KLABIN AND THE AMAZON

We are Brazil’s largest paper producer and exporter, besides producing pulp (hardwood, softwood and fluff), and our forests are the foundation of our existence.  Though our entire pulp and paper production originates from cultivated and certified forests in Paraná, Santa Catarina and São Paulo, which are thousands of kilometers away from the Amazon, the struggle to preserve Brazil's natural resources is very important for us. 

This stance is part of our engagement and commitment to the sustainable development agenda and underscores our belief in the practices that must be fundamental for the conservation of the Amazon. We need leaders engaged in protecting the Amazon, while also reconciling the preservation of indigenous peoples and communities living there with the economic development of Brazil. In this regard, companies and institutions can help authorities to expand this debate.

That’s why, in July this year we joined industry entities and other major companies in addressing a letter to the Vice President of Brazil, Hamilton Mourão, who is also chairman of the National Legal Amazon Council, seeking an "inflexible and sweeping" combat of illegal deforestation in the Amazon and other biomes. After all, #allforestsmatter.

The manifesto, led by the Brazilian Business Council for Sustainable Development (CEBDS), was signed by Klabin, the Brazilian Tree Industry (Ibá),  Brazilian Agribusiness Association (Abag), Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove), as well as 38 Brazilian and foreign companies.