and ecological
education to taxi drivers, to turn them into true messengers and promoters of
environmental and ecological education for the whole society, especially
transportation users.
Turn taxi drivers into environmental educators, contributing to
awareness-raising of the whole society towards the importance of
environmental protection.
PATHS TO MOBILIZATION
CNT will:
Encourage the role of the taxi driver as information promoter regarding
environmental protection and good practices for the environment, for example,
by encouraging costumers to plant trees.
Promote the course: “Taxi driver, a friend of the environment”;
Distribute informative and educational material to taxi drivers and taxis users
regarding protection of the environment.
Create a contest to award taxi drivers who encourage environmental protection.
PROJECT V
TRUCK DRIVER, A FRIEND OF THE ENVIRONMENT
This objective of this project is to promote environmental and ecological
education for truck drivers, preparing them to operate as messengers of good
environmental practices and watchers of environmental protection.
Turn truck drivers into environmental watchers, encouraging their
effective participation in the protection of the environment.
PATHS TO MOBILIZATION
CNT:
Offers a free telephone number (08007282891) to receive notifications and forward
reports tocompetentauthorities, regardingenvironmentalcrimesanywhereinBrazil;
Will promote the course: “Truck driver, a friend of the environment”, with the
distribution of informative and educational material;
Willincludeenvironmentaleducationintrainingcoursesforautonomoustruckdrivers;
Will encourage the role of the truck driver as a watcher, to report burnings close
to roads and environmental crimes such as river pollution and wild animals,
plant and wood trafficking;
Will establish partnerships with environmental agencies to make actions of
truck drivers, who act as watchers, more effective.
PROJECT VI
TRANSPORTATION WORKERS, FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT
This project has the objective to promote environmental and ecological
education for transportation workers, turning them into messengers and
promoters of good environmental practices.
Turn transportation workers into environmental educators, contributing
to awareness-raising in the transportation sector and society as a whole,
regarding the importance of environmental protection.
CNT will:
Promote the course “Transportation workers, friends of the environment”, with
the distribution of informative and educational material;
Create a contest to award transportation workers who most encourage
environmental protection.
PATHS TO MOBILIZATION
PATHS OFINFORMATION
In order to achieve the objectives of Group B “Citizenship for the
Environment”, another program actions have been created:
Promote environmental actions for the Program, in order to
increase visibility of the topic “transportation and the environment” and
give subsidies to the sector and to society for the development of new
environmental projects.
DESPOLUIR
CNT will:
Release information about transportation and the environment in CNT media;
Articulate media actions to sensitize the transportation sector and society about
the importance of environmental protection;
Create access channels to environmental information, which can be used in the
production of programs, promotion of news and debates: Transporte Atual
Magazine from CNT, mass radio station, Rádio web Transporte Brasil from CNT,
regional committees of SEST/SENAT,websites andPress Services fromCNT;
Identify and release successful experiences regarding transportation and the
environment such as articles from Transporte Atual Magazine from CNT and
traveling photo exhibitions;
Support the creation of plans and programs of communication in federations,
trade unions and associations of the sector;
Encourage the collection and promotion of information regarding
environmental experiences in federations, trade unions, associations and
companies of the sector;
Include in the CNT Journalism the category “Environment”, and in the
CNT of Academic Production Award the category “Transportation and the
Environment”;
Create advertising campaigns about environmental education in the
transportation area;
Award
Elaborate an annual program of seminars with national and international
acclaimed lecturers as well as technical courses for businessmen and workers of
the transportation sector.
Create the DESPOLUIR portal on the internet, in order to promote
environmental awareness-raising for the whole transportation sector and
society as a whole by means of sharing knowledge about the issue.
CNT will:
Bring information and experience to the sector and to society, successful
experiences, interviews, news, forums, links, on-line courses,
bibliographies etc…
TRANSPORTATION ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM